Argument to refute Religion?

Question

Ok so the title of the question has nothing to do with this. Only to catch you attention lol. BUT PLEASE READ ON! lol


Just absorb yourself in this story and play along please :)
You're sitting on your computer when suddenly, a remote control appears in front of your eyes :0 ! The remote control has only two switches however: One labelled "Convert population to Atheism" and the other labelled "Convert Population to Christianity".
Please tell me your current religion, and then tell me the button you would hit and why.
I'm an Atheist, but I would hit Christianity because of the fact that I believe it is rather Cruel to obliterate a religion so selfishly. While we would still have our current level of knowledge (hopefully :p ), eventually I believe the scientific mind will emerge again, and people will once again question dogmatic faith. What about you?

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Just press one!

If I didn't have to press the button, I would Auction it on E-bay and get rich off of it lol.

Answer 1

HI Alby,
I don't believe that I have "dogmatic faith". I am a Non-Denominational Christian however. I just can not imagine everything in this world having come about as a result of happenstance. It seems impossible for the earth to be at the perfect tilt, the distance from the sun to be just right, the moon situated at the right distance to sustain our life on earth. It does not seem possible for all plant and animal life on this planet to have come about with the complex DNA and chemical reactions involved to sustainall of creation by ACCIDENT. It does not seem possible for the decomposition of plants and animals to form fertilization in the form of decay to feed and continually feed us in the manner that it does. This world is just too complex and I am just touching the surface at this point. I alswo l;ook at the BIBLE and see so much that was answered when no man knew about this world and there are so many predictions of our Messiah that were answered in HIM. I am a True Christian and will probably always be. I do not believe that a button would be my preference because it would make me too lazy about continuing to study GOD's WORD and attending the services that we are told to attend. Have a great day and a wonderful week!! Thanks for this opportunity of expression.
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Answer 2

Yeah, I have a problem with it being just Christianity...I was raised Roman Catholic; however I no longer attend church. I just can't deal with organized religion any longer. I am spiritual, believe in God, and Jesus, the angels, and a whole lot of other stuff that Christianity can't grasp. So I would have a difficult time pushing any button.
I think I would throw the thing out the window, unless you changed it to "Convert Population to Spirituality". That would encompass all religions, faiths, spiritualism, etc.

Answer 3

Religion a la Matrix. (Blue or Red pill...) I like it. I am a self-styled Buddhist but was once Roman Catholic. Going by your parameters, I would also press the button "Convert Population to Christianity", the red pill, simply because the eradication of faith is tantamount to the elimination of belief, trust, and, ultimately, love, the one facility in each of us that puts "human" in the phrase human being.

Drinking the blue pill will bring us back to a survival stage in evolution where beings (not human), though civilized in your parameters, are only conscious enough to perpetuate ther own life to the next day. Morals becomes non existent, and life is reduced to eating, sleeping, procreation and defecation.

Besides opposable thumbs (the physical part of humanness), human life necessitates a belief in the higher power(s) to maintain the dividing line between human beings and just beings.

Answer 4

I am a Christian. I like the question, it's coll. If it was me I would be very tempted to press the Christian button because for the obvious reasons I believe also, everyone would return the love that God has for each of them, and there would be peace finally. But I would have to take a hammer and smash it to pieces so that no one ever pressed the buttons. People have free will so that they can chose whether or not they want to return the love and live life to the fullest. (And I just want to note that just because there are some differences between religion and science, Christians believe that science is the natural law of God.)

Answer 5

I am a Christian, but sense I am also an American, I will not force others to convert to my religion, also as a Christian I can not force others to follow the truth, all I can do is warn the world that sin is real and that we are all sinners in the eyes of God. So in answer to your question I would not push either button, I would destroy the remote.

Answer 6

1) What population? 2) How big is it? 3) What religion or lack of is it currently?

If it's ALREADY Christian I'd keep it that way - I want to TEACH them logic. Not just bang it into them.... *heh. That sounded weird... bang logic...*

If it's, say... Sweden - I'd hit atheist and keep it that way. (It's the most atheistic country in the world btw: So I wouldn't really change anything.) Or I'd leave it alone... whichever.

If it's neither Christian or atheist - I'd hit nothing.

Basically, I'd hit nothing no matter the population, I guess.

Answer 7

Convert Population to Christianity".

Answer 8

I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

And I'd close my eyes - cause something is not right about a remote appearing before your eyes out of nowhere. And I'll let God be the judge of which religion to convert the world to.

Answer 9

Assuming it were even plausible, immortality is a diverse drawback at the same time as it includes a species' version to a always replacing surroundings. therefore, organic decision may have a tendency to eliminate such mutations from the gene pool.

Answer 10

I would be weary about even touching something that appeared out of thin air. I like your way of thinking, but I really wouldn't want to press either. Then the R&S section would stop being as fun for me as it currently is. :)