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Topic
#886
Atheism challenge
Status
Finished
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Winner & statistics
After 6 votes and with 35 points ahead, the winner is...
Debaticus
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- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Three days
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- Two weeks
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
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Description
I will be arguing that atheism is a beneficial religion, and it is a preferred alternative to many other religions, as well as being an honest belief, instead of a choice.
Round 1
Atheism is a good religion for many, many reasons.
1.) There have never been any crusades in the name of atheism because there is no "deity" telling you to.
2.) Any choices made by atheists cannot fall back on the religion, and instead the person who made the bad choice is solely to blame.
See: West burrows Baptist church.
3.) Extremist atheists don't commit NEARLY as many crimes because they strongly believe in being modern and accepting.
(Yes it is satire but it still has a point)
4.) Without religion to cloud judgement, focuses on progressiveness and science can dominate. I am a proud atheist, and with no deity to believe in, I can decide for myself that all lives matter, abortion prevents a life and saves another, (Versus ruining two/three lives) other religions, (though probably wrong) don't deserve to be killed because of their beliefs, and love is love if both partners are able to consent.
5.) factually, I am not prepared to be blindsided by statistics saying "this many atheists commited horrible hate crimes against these innocent Christian mothers" and "Christians are primarily much sexier than atheists because of their strong belief in jesus's belly shrinking powers" . I am not prepared for them because I do not expect them to be evident. If there are hate crimes commited by atheists, the cannot blame that on their religion because they have none.
6.) Atheism is the only religion that doesn't contradict itself. The bible says "thou shalt no kill" but then just the other day I saw a passage detailing the stoning to death of an atheist.
Meanwhile, islam extremists are fighting in the middle east, lgbt communities are being attacked, young minorities are being oppressed, and weird shit is happening in the religious world.
Forfeited
Round 2
My previous argument still stands, and I will give my opponent a chance to rebuttal it in this round.
Forfeited
Round 3
Forfeited
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"There have never been any crusades in the name of atheism because there is no "deity" telling you to. "
Please tell me where Jesus tells you to kill non-believers.
whatever god belief tenant that the atheist abides by. I can't speak for all of them as they all word it differently. They could also add infinitely more arbitrary tenants at their own discretion if they choose since there is no strict limitation on what you can make a religion.
What tenant?
Well, technically, one could theoretically take the one tenant of atheism and expand it into a religion. Not sure what that would look like.
"I will be arguing that atheism is a beneficial religion"
Atheism is not a religion. It's a belief system.
I'm going to debate this later because I have been debating a guy on another site for a while and it is taking a lot out of me so I will postmy debate later when I feel more up to it.