95% of people on the planet believe in some form of deity. Guess they are all wrong right.
80 comments
Get them to agree on ANYTHING about this deity, beyond what is necessary to say about it that'll silence questions by the children of the church (it watches everything you do and it'll punish you if you keep asking me that), and I'll start listening.
Hm, not all religions involve a god.
1] 95%? Where did all those Buddhists go, then?? Oh, wait, you made that statistic up.
2] An idea's popularity does not affect its validity. For example: at one point, most people thought the earth was flat.
95% is actually probably about right...
Of course, this guy doesn't realize that his key phrase is "some form of deity", meaning that those 95% don't actually agree on who to worship or why or in what format.
At least the 5% that don't believe in any form of deity are all in agreement about it.
"95% of people on the planet believe in some form of deity"
Surely that can't be right? I'd have thought the majority of the world's population would be some form of Buddhist. Now, there are different types of Buddhism, some of which have deities, heaven, hell etc but most forms don't have deities. At least not in the Western idea of the word.
As mentioned majority of people thought the earth was flat. The majority of people also believed the earth was the center of the universe, slavery was an acceptable practice, blacks and women were not equal and didn't deserve the same rights, it was always the woman's fault if no children were conceived or if the sex of a baby was not the one that was wanted.
At one time, more than 95% of people on the planet believed that said planet is flat. They were all wrong.
Truth isn't determined by a popularity contest.
"95% of people on the planet believe in some form of deity. Guess they are all wrong right."
That's what the evidence--or lack thereof--suggests so, yes. Now go away.
Yep. So are you. 95 is higher than what I thought the actual number was, considering Buddhism doesn't have a god.
Even then, you must consider that they all believe in different kinds of gods, so no matter who's right, a good number, I daresay, the majority of you are going to be wrong.
They're wrong in the sense that there is no god and quite probably never was. However, there is or could be a biological imperative for humans as a species to want to believe in something beyond their understanding, so in that sense, they're just following a natural instinct. They're still wrong, but they're less wrong than they could be.
95% of the people on the planet have no idea how to send a rocket to the moon, or build a computer, or do brain surgery. But as long as we have the other five percent, we will be OK.
“95% of people on the planet believe in some form of deity. Guess they are all wrong right.”
Is that really hard to imagine?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
