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Debunking Christian Circular Arguments and Assumptions
First, here is
something
inescapable.
It is a valid and logical argument that Atheists and Anti-Christian
writers
(e.g. Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell)
have used
throughout history that Christians and theists have never been able to
debunk
or explain away logically.
75 percent of the
world’s
population lives in poverty, hunger and suffering. This amounts to
billions of
people, most of whom are innocent, both now and throughout history.
There are
wars, famines, poverty, disease, hunger, greed, and evil, which kill
people
everyday. The world is mostly run by sociopaths, who are above
the law and
go largely unpunished. Most positions of power are attained by evil
people
rather than good people (since power attracts the evil and corruptible
rather
than the good). The world is unjust and life is unfair. Good people
suffer and
die young. Peacemakers with mass influence get taken out and
assassinated (JFK,
RFK, MLK, Lennon, etc.). The strong take advantage of the weak and
oppress
them, and the world is ruled by the "might is right" principle. Even
animals have to kill each other for food. So how can the majority of
the world
continue to believe in a God who is all-good and all-powerful, yet
allows all
this to continue to be? That is odd. Yet most people don’t
think about it. They
simply believe, not because of proof or evidence, but because most
people
around them believe it, so they assume it must be true.
However, it is
logically impossible for there to be a God who is both all-powerful and
all-good, as Christians claim, yet allows all this to be.
There is no
resolution or escape from this dilemma. No theologian or philosopher
has ever
solved it. It remains the eternal paradox. Therefore, we must question
our
assumptions about God, which may not be correct.
To put this in
perspective:
All three of the
above
CANNOT
logically co-exist at the same time. The only logical possibilities are:
a) God/the Creator is not all
powerful and cannot stop evil and suffering. (if so, then how did he
create the
whole universe?)
b) God/the Creator is evil, or
not good, or doesn't care. Or he has an evil side as well as a good
side, like
we do.
c) God doesn't exist.
d) God/the Creator is nothing
like what you think he is, or is something beyond your comprehension.
e) God/the Creator lets
suffering and evil exist for reasons beyond your comprehension, and/or
does not
have the same morals that you do.
The standard
Christian
explanation for the above, which makes no sense at all and is a
ridiculous
cop-out, is:
"God
allows evil and suffering to exist in the world because Man chose to
Sin in the
Garden of Eden. God gave Man freewill, and Mankind chose Sin. Hence
death,
pain, decay and evil entered into the world. God is 100 percent just
and
righteous, so all this is Mankind's fault, not God's. It says so in the
Bible."
I'm sorry but these
are mere
words and just do not cut it. They make ZERO SENSE and the implications
of it
are 100 percent ridiculous too. Anyone who takes such an explanation
seriously
must either be completely insane and lost his marbles, or is completely
brainwashed and mind-controlled, in order to accept something that
makes zero
sense as Gospel Truth.
What the standard
Christian
explanation implies is that:
"A
good and all-knowing God allowed billions of people throughout history
to
suffer, die, and go to hell (if they died unsaved) simply because two
naive
people named Adam and Eve took a bite of the fruit of a forbidden tree
in the
Garden of Eden. In other words, one little mistake (or bite) caused a
lifetime
and eternity of pain for billions of people, and deservedly so, which
all-wise
and all-good God allowed."
Um excuse me, but
even if I
were on crack, I wouldn't buy such an insane explanation. I'd sooner
believe
that Santa Claus visits every home in the world in one night on
Christmas Eve
than that! Come on now. Gimme a break. Get real! I mean, I know you
don't have
to be intelligent to be a Christian, but really... Anyhow, that's their
version
of reality, which they take seriously, believe it or not.
Not only is this
explanation 1000 percent insane, but it is 1000 percent UNJUST as well. I mean, what kind of a
parent would allow their
children to suffer pain and death (not to mention damnation) as a
consequence
of taking a bite out of a fruit that you told them not to touch? It
doesn't
make any sense! Wouldn't such a parent be the most evil and sociopathic
parent
in the world? (Yet a God who is 100 percent perfect and righteous would
do
that?!) There is no escaping that. There
is no way in hell (pardon the pun)
that one little mistake could be worth a lifetime or eternity of pain.
No
way. No Christian in the world could justify that. It is completely
unjustifiable, insane, nonsensical, and there is no logical reason to
believe
it either.
Yet Christians take
this
explanation seriously?! And they believe in a 100 percent righteous and
just
God too?! WTF?! This is nothing short of pure and total mind control.
No
question about it.
Besides, how do
they know
that God is 100 percent righteous and just? Because the Bible says so?
And that
alone makes it true?! Gee, what low standards. I mean, how do they know
that
Satan isn't the good guy and God the bad guy? They don't! All they can
do is
believe whatever someone TELLS them, and labels the rest as "lies of
Satan". But life teaches us that things are not always what they seem,
life teaches us. They simply take it on faith, that the Bible is all
true
because it is, and that's that. It's the weakest logic of all.
Also, why does
Lucifer/Satan
wanting a little freedom when he was an angel of God make him 100
percent evil?
Teenagers naturally want some freedom from their parents too, but does
that
make them 100 percent evil and demonic? You see how nonsensical all of
this is?
Nothing in the Christian fundamentalist version of reality makes the
slightest
bit of sense...
Plus, if I were an
all-knowing God and knew BEFORE I created the world that the majority
of the
people on Earth would suffer through life and end up in the eternal
torment of
hell afterward (since most people do not become Christians in their
lifetime),
I would certainly not create such a world. No sane person would create
something knowing in advance that the bad that would come out of it
would far
exceed the good. No sane person would go through with that, let alone
an
all-wise God. Think about it: If you knew before setting up a business
that
you'd incur a loss of $75,000 and reap only $25,000 in profit (based on
1/4 of
the world's population claiming to be Christians), would you go through
with
it? Get real.
So you see, nothing
about
the
Christian version of reality makes any sense at all, in any way at all,
once
you look at it with a clear mind free of fear and mind control. There
are way
too many irresolvable problems with it.
In fact, many
ex-Christians
report in their deconversion testimonials that while they were
believers, such
logical impossibilities and unresolvable questions as the above, kept
entering
their minds from time to time. But since they could not be
satisfactorily
explained away, they had to be mentally filed away on a mental shelf
labeled
"Unresolvable". However, eventually, such unresolvable questions
accumulated until they became too heavy to ignore and deny any longer.
At some
point, their "mental shelf" simply broke and they could no longer
live in denial anymore. It was only then, that the mind control imposed
on them
by Christianity broke down, and they were finally set free from it.
(One great example
of this
is
my friend Darryl Sloan,
an aware
skeptic, freethinker and author who described many such logical
impossibilities
in Christianity in his YouTube videos, which you can see at http://www.youtube.com/darrylsloan.
And my own Christian deconversion story is at https://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Christian_Story.htm)
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