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

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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.