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Yeah, I guess it is hard. And I agree that empathy is neccessary. Maybe we should hold a "deconvert a christian" competition. Everyone goes out and finds christians, tries to deconvert them in a reproducible way, and then submits some evidence that they succeeded.
I've heard that the easiest way to do this is to be very attractive, and then pick a member of the opposite sex and then ... well you get the idea. We'd have to ban that.
Even deconverting a global warming skeptic or a creationist would be something of an achievement.
That might not be sufficient. The amount of effort to change a believe is often proportional to the strength of the belief after the change.
You do not want someone to react to your statements with 'yes, you are right, whatever you say honey'.
Also it is not particularly rational to have more people following beliefs that are currently in fashion. Communist countries had high numbers of atheists, but for what prize.