Saturday, July 5, 2014

Numbers Schmumbers Never Let Them Get In The Way of a Bad Argument

Have you noticed that whenever atheists* talk about issues of reproductive freedom, gender equality that they all seem to believe that it's a matter of Christians discriminating against non-Christians when it is a near mathematical certainty that it is a matter of bigots discriminating against groups, the majority of whom are almost certainly Christians?    In fact, it's more likely that a woman is going to belong to a religious group, than men are.




And that in most religions, women outnumber men.

You can see in the graph at the link that "unaffliated" (a group which Pews' definition places me in) had the strongest disparity favoring men over women of any group except Hindus.

Somehow, a line of argument that begins by ignoring that fact and insulting a majority of women or, even if not insulting them, ignoring their numbers and strength is rather self-defeating.  But, as I've been pointing out, that kind of thing is done regularly on the anti-religious leftish side of things.

*  Well, it's not just atheists,  "Pagans" and a number of others do the same thing.  But it seems to mostly be an atheist thing.



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