ive often wondered this.....
2007-03-29 09:15:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i was actually talking about the athiests right to exist...since so many people want to burn us...
2007-03-29 09:26:21 · update #1
If you start by assuming someone must "win," I wonder how calm and rational the argument might be. Why not rather than "who would win," let's ask "what might we learn."
2007-03-29 09:33:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, why are we bashing on the Christians? I'm a lesbian witch in Georgia and *I* think you guys are going a little overboard!
There are plenty of good Christians, who love their God and would never harm a soul. Stereotyping them as intolerant bigots is just going to hurt the good ones and incite the bad ones.
Also, there is no such thing as 'winning' a religious discussion. What are the atheists going to do? Prove beyond a shadow of a doubt there is no divine being behind it all? How do you propose that?
2007-03-29 16:24:26 · answer #2 · answered by pixel_seamstress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one.
The difference between Christians and atheists lies too deep. It has nothing even to do with logic and reason. We have very deep differences concerning our perceptions of the most basic, fundamental reality.
This is not something that can be sorted out in a debate, because we're basically not even speaking the same language. It's like taking the color medium green and have one side make a debate that it's yellow and the other side debate that it's blue. Go on, try it. You can't argue something like that logically. It's a matter of perception.
2007-03-29 16:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This can and would never happen. It is impossible to have a calm, rational conversation with irrational people.
With that in mind, the Atheists would walk away from the discussion in disgust, making the Christians falsely beleive that they won the argument.
2007-03-29 16:21:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A rational argument? Are Christians capable of such an argument?
Christians would leave the table without having learned anything new and atheists would have learned that Christians truly are unable to have a rational argument.
2007-03-29 16:19:13 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've had some very calm, rational arguments with Christians of all walks of life... some I've had to walk away from and agree to disagree, some I've had to call to task when they abused their religion to berate a patient who was in pain (against their ethics as caregivers), others I've given them some "food for thought"... it all depends on the level of communication.
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2007-03-29 16:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists have usually won these debates on evolution. There really isn't any basis for a calm rational debate because the terms of the debate could never be agreed upon.
2007-03-29 16:19:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It'd be a stalemate.
When push comes to shove neither side can prove much of anything.
And a lot of what proof exists came from Religious Scientists. I just love it when Atheists try and pull the Big Bang or Genetics cards, since both of those fields were started by Catholic Officials!
2007-03-29 16:20:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Calm rationality is the goal, not the pathway. If we could even GET to rational, it would save the world. But they belive in magic. What to do?
2007-03-29 16:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's fairly obvious. The Athiest arguement is "I don't believe it, I've never seen it."
Meanwhile, Christians have the Word of God as well as personal experience to back up their claims.
Consider that reality is impossible without the intervention of a divine being... where would the Big Bang come from? Where would whatever made the Big Bang come from? Where would -that- come from?
The only possible ending is God, who is not bound by the laws of the Universe to create it.
2007-03-29 16:22:08 · answer #10 · answered by Tristan H 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋