hairyfigment comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Thomas 14 June 2012 08:26:24PM *  0 points [-]

My atheism toward Christian God (or any other) is very like my skepticism toward the Little Red Riding Hood adventure.

The same thing.

10^-50.

Comment author: Bakkot 14 June 2012 09:36:08PM 6 points [-]

"Lots of people believe it" is evidence for it being true, just weak evidence.

Comment author: hairyfigment 15 June 2012 01:44:23AM 0 points [-]

"Some people believe it" counts as evidence. But if you think the spread of Christianity seems likely to happen without any deities (see this possible explanation) then the vast majority of the people who've professed belief in it do not constitute any additional evidence. Some of those living after their countries dispensed with heresy/blasphemy laws seem like exceptions.