How to Debate an Atheist

PJ Media ^ | September 22, 2017 | Edward Watson

[Elsie]

The believer in a moral God must account for one thing, unjust suffering

Oh?

Just to WHOM must this 'moral' GOD account?

[Elsie]

I find ignoring him is the worst i can do to him, as he wants the confrontation.

His soul is crying; "Give me Something to believe in!!"

[mairdie]

You sound like you were a very good mother. Which makes for lucky children.

[Gene Eric]

>> APL: I don’t have a belief system

Atheism is the presumptuous rejection of another’s intimate faith, not the absence of a personal belief system. The agnostic makes the best argument in this regard.

[Elsie]

The assumption that “someone must have created this” comes from the idea that nothing can exist without having been created.
This leads to the question “Then who or what created God?”

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The assumption that “this stuff has always been here” comes from the idea that a GOD does NOT exist.
This leads to the question “How long has it been here?"

[Elsie]

One demon said, "I have found much success in telling them that the Bible is full of contradictions, and how science explains the origin of the Universe, so that they cannot even believe its warning about us" (to some cackles of laughter).

Been there; done that.

We all know that E=mc² thingy.

We also know it can be rearranged to read

m=E/c² (Poof! the Big Bang!!)

Now the question that forms is:

Where'd the energy come from?

[A_perfect_lady]

I’m here because I’m a conservative. That really isn’t synonymous with Christian (as the Catholic church and various left wing religious organizations daily prove.)

[A_perfect_lady]

Atheism is the presumptuous rejection of another’s intimate faith, not the absence of a personal belief system.

I'm afraid you don't quite know what you're talking about there, but you've often come across that way over the years here at FR.

[A_perfect_lady]

I'll accept that you have no belief system; if you can explain it to me.

There's nothing to explain. I have no belief system. That's... kind of it.

[Elsie]

It serves no purpose to allow for a god, other than to end the debate and send the searcher off on a scavenger hunt for “what, then, does this god want?”

Well; mine wants all to admit being a sinner.

After that he/she/it wants to let them know that they are Loved.

When that all finally sinks in; He wants all to know that in the future, there will be a really neat place to live in!

And all He asks is, "Believeth thou this?"

[Elsie]

Then you have an UN-belief system.

Cool!

[Chicory]

Exactly :)

[IronJack]

I’m just going to disagree and leave it at that. No sense going on with this.

[A_perfect_lady]

I don’t blame you. If you can’t categorize every observation, surmise, hypothesis, or contemplation as a “belief,” it becomes difficult to reduce every world view to a “belief system.”

[Gene Eric]

>> I’m afraid you don’t quite know what you’re talking about there

The atheist’s axiom.

[CJ Wolf]

ib4 “There are no atheists in foxholes” ::-)

[HarleyD]

I found the easiest way to debate an atheist is to simply ask them if 1) they believe that life could exist elsewhere in the universe, and 2) if they believe other dimensions could exist apart from our own. I have yet to encounter an atheist who would deny those idea. If so, the next logical question is why is it so difficult to believe in angels, demons, or God etc. existing as life in another dimension alongside of us? Invariably that stops the conversation.

[A_perfect_lady]

It’s not true anyway. 15 months ago I had a near-death experience and all that went through my mind was “so this is it.” Nothing about religion occurred to me till later when I told my Mom about it and ... well, she’s religious, so she started talking about it.

[daniel1212]

I found the easiest way to debate an atheist is to simply ask them if 1) they believe that life could exist elsewhere in the universe, and 2) if they believe other dimensions could exist apart from our own. I have yet to encounter an atheist who would deny those idea. If so, the next logical question is why is it so difficult to believe in angels, demons, or God etc. existing as life in another dimension alongside of us? Invariably that stops the conversation.

Indeed, for ETs are not seen as making moral demands, apart from things like liberal causes, nor threaten eternal punishments, apart from things like liberal causes. More people have suffered and died due to fornication, primary sodomic, than from nuclear bombs, which threat was the reason for

[daniel1212]

I’m here because I’m a conservative. That really isn’t synonymous with Christian (as the Catholic church and various left wing religious organizations daily prove.)

One can be a conservative without being a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian without being a social conservative, but being a Catholic really is not necessarily synonymous with being a Christian and a conservative.

However, both Christians and Catholics have their respective supreme transcendent standards for faith and morals to which they can be compared to, while for the atheist what seems "reasonable" to each one is the supreme standard, however divergent.

But it is good to see that you support a pro-God forum and America, regardless of seeing proof of God as useless.