Hitler went to Heaven

With many thanks to YonRoku for taking this debate, I should like to accept his definitions and reply to his arguments in turn as follows: 1 – Proof that Heaven exists All the major world religions have the notion of an afterlife as a central tenant of their doctrines. It could be that four fifths of the world's population are wrong in believing in this concept, and that the idea of a spirit world for the righteous is an archaic way for humans to reconcile themselves with their own mortality. Or it could be they are right. Either way, it can't be proved so shall we just call this one a draw? 2 – Proof that God exists Again, most religions are based on the worship of all-powerful deities. Given that these gods are numerous and competing with each other for worshipers, you might think that the real one would step forward and perform some sort of miracle to conclusively prove to the world that He is the real McCoy and all the others are false idols. Otherwise, you might listen to the preachers that tell you that God would perform such a miracle, but He can't really be bothered at the moment and that you should just have faith. Either way, it's not possible to prove or disprove His existence so can we agree to halve the spoils on this one as well? 3 – Proof that the Bible is true, and even if it is, God doesn't let humans tell Him what to do, but He is a nice guy. In terms of being an accurate account of the word of God, the Bible probably isn't worth the paper it's written on, I concede that, but for the sake of argument, can we just accept that the Bible is a valid historical document? I have never thought of this before, but my opponent is right – "Give us this day our daily bread" does seem a bit cheeky! Instead of going out to work and earning the money to pay for a loaf of bread, Matthew thought that God should provide it free of charge. However, we should remember, the Bible was written before the days of government welfare programs so people unable to work would have had no choice but to turn to the Lord for their daily sustenance. Matthew also demanded that He forgave them for whatever crimes they had committed, which is also somewhat presumptuous, but the fact that nothing is written about God failing to dole out free food and not forgiving people must mean that, in fact, He did let humans push Him around a bit. My opponent described God as "omnibenelovent" but that's not true. As far as deities go, God is not actually one of the more benevolent ones. First of all, God is a racist and He runs Heaven like an exclusive South African country club from the Apartheid era. http://www.debate.org... Secondly, He's always going about smiting people and sending plagues and having people tortured to death. http://www.infidels.org... Plus God's got a really sick sense of humour. What about the time He told Abraham to sacrifice his only son? As it happened, God let him off at the last minute, which He must of thought was hilarious but I don't suppose Abraham was laughing about it And while Hitler only killed a few million people, God practically wiped out the entire human race with His great flood - only the humans and land animals that could fit in Noah's Arc survived. This seems particularly cruel as millions of innocent bunny rabbits, gambolling lambs, fluffy kittens and cute little puppies would have drowned whilst the sharks would have survived and, indeed, feasted heartily on their carcasses. No, all considered, God makes Hitler look like the Dalai Lama. He would definitely have forgiven him his trespasses but, in actual fact, He probably thought that Hitler was quite a nice fellow with no sins to forgive. 4 – Hitler's remains didn't go anywhere. What I meant was Hitler was "sent" to Heaven – this is a matter of semantics, but fair enough nonetheless. Thank you!