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Debate Score:40
Arguments:26
Total Votes:42
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Do demons exist?

My friends and I were talking to each other today and we remembered a scenario a few years back in high school where we were joking around and tried to summon a demon using chocolate milk and a terrible, tiny pentagram drawn on the concrete. It was ridicuolous, but fun, and no we summoned nothing. I don't believe in demons or Satan or anything, I just wish to find out the general view of people. For evidence try and use things like science, personal experience, even religious experience (I will restrain myself and not do any 'religion bashing' in this debate). I don't regard the bible as factual evidence at all, but if you wish to quote it at least quote it well and choose a passage that doesn't contradict another (near impossible, I know). I usually aim to provoke arguments that require some level of intelligence, so don't just say they are real because god is real. That makes no sense and isn't provable at all. So now that you have read my little 'rant' go ahead and debate ;)

Yes

Side Score: 14
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No

Side Score: 26
4 points

I don't believe in the existence of a physical entity that possesses people and personifies one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

But I DO believe in the mighty power of true evil and mass hysteria. So my vote is on the 'yes' side.

Side: yes
1 point

Yes Demons's exist because I have a tape that I listen to where this guy Bob Larson was doing an exorsism and taking the demon out of the girl's body and he took some of the demons out of her. Also I also here the voice of the demons that come in many different voices. That is evidence right there.

Side: yes
garry77777(1796) Disputed
1 point

"I have a tape that I listen to where this guy Bob Larson was doing an exorsism and taking the demon out of the girl's body and he took some of the demons out of her."

Yes the Catholic church have been performing these kinds of exorcism for centuries, they consist of taking some poor individual who fuffers from schizophrenia or something, adn then subjecting to them to some painful archaic ritual. It hogwash.

Demons do exist, they're called humans, we can be demonic and saintly in our behaviour, and it all has to exist for contrast. There is no need to subsribe to some bullshit metaphysical beleif system in order to justify the existence of evil.

"Also I also here the voice of the demons that come in many different voices.That is evidence right there."

Evidence is not evidence unless it is objective i.e. independently verifiable by others.

I do not hear voices, there that is evidence right there, the difference is anyone can verify it objectively if they stop for moment and listen to see if they hear any vioces coming through.

Side: No
Srom(12206) Disputed
1 point

Yeah but when I listened to the tape there were voices of the demon inside the person's body and they had a different voice then what they humans regular voice. Also demons are not humans they are spirits that enter someones body and start saying false stuff like Satan is the lord or saviour and stuff. And the guy Bob Larson takes out the spirits through the power of the Holy Spirit (Jesus Christ). If you listened to the tape of the exorcism you can tell its a demon because of the voice and sometimes the demon leaves the girls body and the original person says that the demon left her body.

Side: yes
1 point

I really don't want to get into why I believe demons exist, it's a bit distressing. But I do believe they do :)

Side: yes
garry77777(1796) Disputed
1 point

"I really don't want to get into why I believe demons exist"

Well i hesitate to say its because your explanation would be wholey insufficient.

"it's a bit distressing."

Life is distressing.

"But I do believe they do"

I do not, and for very good reasons.

Side: No
Saurbaby(5581) Disputed
1 point

No, lol. It's because it's something I don't want to get into.

Life doesn't have to be distressing.

That's your opinion.

Side: yes

While I believe in actual entities know as demons, I also believe that a demon-like entity is used as a metaphor. The darker pleasures of the human race, the urge to do bad when we know it will cause us no good but a cheap thrill, the little voice (figurative) in the back of our heads that tells us to go against our concience... These are all very real.

Side: yes
1 point

I’m sorry to disappoint any one how follows Satanism because of all the powerful demons and the ability to harness the power of the under world but demons are not derived from satin or Beelzebub (or however you spell it). Going back into history we see that demons and monsters existed before religion and man. I believe in demons and monsters because I have had first hand experiences with several most shadow beings but wan I was a little boy in my room I wood here a foot coming from the river in witch I learned later from research it was a demon from the 16th sentry witch plays a flout to lower children to its layer and eat them so yes demons and monsters do exist simply because theirs no way to prove they don’t. 

Side: yes
4 points

It really depends on what you mean by demons, demons in the sense of supernatural beings are quite obviously hogwash.

There are no evil entities looking to invade our minds, to label something a demon is to lose sight of the control you have over your own mind.

Saying you were overcome a demon is no excuse, we all possess a shadow, Carl Young was the progenitor of this concept, and its something people should familiarise themselves with.

It is a fundamental part of our ego consciousness, thus we all have the power to submit to this part of our psyche. It doesn't mean it is some demon out there somewhere in the ether pulling strings and making do evil deeds, this kind of primitive thinking needs to be abandoned.

Side: No
2 points

no supernatural beings are ever proven to exist

not god

nor demon

Side: No
1 point

Demons do not exist.

Some people have malfunctioning brains.

Side: No
Srom(12206) Disputed
1 point

Do you have evidence for this? Your answer doesn't support anything that demon's do not exist.

Side: yes
Niko(127) Disputed
2 points

Don't even try and pull that crap as a counter-argument. You don't have any evidence for the Bible.

Side: No
garry77777(1796) Disputed
2 points

Rational inquiry places an implicit burden of proof on the person asserting a claim i.e.

"I control a great army in another dimension."

With such claims the burden of proof does not fall on others to prove me wrong, do you understand?

Side: No
1 point

TBH this is true as the demons that Jesus cured people of in my religion were mental illnesses as they did not act right and so they were placed outside of the city walls...

Side: No

Only in horror movies and those demons create big bucks at the box office.

Side: No