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Debunking
Christian Circular Arguments and Assumptions
So why do
Christians believe
such extreme things then? If you ask them about it, their
mind-controlled
condition will become very apparent, as they say things like "Because
God
says so in his word, the Bible, which is his revelation to us" and
"Because it's true, and truth is self-apparent once you've woken up to
it" etc. However, the same could be said about any religion or belief
system. So what makes theirs any truer than others? In short, they
believe
it only because they were TOLD TO BELIEVE IT, but they don't realize
that.
They simply think, "The truth is the truth, and that's that" so they
do not question it (nor are they taught to) and do not think freely for
themselves either. Their reasoning is 100 percent circular, and besides
that,
their beliefs do not even have a valid INITIAL FOUNDATIONAL BASIS
either (which
doesn't cross their mind).
Here are some
simple key
facts that devout mind-controlled Christians fail to realize, even
though they
are right under their noses:
- There
is NO
FOUNDATIONAL BASIS or logical reason for their belief that "The Bible
is
the infallible word of God and absolute literal truth. All men are
sinners and
the only way to God is through Jesus Christ. All who believe in Christ
go to
Heaven, while all who don't go to Hell". There is no good reason to
believe such extreme things. And no basis for it at all. They were
simply TOLD
this "Gospel message", and somehow, it gave them a sense of purpose
or brought meaning into their empty chaotic lives, or it was what they
needed
to hear at that time, or it was what they were taught by their
Christian
families. So they accepted it,
and once they did, it became absolute
authority in their minds, above all questioning and skeptical inquiry,
thus
forming a complete circular loop in their train of thought which
filtered their
sense of reality so that all incoming data that fit with it was
accepted, while
all that didn't was rejected.
Once this circular loop formed in their
minds, they forget that there was NO REAL initial basis for their
extreme
beliefs in the first place!
- Once
the
Christian believes that the Bible is infallible truth and authority,
his/her
mind becomes HIJACKED in that such a belief will place Christian
teaching at
the TOP of the hierarchy in their mind, with Truth becoming subservient
to it.
In other words, Truth must serve the Bible, not the other way around,
so that
all facts and data MUST conform to the Bible or be rejected. What this
means it
that the Bible and their beliefs can NEVER be questioned, even if it's
false,
because it has occupied the highest seat of power in their minds.
However, if
Christians were to place Truth at the top, above the Bible, then they
could
question and analyze the Bible and see the obvious errors,
contradictions and irresolvable
problems with it. But instead, they place Christianity above Truth, so
that
their beliefs can never be questioned no matter how absurd, thus
creating a
completely closed and circular loop. This is the epitome of
"brainwashing". Thus, in a
sense, the Gospel is like a
"trojan horse" that offers the newly converted everything, at the
expense of hijacking and imprisoning their own mind.
- Just
because
someone (a believer himself) tells you that Christian teaching is
absolute
truth does NOT make it so, any more than any other belief system must
be true
because someone says so, or any more than the email spam and scams you
receive
everyday must be true because it says so.
- Just
because
an ancient set of books written by ancient unknown authors says
something does
NOT mean that it must be true, any more than a random book I pull out
from the
library must be true. Text in ancient books is not proof of absolute
inerrant
truth, especially when it contains so many inherent contradictions,
errors and
far-fetched stories and claims. Besides, there are many ancient books
from all
throughout history, so why not believe that all of them are infallible
divine
truth too?
- Think
about
this: If I pulled out a random book in the library and said, "This is
absolute
infallible truth and cannot be questioned because God wrote it", would
that make it true? Or suppose I were to write this in a book: "The
Gobblygook Monster created us. He is perfect, righteous and infallible,
while
we are all condemned sinners. He says that the only way to him is
through his
son, the Gobblygook Son, who died for your sins and rose from the dead.
His
disciples witnessed his resurrection and were willing to die for it, so
it must
be true. Your eternal destiny lies upon whether you accept this or
not."
Would that make it true?! Think man!
Or,
to use a less extreme example, what if I pulled out a Koran and told
you that,
according to that book, if you don't convert to Islam, you will go to
hell?
Would that make it true? Why not?
- God
did not
physically appear to you in God-like form (i.e. as a pillar of fire to
Moses)
and tell you that the Bible and Christianity are the only literal and
complete
truth. PEOPLE told you that, and FALLIBLE people at that. No one is
perfect. So
why do you believe that imperfect humans who are no more perfect than
you,
wrote something that was perfect and infallible and never to be
questioned?!
Simply because someone told you so?! Are you that gullible and naive?!
- The
Bible
shows every indication of being written by fallible and imperfect human
beings.
There are thousands of contradictions between its 66 books, many
unfulfilled
prophecies, mistakes, misunderstandings by its authors as they
referenced other
books (i.e. New Testament interpretations of Old Testament books),
different
teachings (e.g. regarding salvation and theology in the Old and New
Testaments), etc. The Bible is far from a set of unified beliefs of
agreement
in all its books. In fact, the Old Testament and New Testament teach
different
things regarding theology, salvation, morality, the messiah, the devil,
hell,
the afterlife, etc. Sure the Bible contains some wisdom, great
teachings and
eloquent stories, but so do many other ancient books as well. But there
is no
logical reason to believe that every word in it is absolutely
infallible, true
and unquestionable, just because believers tell you so. Even if the
Bible
itself says so, it does not make it true, as explained earlier. (In
fact, the
Bible itself does really not claim to be infallible, only
fundamentalist
fanatics do. I've elaborated on this in Argument
# 1.)
- The
arguments
used by Christian Apologists (e.g. Josh McDowell, C.S. Lewis, Lee
Strobel) such
as the Fulfilled Prophecies argument, the Resurrection argument, the
Trilemma
argument, etc. all collapse under simple casual scrutiny. They are no
more
sensible than the loaded agenda-driven arguments used by advertisers in
commercials. In fact, I have debunked all of them in this book.
- To
Christians
who say, "I believe the Bible not for logical or rational reasons, but
because I feel its truth deep inside of me. God spoke to my heart
through the
Holy Spirit. That is how I know it is true." let me ask you this: I can
find sincere believers of EVERY RELIGIOUS FAITH who say the same thing
about
why they believe too. For example, I have met many sincere Muslims,
Mormons and
Jehovah's Witnesses that have said that too. So why should I believe
you and
not them? They are just as sincere as you. What makes your belief right
and
theirs wrong? They have a right to "feel the truth of their religion in
their hearts" too. So what's the difference between you and them? What
makes them wrong? Simply because they don't share your beliefs, which
are based
on ancient books written by unknown people you never met?
- To
Christians
I ask this: How do you know God is all-good, all-righteous and perfect
without
blemish, fault or sin? How do you know whether God is good or whether
Satan is
evil? How do you know that the Bible is true and Satan is the Father of
lies?
Aren't you taking the Bible's word for it? What if it's not true? What
if the
Bible has deceived you? How do you really know?! YOU DON'T! You are
taking it
all on one-sided faith without a valid basis. Sheesh. No one and
nothing is
perfect. In fact, the Old Testament stories depicted God as angry,
vengeful,
jealous, etc. possessing all the traits that humans did, and making
mistakes
and regretting them as well. In fact, he was not always just, fair or
even
reasonable. In Exodus, he made the Israelites wander the desert
aimlessly for
40 years under harsh conditions while expecting them to never complain
about
it. And numerous times, he killed innocent children to punish the sins
of their
fathers. (See the list of verses in the Biblical
Atrocities section) No one can
justify such things as "fair or just". Get real. Words
in a book
are NOT a valid basis for an infallible belief.
Your reasoning process is
completely foolish, no better than those who fall prey to obvious scams
artists
and hand over all their money to them.
- The
Atheist
has a valid argument and reason for his/her disbelief. (Not that I'm an
Atheist) If God never physically shows himself to them, then one has a
perfect
right to doubt or disbelieve his existence, no matter what any book or
person
tells him about it. Moreover, their argument that an all-powerful,
all-good God
is logically incompatible with all the suffering and evil in the world,
is a
VALID argument for sure, and one which Christians have never been able
to
resolve logically, except with copout excuses like "God wants us to
have
free will otherwise we'd be robots".
- Christianity
is 100 percent anti-freedom and pro tyranny. It places no value on
liberty,
free choice, freethought, critical thinking or reason. Throughout the
Bible,
one message is consistent: "Obey
God or die and be damned!"
Obviously if you have to obey lest you be killed or damned, then you
have no
real freedom or free choice, for to be truly loyal to the Christian God
means
being completely obedient and NEVER disagreeing with him. It's total
tyranny.
There's no way around it. What this means is that if you are a "true
Christian" then you are totally anti-freedom/liberty and pro-tyranny.
Otherwise, you're a hypocrite. For more on this, see the section on
Christianity
being tyrannical.
- The
Bible is
full of utter hypocrisies. For example, one of the Ten Comman dments is
"Thou shalt not kill" yet the Christian God himself killed many
people in the Bible, many of whom were innocent, and often for trivial
reasons.
(See the Biblical
Atrocities section)
So you see, there
is no real
basis to the Christian's beliefs or version of reality. They make no
sense, are
without foundation, and follow a completely circular reasoning loop -
"It's true because God said so --> because the Bible says so
-->
because it's true..." ad nauseum. Furthermore, there was no INITIAL
BASIS
for their extreme beliefs in the first place, which they fail to
realize once
their reasoning became completely circular.
Now, devout
Christians will
usually respond to such arguments and facts that they can't explain
away with
something like this:
"You
can think whatever you want. But God makes the rules. You either follow
them or
reap the consequences. Be careful what you choose to believe in. Your
eternal
fate may hang on it."
But again, we come
back to
the obvious points and facts outlined above. How do they know what
"God's
rules" are? Because of what the Bible says? Again, just because people
create a religion around their interpretation of an ancient set of
books does
NOT mean it constitutes "God's rules", nor does it represent
unquestionable divine truth. Get real. I could say that the book of
Koran are
"God's rules" too, but would that make it so? Wouldn't you be a heretic
for not accepting the word of the Koran too? Again,
just because someone
tells you something doesn't mean it's true. And just because an ancient
book
says something doesn't mean it's true either.
I'm sure you've gotten spam
emails that make big promises or offer to wire you millions of dollars,
if you
just send a release fee of a few hundred dollars first... but does that
mean
it's true?
To Christian
readers:
So you see, your
reasoning
is
completely circular but you don't realize it. Such is the effect of
mind
control. Your reason part is subdued due to an "infallible truth"
placed at the top of your mind that can never be wrong and edits your
reality.
But I can tell you
this
though: Within such a nonthinking loop (which you don't even see) your
mind can
never be truly free and clear. Your mind is imprisoned, but you don't
even
realize it. That's why it's so effective, until you break free of it
that is,
for only then do you realize what it was doing to your mind all along.
Many Christians
will often
utter this response to criticisms of their religion as well:
"Who
are you to question God? He created the universe and you too. You have
no right
to question him or his word. He has every right to do whatever he wants
with
his creation. You ought to be thankful that he sent Jesus to die for
you, so
you could be saved and go to heaven. He could have chosen to not send a
savior
to us, let us all go to hell, and he'd be just as perfect and
righteous. None
of us deserve his mercy. Yet he chose to be merciful to us and offer us
a way
out of sin and damnation. You ought to appreciate that and accept his
free gift
of salvation through Christ, and stop rebelling against him."
To them I say this:
Again,
see the above points and links, which your mind has probably filtered
out with
cognitive dissonance. Your basic fallacy is that you assume that all
these
extreme beliefs you hold are true, when in fact there is no logical
reason, or
good reason, to believe that they are. You believe that your Christian
beliefs
are true simply because of a handful of unsupported assumptions which
point to
each other until it goes back to the original premise. It's a given,
without
any foundational basis. Thus,
your mind is in a complete circular loop, and
you don't even realize it. I
know what that's like because I used to
believe as you do, so I know what it's like to be inside such a closed
circular
loop that you don't even see.
When you are in
such a
closed black and white circular belief system, your reality and
incoming data
are EDITED. You experience extreme cognitive dissonance. All incoming
data that
agrees with your beliefs is accepted, while all data that doesn't is
rejected. Your reality is
filtered,
to the point where you
don't even see the closed loop itself (which those outside your loop
can easily
see).
Plus, to believe in
a God or
love him simply out of fear of the consequences of not doing so, is not
a
genuine or pure motive. It is nothing less than coercion. Doing
something out
of fear brings you in tune with a lower vibration. Why would an
all-wise God
want to bring people down to such a low and weak vibration?
Also, why am I
automatically
a guilty sinner with no worth just by being born on Earth? It's like
I'm
assigned automatic guilt for no reason, just like that, simply cause
Adam and
Eve ate the wrong fruit off the wrong tree?! Gimme a break...
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