re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....

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How one comes to know an idea has nothing to do with whether or not the idea is true or not.

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Of course not, but it has everything to do with how objectively one analyzes the idea in question.

The bottom line is that Christians (and all religious people who claim exclusivity) simply do not apply the same criteria to their faith as they do to others when deciding what is true and what isn't. This is largely due to the fact that religion is a central part of almost every society on earth and kids are taught from an early age that their faith is true. The young, developing mind is biologically programmed to favor ideas taught to them by those closest to them, because it is vital for survival. The child who doesnt listen to their mother about wandering off into the woods at night is less likely to mature and propogate their genes. For the same reasons, our minds develop believing in the ideas put into our heads as children and are empirically shown to be the toughest ideas to shale in adulthood.

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Not to mention there are many that did not grow up in the Christian religion that came to it later in life rendering your seemingly absolute statement not only irrelevant but false.

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The numbers are HEAVILY skewed however. Even those who come to believe in Christianity later in life were statistically likely to have been raised in a Christian home or, at the very least, a society where Christianity dominated. It is no coincidence that adult onset conversions almost always involve the faith most familiar to the individual in question.

The number of Christian converts who were never exposed to Christianity as children in any significant form are a very, very small minority of believers.