This is the basic outline of my exam speech, when parts would be best to cut out, as this speech takes over 10 minutes and should be minutes less.
-What is the most important question on Earth?
-I am going to assume that either all or the bulk of the religious people in this room are Christian.
-Atheism, in all its forms, is the fastest growing religion-related belief in the world.
-1 out of 5 of the people in this room are most likely non-religious.
-Religion has existed for a very long time, served as an explanation for things people didn鈥檛 understand.
-Now that we are understanding more than we could have ever imagined and are learning more as an exponential rate, religion is no longer necessary, but old habits die hard.
-I鈥檓 not going to question the possible existence of a god in general or of the Muslim or Buddhist god, take too long. Could also talk for hours about Christianity.
-Here鈥檚 a basic argument:
-Evil exists (destruction, rape, murder, starvation, war)
-Definition of Christian god is he鈥檚 all-powerful, perfect, loving, and caring.
-Two possibilities:
-Cannot take away evil, which contradicts with being all-powerful.
-Chooses not to take away evil, which means he鈥檚 belligerent and lets billions suffer, not only adults who have sinned but children and infants all over the world for millennia. Does this sound like a caring, perfect, loving god?
-Let鈥檚 take a quick look at the Bible, the holy word of god. How many people?
-I鈥檒l assume most people in here care only for the New Testament and reject the terrible Old Testament so I won鈥檛 go into it, but quickly I鈥檒l say my favorite quote from the Old Testament:
- Deuteronomy 25:11-12: If a man gets into a fight with another man and his wife seeks to rescue her husband by grabbing the enemy's genitals, her hand shall be cut off and no pity shall be shown her.
-I鈥檒l also ignore that God commands that witches, homosexuals, rebellious children, fortunetellers, adulterers, followers of other religions, nonbelievers, women who don鈥檛 listen to men, brats, fornicators, and false prophets be brutally murdered in the Old Testament and that there鈥檚 dozens of cases of god ordering entire cities to be pillaged, burned, all its men murdered ,and all its women raped. He also condones sexism and slavery.
-The Old Testament is obviously terrible, so let鈥檚 look at the New Testament. Many people overlook very basic bible stories for granted. God ordered millions of men, women, and children and every other living thing save Noah, his family, and a lot of animals to be killed in a great flood. This is a child鈥檚 bed time story. Even if it didn鈥檛 really happen but is just symbolic, isn鈥檛 it terrible?
-Did you know that on Matthew 7:7 鈥渆very one who asks receives鈥? Anyone who believes, and prays for something in his name, it will happen. Do you believe that? Jesus says its true but it obviously isn鈥檛.
-Worthy requests, won鈥檛 levitate a car for you.
Even though it doesn鈥檛 say it matters how important the request is in the bible, lets think of this. Millions of people, like a raise at work or that the Packer鈥檚 will win. Millions of people think that when these things happen God鈥檚 responsible, while when a starving kid in the slums prays and gets nothing鈥his is just 鈥済od鈥檚 plan鈥?
-Millions of people also say that prayer helped cure them or their love ones of disease
-Hypothetical story
Why is it that god cures the diseases or ailments with microscopic organisms causing it, but not the ones where if god helped, we would all see it? Why doesn鈥檛 he heal amputees. According to the bible, and to the claim that only worthy prayers are answered, if you pray for your friends severed arm to grow back it will happen. Why doesn鈥檛 it? Its because prayer doesn鈥檛 work. Prayer actually limits progress. If you say that god healed you, not chemotherapy and healthy choices, than your basically saying that new ways to fight cancer don鈥檛 need to be researched. God can cure people, why do we need to? Well, that鈥檚 enough about prayer.
-I want to cover Christianity in a couple simple statements.
-God has never left any physical evidence of his existence on earth.
-None of Jesus' "miracles" left any physical evidence either.
- God has never spoken to modern man, for example by taking over all the television stations and broadcasting a rational message to everyone.
-The resurrected Jesus has never appeared to anyone.
-The Bible is a primitive, immoral, illogical, and ridiculous book and is obviously the work of primitive men rather than a perfect God.
-Huge, amazing atrocities like the Holocaust and AIDS occur without any response from God.
-According to the bible, if your not Christian, even if you鈥檙e a 7 year old raised islam, you will BURN IN HELL. God is not loving, caring, he doesn鈥檛 give second chances, and he鈥檚 angry. Just read the bible.
-Believing in Christianity and all other religions is basically throwing rat You need to make just a few main points with one or two supports. With a speech this short you do not want to go on and on on any one point. Use one quote from a source and not multiple unless absolutely necessary. Ps do more research on your religions tho.... Budists belive in more than one god and Muslim and Christianity have the same god different saviors..... Ps atheism is considered anti-religion not a religion more a philosophy. Yes I am Christian but have many friends of multiple religions and yes some of them anti-religion and that is not y I am saying this it is because If you want to show people that Atheism is a concrete Idea and even maybe more than others than you want to sound intelligent. To dispute something you must understand it well yourself. |
