Christianity

I do not intend to narrow down my debates to a particular category, but would prefer to argue points solidified under the topic of Christianity. In these contain; existence of God, morality of Christianity, effect on society, the Bible etc. I wish to debate topics under the category of the title of the debate, I apologize for not making this clear previously. Now that this is resolved, I would like to move on to my main arguments. Arguments: Morality of Christianity: Claims have been made that; without God, or religion, humans wouldn’t have morals, meaning or purpose. That only a God can give us morality or purpose in the world. I will show in this argument, the ‘true morality’ of God, or Christianity. "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. " Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. " (Leviticus 20:13 NAB) So far Christianity wants all gays killed. "If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. " (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB) Now Christianity says to murder your family if they believe something other than Christianity "When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. " (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB) "However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. " (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT) Christianity believes that people should be regarded as property and condones slavery. "Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. " (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB) God will help us rape women. “As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. ” Deuteronomy 20:10-14 Step by step instructions on how to pillage a village. These are just a few evil verses from the Bible that I cited. I would cite more, but I believe I have made my point clear. The very idea that we get our morals from this God is very untrue. This thus concludes my argument on the true morality of Christianity. I await your response to this argument. God Cannot Exist: In this section I will address multiple points portrayed in paragraphs on how God can’t exist. "I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it, because we need them. " Bill Nye. I agree that Christianity is completely inconsistent with everything we know about the universe because God violates most of the laws of the universe. God is a spirit, as it says in the Bible, and he has no physical existence. He is not made of matter; therefore he has to exist in light, sound or heat. But obviously he has to think, in order to think he has to have a brain, but if he has no physical form he can’t have a brain, therefore can’t exist. In the Bible it says that God created everything. God is supposed to be a perfect omniscient being. So if he is perfect, he cannot create imperfect things, like let’s say cancer. I hope we all agree that cancer isn’t perfect; it is a horrible disease that only causes grief and disparity across the entire planet. So why did our loving God create such evil and imperfect things? He can’t create imperfect things like cancer because he is perfect, therefore not real. According to the Bible, the universe is 6,000 years old. “the Bible indicates that the universe is about 6,000 years old. For those who claim to believe the Bible, this difference alone should be sufficient reason to reject the big bang. ” answersingenisis. org. So the Bible says that from the time that God created the Universe in Genesis, to 2014 A. D. , is roughly 6,000 years. This obviously isn’t true since it directly defies facts yet again, because it is a fact that the universe is roughly 14 billion years old, therefore not real. God is omniscient; knows everything, in the past, present, and future. If God knew everything in the future, then how did he not know that Adam and Eve would eat from the Tree of Knowledge? Or even better yet, why did he create it in the first place? How did he not know that life would become evil and that he would have to kill everything in Noah’s flood? Because he is not real. The definition of prove is: “the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact” Merriam-Webster. I have proven that God can’t exist through scientific evidence using the laws of the universe. If you have any evidence in favor of God, please state it in your response. Logical Reason: When I made my decision on which religion to follow, I made my own choice. I believe that people shouldn’t be born into something, or believe just what their parents believe. I wanted to make my own decisions, and believe what I want to believe, for that is what freedom is. So I looked at most of the major religions; Catholic, Mormonism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. If I wanted to believe in one of these religions, I wanted to make the right choice. I also knew that the only good reason to believe anything was through examination of evidence. So I examined the evidence; read the Bible, studied the Qur’an and other religions. None of the religions gave any evidence to prove their religion the right one; they all mostly just said to put it in faith. The definition of faith is: “strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. ” As I already established earlier, the only sound reason to believe anything is because of evidence. And to say to abandon all proof, evidence and reason and to come believe in God is irrational. Therefore, resulting in my belief in Atheism. I suggest to everyone this method, to step outside of yourself, and reevaluate your position. Learn about other religions, and choose the one that you want to believe in using evidence. I am not suggesting Atheism, merely a reevaluation of options to make the rational decision based on the most evidence. For me, science had abundant proof and evidence of how the universe worked and operated on truth and intelligence, not faith. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the universe. Religion is meant to sound good, and appeal to the emotions, but never explains much. Science is constantly open to being proven wrong, and then adjusting itself. Refusing to listen to the evidence so that you don’t get proven wrong is what religion does. Science is fundamentally trying to understand the universe. Science does not result to magic, or invent super arching entities that have no answers in themselves, or just writing the whole thing off as: God did it to explain the universe. I would rather believe in science, than in a book that was written by iron-age people, that thought the world was flat, and didn’t know the earth revolved around the sun. Believing in science is a logical choice. Conclusion: I have made multiple arguments on various subjects against the religion Christianity. I would expect my opponent to attempt to defeat these arguments using proof or evidence and to state his own arguments. Thank you and I wish my opponent the best of luck! . https://www.google.com... . http://www.merriam-webster.com... . https://answersingenesis.org... . http://www.abc.net.au... . http://www.livescience.com...