You'd have to provide some data first, as you made the original claim. 🤷 You don't seem to understand basic terms: Theist = Someone who believes in the existence of a deity - no organised religion required. A-Theist = Someone who doesn't. (the "A" being a negation operator)
So you don’t have a link to data? Then I’ll have to treat that as just your opinion then… For data on my claim you may find No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie, Sapiens by Yuval Harari, The Demon-Haunted world by Carl Sagan, Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, and
You made the original claim: "A claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
Did you just not read the rest of the post? LOL
Point out some evidence then?
Are you just not able to read the rest of the post where I listed 5 books, and their authors? That’s the evidence to get you started…
Books are not evidence - at very best they are secondary sources, but more importantly, nowhere have you demonstrated any of them back your assertion. You would need at the very least, to highlight quotes, or better yet, their sources. 🤷
History books and science books are evidence, and provide all the things you are asking for. I’m not going to read them for you, you can do your own due diligence. That was just to get you started, because you seem to lack a lot of baseline knowledge on religion and religious history.
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Combating Cult Mind Control by Dr. Steven Hassan, very interesting to your research. Religion and organized religion aren’t the exact same thing. Theism and religion are synonyms. Belief is all that’s required to be a theist, or religious. Intensity of worship may vary.
No. Words have definitions. "Theism" & "Religion" are different things.
The fact that there are non-theistic religions & theists who don’t belong to a religion means that while there is significant overlap, they are distinct concepts& not synonymous. 🤷
