At the end of the
Subjective Evidence of Gods thread a rather off-topic discussion regarding religious conversions started up. Chuck77 seems intent on the idea that hordes of Moslems are converting to Christianity. He also seems to think that the reverse (i.e. Christians converting to Islam) is a rarity. In this thread I would like to ask two questions:
1) What is the actual evidence regarding inter-faith conversions? Are there any reliable statistics on such things?
2) More importantly as far as I am concerned - Why does anyone think this matters? What does it tell us about the relative worth of different religions if people are converting from one to another?
Personally I have no frikkin idea who is converting from what to what. But I deeply suspect most of the main religions will be claiming converts in some sort of subjective pique of propaganda.
And as for
why people convert - Well a myriad of reasons might make one faith more appealing than another to any given individual. But any suggestion that it has to do with the truth of one religion over another is, in the absence of any other evidence, surely just the fallacy of
argumentum ad populum is it not?
So - Who is converting from what to what and why on Earth does anyone think it matters?
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.
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