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Winning Position: No moral difference.
Whether you are a Christian, Muslim or a Jew, there is no moral difference. The God of the old testament is the main character of all three religions. The God of the old testament is one of the most evil characters in all fiction. If you truly used the moral teachings of their books, you would be a criminal in every country known to man. It would make you a racist, misogynistic, masochistic, sycophantic, homophobic, homicidal, infanticidal, genocidal, sadistic, child molesting, rapist. There is nothing good that can come from living your life by this dogma. All the problems that Christians have with Islam comes from the same book that they themselves follow.The fact that there are good Christians and good Muslims is only evidence that there are good people in the world.Religion is an insult to human dignity.Without it you would still have good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things. But to get good people to do bad things, that takes religion.Everyone is more moral than the God of the Bible, Quran, and Torah.
Winning Position: Why would you believe anything on faith?
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Why would you believe anything on faith?
I never understood why some people use faith to justify their beliefs. Is there anything you couldn't believe on faith? Your position on any given subject is either true or false and whether you take it on faith or not is irrelevant to whether that position is the correct one. I find it funny when someone tells me that they know something to be true because their faith tells them that it is true. Knowledge is demonstrable. If you can't show it then you don't know it. Faith is a good way to be wrong.
Winning Position: Political and historical ignorance
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Political and historical ignorance
People today seem to be completely engulfed by ignorance when it comes to how politics has shaped our modern world.1. People constantly say that Democrats created the KKK, while completely forgetting to ask why that is. Fascist don't care what you call your political party. They only care if your political positions aid in there plans. In the 1800s the Democrats were the consecutive party. Conservatism is the right wing position and fascism is the extreme right. Which party is the more conservative today? Why it's the Republican party. The KKK switched elegances because the parties switched ideologies. Lincoln was a progressive. Ronald Reagan was a conservative. A lot can changed in over 150 years.2. I hear that Stalin was an atheist and that is why he committed so many atrocities. Stalin was an authoritarian nationalist who turned Russia into a country that worshipped the state. You know, our dear leader and all that bullshit. His religious beliefs didn't play much of a role in his political agenda.3. People constantly say that Hitler was an atheist and a socialist. If you look at history you will find out that this is completely untrue. First off, his party was called The National Socialist German Workers' Party. Is Hitler known for his ability to create jobs or how great he was for German healthcare? Maybe if you consider the amount of soldiers he employed to run the concentration camps and to fight his war for world domination.Second off, Hitler was undoubtedly a Christian along with 80% of the Nazi party. Just like Stalin, his religious affiliation had little to nothing to do with his political agenda.What we learn from history is that Nationalism, Fascism,Communism, and Racism are all enemies to the social health of all mankind. There are no bad people just bad ideas. If you put people in boxes in your mind and call them all the enemy then you feed the beast that is ignorance. We can't punish an idea but we can better educate people and encourage critical thinking.
Winning Position: Religion acts like a mental disorder.
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Religion acts like a mental disorder.
I'm not saying that religion is a mental disorder just that it acts like one. Religion is unreasonable and it is defended against all reason. It falls under what constitutes a delusion. de·lu·siondəˈlo͞oZHənnounan idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder."the delusion of being watched"
Winning Position: Islamic dominance by 2070
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Islamic dominance by 2070
How will the world change if Islam becomes the dominant religion? It is currently the fastest growing religion in the world.Christians make up 33% of the worlds population and Muslims make up 26%. Christianity is growing at a rate of 36% while Islam is growing at a rate of 73%. If these trends continue, experts say that Islam will be the dominant religion by 2070.How do you think this will effect global politics?
Winning Position: I'm in!
Experts believe we will have a new species of human by the year 2050 and this new species is called Homo Optimus. As our technology and scientific knowledge advances we will soon be able to incorporate neural interfaces into the human brain making our conciseness uploadable. We will be able to create artificial bodies that are immune to illness and aging. We will basically be immortal.I just have to stay alive for 33 more years and my dreams of eternal learning could possibly come to fruition.Would you like to be apart of such a future or not?
Winning Position: How do we cure scientific illiteracy?
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How do we cure scientific illiteracy?
Science is the purist method of finding truth in our word and yet a large portion of the general populous is completely ignorant of how it even works.They reject its discoveries and the people who practise it. Scientist are attacked by conspiracy theorists, religious fundamentalists, and even politicians. We live in an amazing age of technological advancements and ever increasing knowledge of the fundamental laws that govern our world. Yet, the farther we get as a society, the louder the voices of those trying to hold us back seem to get.Don't get me wrong. As a whole, society is throwing away false precepts of the past at an unprecedented rate. But there are still people of considerable number that just won't change their mind no matter how many ways you prove them wrong. Facts are rejected as lies. Well established theories are mocked and misrepresented to seem like they are nothing more than opinions, while at the same time pseudoscience and snake oil salesmen are propped up and respected.I would like to believe education is the answer but some groups have slipped into an almost militant stance. This wouldn't be a problem if they didn't try to propagate it and undermine all the progress we have made by targeting the vulnerable minds of children. How do we bring those people out of the dark ages?