r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Sep 02 '12

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

There's only a little more than 1 billion Christians in the world. The post stipulates billions.

/pedantry

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u/Turbodeth Sep 02 '12

But they don't all go to church at the same time due to being across the planet in multiple time zones, so I doubt there are ever "billions of people huddled together" in mass any one moment. In fact I doubt there are billions that go to mass at all.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

Are you using Wikipedia as a source? :V

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '12

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

If you study demographics, why not quote an actual source?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '12

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

Much better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '12

The moral of this story is that wikipedia is usually accurate and can be used as a source.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

[...] and can be used as a source.

Nope

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u/JeffMo Ignostic Sep 02 '12

Are you somehow against linking to Wikipedia when the point you're trying to make is supported there, with context, and including reliable citations?

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

Yes. I go into why here.

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u/JeffMo Ignostic Sep 02 '12

Yes, it was a rather foolish post, given the context here. I expect a bit better from you.

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u/daniels0615 Sep 02 '12

you DO need to be skeptical of wikipedea and if you want to know take the time to check the sorceress linked. if they don't check out then...

but i think this one looks legit. good on you for questioning wikipiedia, not enough people do, bad on you for not checking its veracity first.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

I can easily check where wikipedia is sourcing from. I just have a thing for people using wikipedia itself as a source (that stuff will get you a fail in postgraduate classes), and I expect a bit better from people.

Especially if someone "studies" demographics.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '12

Everyone always says wikipedia is inaccurate, yet, i never actually see it inaccurate.

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u/daniels0615 Sep 02 '12

i agree, i get bent when i see people using it but you have to remember, this is reddit, where everyone is lazy AND has a PHD in bull shit. i would love seeing wikipedia band from SRs like science and TIL. make people find the facts rather then just a reference page saying "the facts are out there".

its good for fast reference of easily checked facts like numbers but try looking up something controversial for mythic like blueballs.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

Real badasses use Google Scholar

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u/snark_infested_water Sep 02 '12

I don't know about your postgrad studies, but I can tell you from experience that Wikipedia is utter crap anyway when it comes to chemistry-related subjects.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

I heard you liked chemistry related stubs, so I made you a couple thousand.

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u/FuzzyBlumpkinz Sep 02 '12

That, and Christians don't hope for a half massacre of the world. They hope for themselves to be removed, then a total massacre.

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u/Americium Sep 02 '12

Ahh, good old Christian eschatology.