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Thread #131699   Message #3023618
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
04-Nov-10 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
No Willie, I am not willing to revise down. The percentage with some sort of "God Delusion" of people, all the people who have ever lived, is very high. Your version of Atheism is a fairly recent idea, going back only a few hundred years.

And I am not claiming indifferent people as my own. I am saying that well more than 90% of people who have ever lived have lived in such a way as to disprove the argument that believing in what he thinks is not rational is delusional.

But lets, not dwell on that, saying that each one of 300 million protestants, 1.2 billion Catholics, or 1.5 Billion Muslims is DELUSIONAL is still a "fantastic claim" it seems that way to me.

I'm with you on the Sunday and Bishops things. I believe in separating Church and government and I don't believe in forcing my religious values on others. If someone want to work on Sunday or shop or dine out on Sunday, I think they should have that right.

So if you are not saying that religious belief is delusional, then you and I have reached an accord.