5 most self defeating statements from Christians including:
God exists outside of space and time, I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist, They’re not real Christians and more.
"Why would people die horrible deaths for a lie”?
This is essentially the martyrdom argument which implies that a person’s death in the name of an idea, helps to verify the validity of that idea. If given a moment’s thought it’s clear that it doesn’t.
This question can be asked of every single religious martyr in the history of the world and only strengthens the point that either your religion is right and all others are wrong or all religions are wrong. I think that the latter is certainly more probable.
Martyrdom only demonstrates that the martyr believes in their cause, it says nothing about the validity of the cause itself. All religious sects and groups have had martyrs and if you consider that at best, only one sect of one religion could possibly be right, that means that the vast majority of religious martyrs died in vain.
The only point that this statement makes is that it's very possible to die for something that you genuinely believe to be true that isn’t.
God exists outside of space and time
Existence is a process and all processes require time.
In order for something to exist, by any normal usage of the word, time is a requirement. The word “exists” is a present tense usage of the word exist, and tenses, are of course, descriptions of time.
Imagine that I told you that I have, in my possession, a bucket of gold that I’ve had for zero minutes and zero seconds, I’ve had it for no time at all. You would laugh at me and say that if I have it for zero time, it never existed at all, and, you would be correct.
Saying “God exists outside of space and time” is comparable to the bucket of gold analogy. If God exists for zero time, he doesn’t exist at all. Furthermore, God could not have created the very realm of time that is required for his own existence.
I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist .
Obviously the first thing to clear up is the idea that atheists need faith. Atheism requires no faith, it is simply the default position of non-belief regarding the claim that a god exists when that claim has not been demonstrated to be true.
The questions that I always ask myself are, why do so many Christians feel the need to argue that atheism requires faith? Why would they try so hard to prove that we have more faith than they do?
If Christians really believe that faith is a virtuous concept, they wouldn’t attempt to tear down another position on the grounds that it supposedly requires faith.
I think that this statement demonstrates that people that use it, don’t really think that faith is virtuous but rather something that can be used to demonstrate the weakness of a position.
God has a plan.
I think that most people have heard someone say this in time of crisis or loss. I know that I’ve heard it at funerals more than a few times, the person saying it seems to be implying that this tragedy occurred as part of God’s divine plan which is outside of our comprehension.
It also implies that if this god exists, he needs people to fight his battles and try to explain away tragedy.
The obvious question that follows from this statement is, what kind of loving god allows tragedy to occur in the first place? It’s a question asked by believers and non-believers alike.
It puts the problem with the proposition of an omnipotent God that intervenes in human affairs back into the spotlight. As Sam Harris puts it “Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely”.
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