Try to debunk my religion tier list (list in description)
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
After 2 votes and with the same amount of points on both sides...
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Rated
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Three days
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- Two weeks
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
- Minimal rating
- None
S tier: Taoism, Agnosticism
A Tier: Catholic/Orthodox Christianity, Buddhism
B Tier: Hinduism, Rastafarianism, Protestant Christianity
C Tier: Laveyan Satanism, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Thelema, Sikhism
D Tier: Animism, Wicca, Atheism, Deism
E Tier: Amish, Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Bahai, Paganism
F Tier: Mormonism, Jehova's Witness, Spiritual Satanism, Scientology
Even though I am Christian and it seems like I would be Bias, and vote towards something that would be towards religion, I am unable to deem a winner. Neither side cited any sources, and it seemed like the rebuttals did not really go anywhere. We had an instances of satanism being on the list and the con disagreed with its placement, and there wasn’t really a clear rebuttal besides him mentioning that it wasn’t really a religion (which means it shouldn’t be on the list due to it not being a religion per say). If pro cited some sources to rebut claims such as against the satanism claim and the eating claim, he probably could have won (Example for this is that most people in the US are overweight and eating too much has been scientifically shown to cause harm. I mention this, due to there being data on this). Anyway this was interesting though lol!
Argument
Pro’s Resolution amounts to a challenge to prove how/why his religion tier list is flawed, but advises the list is by his own choice “to value one factor over another,” and then declares to challenge his list “is of course impossible.” Also, Pro’s description of his tiered placements were sampled by far too many separate religions to make sense of placements by tiers. One must conclude by choice that Pro has stacked the deck.
Con rebutted disagreeing with the tier placement of tier C Laveyan Satanism, offering argument that it did not deserve its tier placement. Pro’s reply offered no more justification than by pointing to the tiers, making comparative mention of other religions, whose tier placements were just nebulous as Laveyan Satanism: by Pro’s whimsy at work. Tie
Sources
Neither offered source references. Pro’s personal claim of personal choice cannot count as a source. Tie
Legibility & Conduct
Tie for each
I ate 4000 calories today and drank 6 liters of water. Its what we Satanists do to gain more power. But just to be clear, dont drink 1 liter or more of water per hour. About 0.6 liters every hour is fine.
Would anyone like to vote on this egregiously assembled bucket of beans?
Not sure how Satanism takes 4th place. Like, really, this is so wrong and incorrect.