RE: Can you help me debate better?
April 1, 2014 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2014 at 9:44 am by archangle.)
(March 31, 2014 at 10:35 pm)Doggey75 Wrote: So, I go into a huge debate with a bunch of religious people. I think I started off strong but sucked at the end. Here is the argument http://www.christianforums.com/t7812141/
I was wondering if you can tell me what I can do to improve myself.
on the net?? lmao, worse place to do it. Unless you have some real reasonable people. But on forums things go bad fast.
avoid using negative adjectives. And when they use them try to ignore them as best you can. Stay on facts. Stay on "fact divin faith". Most theist understand that.
I have found when people hit the limit of their understanding they begin to use negative adjectives or bullying.. But I have to be honest. The hardest people I have ever debated was atheist. They are downright mean, especially when they hit information that is past them. teaknow.
But, The best trick the hard core religous theist will use is to "ignore you" or not engage in conversation further their beliefs. They call that intellect. Lmao, yep, its intelligence all right ignoring all the information.
also, make sure you understand what science is. The worst thing I see is when 2 non science people are debating using science. Science does not say a thing. It is data collection. Then scientist come and lay out all the data on the floor and seeing how it all relates. I usually start there.
For example. Jesus rising. "science"= we tracked as many people as we could. Not one rose from the dead. We then tried to raise some people and we could not yet. Scientist then say "based on this information we don't think the jesus rose as you are teaching. The fundie christian mite say we have "X-number of witness". It os ok to politely say "ok you have 2 or 3 and the data against that is in the billions." "what is more reasonable to ask us believe?" What "faith" seems to be more reasonable?
But most important, if you are like me, leave alcohol out. Unless you both can wake up and still be friends after punching each other out the night before.
That forum actually emailed for me to come back. i didnt resepond.
