Then you have a strange definition of "credulity", and certainly a naive view
of human nature. Consider: millions of people throughout history have given
their life for one religious belief or another. Whether for Hinduism,
Christianity,
Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Native American beliefs, etc., people have
believed so strongly
that they were willing to suffer death and even extreme torture to uphold their
beliefs. Now, by your logic, since all of these people so fanatically
believed in
their religion, then all of them must be entirely true.
Is that possible? Is it possible for every human religion to be the literal
truth?
>And what else but the conviction born of direct experience could have kept
>them all preaching in the face of opposition from their own religious leaders
>and the might of Imperial Rome?
>
>All one need do is apply reason to the real world and the case becomes
>overwhelming.
>
>Jim
>
>
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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.