Debate: Is quoting the bible a good argument for Christians?
Side: No

No one would consider another religion based on a single quote from any gospel. I do enjoy your creating your own false argument and then refuting it, however. That is not what the question is asking. No one is asking, "Would you be persuaded to change your faith based on a single Bible quote?"Whether its to convert or to convince one someone lived inside a whale or to convince someone Africans shouldn't use condoms or convince someone abortion is evil or convincing someone its okay to discriminate against gays or to convince someone they should start a holy war with Muslims circa 1000 to 1290 approximately or to convince someone to burn witches Quoting the bible to anyone at any time for any argument for or against anything is worthless unless both people are completely and utterly brain washed by the silliness contained therein. If both are than it is hardly a debate is it?Do you mind explaining how Christianity is destructive to human kind as a whole?Sure, even minus the blatant discrimination against those not exactly like them all through its short history, Muslims as mentioned in the middle ages, witches, gay people, left handed people at one point, etc. Even ignoring the violence and ignorance of the lion's share of this religion's history, in a real, general sense this religion in particular encourages stupidity. Christianity in large part, maybe not every church of it, but most want to keep its congregation stupid. Science is bs, evolution is bs, anything that takes more thought than a quote from the bible is bs. That is my primary argument against and disdain for this religion. All organized religion in fact but so many Christians are just so in your face about it without any consideration for others not Christian it may indeed seem I'm "picking" on them, but understand it is only from the perspective that everyone not Christian is "picked" on for daring believe cannibalizing weekly the son of a virgin birth might not be logical.Where do you think the morals that you so cherish came from?Morals should come from logic and natural human empathy. They are easy to come to for anyone with a brain, and if one does not have a brain simply inquire with someone who does. All any religion can offer outside of what we can come up with all on our own through thought, are excuses to commit immoralities in the name of a god. I see this far more often than immoralities committed in the name of an absence of a god.You can make the argument that there have been terrible things done in the name of Christianity and Jesus but those people did them while defying and disrespecting what Jesus actually taught.Sure, according to you. According to them it is what god wanted and they can quote the bible just as well as you. Who should I believe?The bible can be used to mean whatever one wants, such is it written, which proves my point. Quoting it is not a good argument.I can also argue that there have been terrible things done in the name of secular materialism, i.e. genocide in Cambodia.All secular materialism means is materialism with no spiritual basis. A mugging is secular materialism, so is buying a new car (unless god told you to buy a new car). I don't argue that people don't need an excuse to commit atrocity, religion just gives a convenient excuse in many cases, and while the non-religious must be a particular devious sort to abandon common human empathy all together, your average Joe has no problem committing any sort of atrocity if there is a god somewhere telling them to do it because the other people are infidels or whatever.Or how about eugenics in the name of Darwinism?Christianity was alive and well all through WWII, if you are talking about Nazis. It did nothing to stop any of it. Your argument only has merit if say, the Nazis found god half way through and stopped, or had Christianity joined ranks to save the Jewish people and other minorities. I believe they stood happily aside throughout the majority of this in Germany and much of Europe and it was not until the Allies, all non-religious states founded with a separation of religion and government, did something about it.So thank democratic secularism for saving the world next time you get a chance.