Non-Christian Religions Feel Right

Hello Sir, Thank you for your arguments, I shall rebut point by point. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ner4sh - "My question is does their religion feel right to them? Do they really know what they believe in and it's not just their cultural or ethnic traditions? Do they know their religion is the right and true one?" I would submit that thier religion does feel right to them on the following evidence, here is a video of a a Muslim telling his personal story. http://www.youtube.com... He is clearly a motivated, passionate man who is telling his story with , and this is important, feeling for me or you to tell this man that his religion does not fell right would be both disrespectful and in bad taste. Because it clearly does feel right to him, one need only traverse the streets of a cosmpolitan city to see a diverse range of people who hold thier faith close to thier hearts. It is a deeply personal chioce for the individual, a right we cannot refuse them by saying it does not feel right. Maybe it is a part of their cultural ethnic traditions, I would submit that exactly the same is the truth for most Christians, the spread of world faith populations I delivered in my opening argument demonstrates this to be truth, historically Christian countries produce more Christians, historically muslim countries produce more Muslims. Even if this were not the case, millions of Muslims, Jews, Christian, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists hold their faith, and convert regularly because they believe in the inherent truth of whatever they choose to follow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ner4sh - "Reincarnation, for example, has no proof that its actually true, while Christians have had near death experiences, and have claimed to come back from Heaven. The history of Christianity's beginnins are at the time of Jesus, but, our belief is that Christianity is linked with Judaism, though they ignore Jesus, so that means that Christianity started at the time of Abraham. Well before a whole lot of religions." If you want to see any argument and evidence for any of the major world faiths one can cite evidence, I would suggest that there is a lot of psychological study into the element of near death experiences, but this does not detract from the daily chioces that millions of people of all denominations take every day that demonstrates that faith feels right to them, whatever that faith is. Christianity is by a long way not one of the worlds oldest religions, here is a list by no means exhaustive, with evidence of the worship of that Deities long before 50 CE. http://en.wikipedia.org... Furthermore, lets take a branch we might call paganism. http://books.google.co.uk... There are approximately 300,000,000 Pagans worldwide, they believe their branch of Paganism does feel right to them one of the oldest archaeological evidence for Paganism is Stonehenge, which is believed to have been constructed sometime in 3100 BCE, here is a picture of it. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk... So if your argument is that Christianity’s age denotes it's value then I would seriously question whether this is truly the case, as there are literally thousands of Gods worshipped in pre-historic times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ner4sh - "The words of the bible are true, but people from other religions don't read it, so they don't see the sense in Christianity. I haven't read their holy books, but I know they talk about farmers in fields in Buddhism. The difference between Christianity and other religions is that God's greatest value is not His will, but His love. And other religions believe works is the way to salvation, but Christians believe we are failures and can't do anything because of our sins, but because of Christ's sacrifice we are saved. We have free will, and we can do anything through God." Sir, I would suggest this borders on preaching, which is not becoming of good debate conduct, I refer you back to the opening statement. You may feel that Christianity is correct for you, you may see whichever truth you choose to do so. I respect that this feels right to you and I would never deny that is the case. So can you see the logical fallacy in you denying that right to others. Just because it feels right to you, it does not mean it feels right to others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ner4sh - "What others believe, I can respect, but really, I think their religions are kind of weird and don't feel satisfying, especially on the part of their gods or god. They should really look into that and look into Christianity, because there is truly a lot they're missing out on. I'm only 13 years old, so I'm not pro at this. My opponent will have to explain to me why their religion feels right" Once again sir, it does indeed feel right to you, that is good, you should go with what feels right to you, and of course if you feel others are missing out, then yes reading is always encouraged, but as you have said you have yet to read other holy scriptures, so an imam or rabbi could say exactly the same to you, there is a lot you may well be missing out on as well. I am an atheist, I have no religion, I do not feel I have to exlplain my personal beliefs to you in order to defend the millions of people that follow thier own faith in thier own way. As I said before, I do not believe what you believe, but I respect your right to believe it, and that it feels right to you, it would be very wise to respect that in others they also feel their faith is correct. A deeply personal choice. With great respect, Ben