I saw a werewolf once. I was a very young kid and I stumbled and fell down the stairs. After I reached the bottom, I looked across the basement and saw a werewolf sticking its head from a doorway, then it disappeared.
I'm not lying, this actually happened. That is what I saw in a brief moment.
According to Lion IRC, werewolves are real.
How does your personal experience of werewolves equate to
a claim by me about werewolves?
I have no personal experience of werewolves.
The only evidence I have for the existence of werewolves is
your firsthand account.
Suppose others made similar claims of firsthand experience of werewolves. That would be MORE evidence.
Suppose I have no evidence to the contrary and no evidence that you are prone to lying. What should I think?
Should I persist with the claim that there's no reason to think werewolves exist?
I and others have personal experiences of werewolves.
According to your own arguments, you should therefore accept the claim that werewolves are real.
If you wish to argue that we should believe your religious claims but not my werewolf claims because more people believed in your religious claims than believe in werewolves, then that would mean that you should also believe that Islam and Hinduism are true.
If you think we should reject the claims about werewolves because some of those who claim werewolves are real are known to be liars, then you should find Christianity to be false.
At what point does my uber skepticism become unreasonable if I keep on saying "that's not evidence!" irrespective of the number of people who claim they saw a werewolf?
If the number of claimants makes a claim true, then you must decide that Islam and Hinduism are true.
But the Bible claims to represent the one and only true religion, so if the number of claimants makes something true, them that means that the Bible is definitely false.
So you can stick to your argument that the number of claimants makes a claim true, in which case you have to admit that Christianity is false, or you can withdraw your argument and insist that there personal experiences of Jesus is not different from the personal experience of werewolves.
Sooner or later my open-mindedness to the possibilty of werewolves would start to be challenged and people would rightly start to wonder if I had some ulterior motive for disbelieving all/any evidence which pointed to the possibility that werewolves exist.
Motives don't matter. What matters is the quality of the evidence presented. Personal experience is simply not valid evidence. It is not valid evidence for werewolves, nor Islam, nor Hinduism, nor your religion, nor anything else.
Eventually my persistent denial of reported werewolf sightings/experiences would start to look like an unwarranted dogmatic belief that there is no such thing as werewolves. (Much like the atheist who asserts that there is no God/gods.)
No, your denial of werewolves is entirely reasonable given the lack of valid evidence for werewolves.
Do you honestly think it is unreasonable to not accept the claims that werewolves are real?