Rationalists should attempt to destroy religion.
Most people in the world believe that the creator of the universe wrote or "inspired" one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we should live. The diversity and profundity of these claims range from banal proclamations on the procedure of rituals to divisive and irreconcilable claims about the pleasures that await martyrs in paradise. Despite the ecumenical efforts of many well-intentioned and loving p...
God is not real.
I will demonstrate that it is logically impossible for a God to exist if that God is defined as being both omniscient and omnipotent. In the same way that married bachelors and square circles cannot exist a God that is claimed to be both omniscient and omnipotent cannot exist. It's an old argument, but it should still be pretty fun to debate. ============== A quick syllogism: ============== 1. Anything with logically incompatible properties cannot exist. (This is not arguable) 2. Any Go...
Is the Christian God a gracious and just God?
Many people say He isn't because He sends people to Hell. Some say He IS because He sends people to Hell....
Christian and being Gay
Christians argue that the Bible says gays are going to hell. But when they say we are sinning, they sin themselves; by saying we're sinning their judging, Matt 7:1, 2 says, "Judge not that you be not judged. 2. For with what judgment you judge it will be judged unto you." So if they call us the fg word or gays and say that we're sinning, they will be judged as fgs or gays as well. In the four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, I cannot find one single passage in which Jesus condemned homosex...
Jesus Christ Never Existed
Jesus Christ, contrary to popular public opinion, never existed. First to define who Jesus Christ was according to the "Holy Bible": Jesus Christ is a central figure in Christianity who supposedly lived from around 4 B.C. to 30 A.D. He was a prophet of Judaism who many believed was the Messiah, the one who would deliver the Jews to salvation. He began a new religious movement, called his ministry, that was composed of 12 disciples and other followers. He was sentenced to death by the Jewish...
There is No God
There is not a thread of evidence that a god has ever existed, and it is physically impossible for a god to exist....
Children shouldn't be pressured or forced to accept their parents' religion
I stand in affirmation. Children should get to choose for themselves which religion, or none at all, that they wish to participate in. Parents should expose children to all different types of faith and ultimately let the kids decide instead of the parents deciding. Let's just say hypothetically that Christianity is the one true faith. Then the Christian parents seem to have done the right thing in forcing their kids to be Christian. They just saved the kids and ensured their place in hea...
Biblical descriptions of the nature of the Christian God and free will are contradictory.
I'm thinking of running this as a stock Parli case, so I thought I'd give it a test run. The proposition for offer is that the concepts of the nature of God and the mechanics of free will as described in the Bible are contradictory. The existence of God or free will are considered opposing premises and are not up for dispute themselves; rather, Con must prove that the two are logically compatible. God is classically described as an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving being that creat...
Jesus the Christ is Probaby the Result of Creative Writing.
The proposition on offer is that Jesus the Christ is probably the result of creative writing. By way of clarification, the proposition is NOT that Jesus the Nazarene did not exist, but rather that the writers of the New Testament exaggerated the life of Jesus the Nazarene, added components of mythology, and used pieces of the Old Testament to piece together a picture of Jesus that was in line with their personal preferences. There are several notions that support this claim: 1) Jesus never...
The Problem of Evil can be refutted effectivley.
Problem of Evil-a philosophical argument against the existence of a God who is all-present, all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving based on the premise that if such a God existed the amount of evil and suffering in this world would be significantly less if not non-existent. I will allow my opponent to establish his/her own version of the problem of evil in round one, and then I will publish a theodicy in round one. Sources are insignificant, the only source I will be using is my mind an...