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There really is no debate with Christians. With the right arguments, they can be shut down with that look of a deer in headlights in less than 5 min. Many popular atheists today, such as Richard Dawkins, have taken their arguments in books and live debates in the wrong direction. Althought these books are great, I own them, but they do little to give Christians an ego check. I could probably debate those same Christians just with the Bible. I can debunk Creation in 2 pages, prove God does not exist in 3 and debunk Christianity and the Bible in 6. The last one is here, http://fubar.com/blog/290783/1124595
I will post the first two. The last one shuts Christians down like a huge wrench in their gears with an attached bomb on it. There is also a couple blogs on how America is NOT a Christian Nation and how Jesus is not the reason for Christmas and Easter.
The short of it is God was responsible for the fall from grace by being unable to stop Satan's Insurrection (a theology story not supported by the Bible), by allowing Satan to escape from an ill-conceived pit to roam earth (at some point), by placing temptation in the Garden in the form of trees and by creating Adam and Eve, the consequences of which he should have foreseen.
Christians say we go to hell by choice and free will, but this is a lie. It was the search for knowledge and the gaining of a conscience that caused Adam and Eve to become like God. This duplication of Satan's Insurrection and threat to his omnipotence caused God such a big scare that he denied them eternal life and cursed them. According to the Bible on God has free will, even Satan cannot do anything unless god allows. Humans do not have free will according to the Bible. God causes things to happen and people to act in certain ways, including ordering them or forcing them to murder, rape, commit adultery, and other things that anger him.
The Bible gives us several different reasons how sin came, almost all of them God was responsible for. It gives us several different contradicting ways how to gain salvation, but ultimately those who have been chosen since the foundation of creation, so it doesn't matter what we do and God hardens the hearts of those who are not supposed to get the message.
The Bible itself undermines Christian theology and I don't care what denomination they come from. I have emailed or mailed this debate to over 200 church staff and I have only begun. The only response I have ever gotten was some irrelevant story about Jesus's love, which is also a sham.
Read my blogs. While realistic and humanistic answers like you have given are true, the best debate is using the Bible against them to supplement your own. You will find that they don't even know the book they say they live by and how far Christianity has taken the entire thing out of context. It is a debate they have never heard and cannot deal with.
Secondly, people usually are what they hate. No matter what Christians say they are true racists against the human race and reason. There is a huge snag with Christianity of such magnitude that it even interfered with Paul's line of thinking, RESPONSIBILITY. Do you know why people get addicted to drugs, alcohol, etc? It's because when you blame outside sources for your emotions (people's behavior or words, circumstances, etc) you look for outside sources to distract, change or save you. This is also why people get addicted to blind faith. Faith itself, however, is blind to the truth.
Thirdly, I like debating the Christians (or anyone) who can't deal with others from love and compassion. Can we deal with people from a position of love and compassion? If we can't its because we are judging them and judgment is a reflection of something that we do not like about ourselves. No discernment and judgment are not the same. You can discern with knowledge or experience that a rattlesnake is poisonous. You can accept the snake for what it is and avoid it out of love for your own life. This is what people with integrity do with people who do not have integrity (consistency in actions, principles, honesty, beliefs, etc) Judgment is different. It condemns, and wants to change the snake because its resists the snake for what it is. When you SHOW Christians that God is a murderer and such and demonstrate that their religion is anti-human and anti-science, because they do not have integrity or love, they do not know what it is. They will oddly say you are the one who is contradicting yourself, is judging them, etc.
