RE: Your 3 main reasons
April 18, 2011 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2011 at 11:24 am by Doubting Thomas.)
Quote:1. Perhaps most obviously and maybe a cop-out, i start with the atrocities undertaken in the name of a deity. This is fairly obvious and needs no reasoning, however i will explain that while this is my main argument against religion it is not necessarily an argument against the religious at large
Those people aren't/weren't true Christians.
Quote:2. My second being an idea springing from the dark ages, so called because of the lack of intelligent thought to come out of that era, provoked not wholly but mainly by the fear of going against the rulings and laws of the church for fear of imprisonment or worse yet an ETERNITY of damnation in a literal "yes its underneath you" hell. And is basically the drag-factor on moral, scientific and social understanding of the world around us.. the tendency for a religious person to disregard evidence of anything that makes their 'god' seem less likely
Satan caused the dark ages while the church tried to preserve their way of life, much like today.
Quote:3. My final point in my "top 3" would have to be the undeserved sense of worth that religion encourages, self worth comes from achievements in life, and I don't mean your first steps or any other meaningless task in the grand scheme of things... A perfect human would use the limit of his intellect and the entirety of the time possible that he has to further the species, solve issues and better the lives of those around him near and far... And while religion teaches this, there is a constant double standard that they must better your life by engaging you in battle (whether metaphorically or literally) and CHANGING it
It doesn't matter what kind of achievements you have in life, all that matters is accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior in order to not be sent to hell in the afterlife.
I guess I've been debating too much with Christians or reading too many of their lame arguments, but these are the likely rebuttals. You're not going to change any Christian's mind with arguments such as these, so why try? Even when faced with hard evidence that Jesus likely didn't exist, there's no evidence that God exists, or inconsistencies/inaccuracies in the bible, they always come up with some ad hoc argument to explain it away. That's one reason I dumped religion, because I realized that I kept having to come up with explanations in order to quell my cognitive dissonance whenever a serious question about religion came up. But I think most Christians don't have a problem doing that.
