10 Tips for Winning a Debate 

Carol Ordaya hahahahahaha

Savage

nowadays the general public is the harshest judge

The judge IS your audience

Me too😇😇😇

Arsany Osama so edgy. Did you make a coming out video?

This just made me laugh so hard hahaha

As long as you live in their house, obey them you filthy basement dweller! Other than that, then you are free to believe anything you want to believe

I'm an Atheist and idc what others think

@@realThomastheCat fuck off

Like the Wendy Wright bitch that debated with Richard Dawkins.

RonZombie91 That wasn't really a debate she was more like a cat pawing at a glass window trying to get in but not realizing there is something in the way.

RonZombie91 Or lane Craig, his smiles are creppy

Tyrion Lannister I'll have to watch that one. Who was the debate with?

Every time he opens his motuh, there are tons of debates of him against hitchens, Harris, Dillahunty...

+Dax Corsiar (Weeaboo) As in you died laughing?

DuaneTheDarknessDragoon B No. Like I died from a heart attack.

+Dax Corsiar (Weeaboo) I died because I couldn't handle how suborn and ignorant my 11 year old christian/creationist sister is, I died of depression, I felt I couldn't save her from the void of suborn ignorance that is creationism... Lol, but really it gets on my nerves.

+Zee Utuber most christians are

***** She's like my mother, except she's not even as open minded as her... So, I don't see any change coming...

No he's saying talk to them not at them in a way. Don't preach to them talk to them.

Michael Frueh Ok. No salad. Got it.

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Dann858 #13 take notes. These people have been trained since childhood to spit bullshit, argue like an angry child, dish insults, talk in circles, assert feelings as facts, change the subject, misrepresent everything that contradicts them, talk as though an authority on subjects that they are not qualified in, pretty much invented every logical fallacy there is, and oh yeah.....flat out lie and accuse their opponents of being untruthful.

***** A seemingly normal gentleman told me, this last Friday that: 1) Atheists hate Christians 2) Atheists are on AL Qaeda's side 3) Atheists hate America 4) Atheist are always on the extreme opposite side of everything. I tried to be civil, but when I said I didn't think those claims were correct, he ran off. I'm not 100% sure if he knows I am an Atheist, but I don't see any of us who hold these 4 ridiculous positions. See what I mean?

Daniel Dennett Wow those are really are dumb assumptions. Things that I would have said to those claims: 1) I love my family and on good terms with them, and they're almost all Christian. 2) Seriously? I think they're radical extremists carrying out horrific acts of violence against the innocent for no good reason other than that it says to do so in their Holy Book. Now, doesn't that sound familiar (hmm)? The problem lies with a lack of education. 3) It's true that I think America is getting dumber and heading in the wrong direction, but I still love it, nonetheless. 4) That is a huge generalization you've made there. Your claim holds the same value as, for example, looking at a 2x2-m area of ocean water, finding no fish, and claiming "there are no fish living in the ocean." Now, does that make any sense to you? You've taken one thing (maybe two) we disagree with in particular and created a mountainous claim that I am against everyone and everything, which is simply untrue.

K3wlG33k I work with this guy and he is (usually) one of the most sane people I can think of, but he just flew off the deep end and then we got interupted by another manager when I was getting ready to argue against his first point, he ran off. On his first point, I would have stuck to my honest position that "hate" (for me) really, has to be earned. When I think of people I hate...I think of people who are predatory and parasite off of other humans example: pedophiles, CEO's like that jerk that runs Walmart (not Bill Gates). Those are the types who I reserve my hate for, because they earn it.

Daniel Dennett PRAISE ALLAH!!!!..... I mean......Christianity is stupid.

My thoughts exactly.

Michael Jonas Thank you sir for your comment, it's like the first rational non- bashing comment I've read in a while in the internet. :)

Michael Jonas You are great. As an atheist myself who lives in country where religion is slowly dying(there is only around 15% of religious people in Czech Republic)I never had the need to be rude or aggresive toward other people believing in anything different than myself. Since I found Hemant I had chance to think more about how to communicate with religious people and what not to tell and stuff....if there were more people like you the world would be better place. People just need to accept other people ..with their religion, race and so on..... if that would happen no one would need to be rude or obssesive.

Michael Jonas You have done brilliantly with that post. Thank you, sir, for existing

Michael Jonas feel free to becum a atheist!!

Attack a strawman? Compare your opponent to Hitler? What weak tips. Great for high school debates but for the search for the truth, this is Non sequitur and debaters who use these must be filthy liberals or ignorant buffoons whose only goal is to win instead of finding the truth.

@@realThomastheCat r/whoosh

Not sure if this is describing atheists or Christian’s.. lol both unfortunately. If we just had respect for one another without the condition of similar beliefs.. it’d be great

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sorry? I'm a bit confused by your response.

Its a face. I didn't have anything to say so I put a face. ^-^ T-T :D :p (>0.0)> Faces :3

Okay, thanks.

Same, I just acted like it was turned around and these were tips for Christians.

TobyKid Major

+CidGuerreiro1234 You're so right. Surely that's the point of a debate - to discuss opposing views in an open forum, not to win or lose.

+jinitron Ok, how about a debate right here in the open? I'll defend theism. I can never find any people in these comments who want to debate.

Richard Stoltzfoos I'm atheist, I'm up for a debate. I see no reason to believe a god of any sort exists due to the lack of evidence. All I ever get in a debate with theists is fallacy after fallacy. If you feel you can construct good, valid arguments, feel free to do so.

+Tesla Nick The first argument I will raise is the Kalam Cosmological Argument. 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3) Therefore, the universe began to exist. This is a deductive argument. This means that if the two premises are true, the conclusion follows logically and inescapably. Hence, to deny the conclusion, one must deny one of the premises. This makes for nice debating format. But are these premises true? Well, let's examine them. 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. Is this true? Well, think about it. In our experience, we do not experience things popping into being from nothing. Raging tigers don't appear in one's bathroom from absolutely nothing. While you look at your computer screen right now, vampires don't appear behind you uncaused from nothing(you hope not). So it is true that we don't experience this happening. At all. But then, why would the universe? What makes nothingness so discriminatory? I think we can then rely on this principle, that for every effect, there is a cause. For every egg, there is a hen. Premise Two I like to summarize as follows: 2a. Either the universe is eternal in the past, or it began to exist. 2b. The universe is not eternal in the past. 2) Therefore, the universe began to exist. 2a is logical. 2b can be supported using numerous philosophical arguments against an infinite series of events, as well as (drumroll, please) the second law of thermodynamics. If the universe had been eternal in the past, the stars(including our sun) would have burned out by now. The universe would have run out of usable energy. So it seems to me the second premise is undeniable. Now what does this argument leave us with? Well, it leaves us with a cause of the universe. This cause must be immaterial, spaceless, and timeless, because it created matter & energy, space, and time. It must be transcendent, because it transcended matter & energy, space, and time. It must be uncaused because an infinite regress of causes is impossible. Some would also argue this cause must be a personal being as well. So this leaves us with a tremendously powerful, immaterial, spaceless, timeless, uncaused, transcendent, personal cause of the universe, who created the universe and everything in it. Much like...God.

Richard Stoltzfoos The Kalam argument fails for a number of reasons. Premise one commits the argument from ignorance fallacy. We have no way of studying what may or may not have caused the universe to exist. Premise two also makes assumptions. We've yet to demonstrate the universe had a beginning. We only know that the universe expanded from a prior state to what we observe today.

Tanmay Tikle Absolutely. I've been looking through here for half an hour and all I can find is "God is real" and "No he's not".

I also want to be like him. But not exactly him. I would like to be VIVEK

Also, he is very handsome.

You joined RU-vid 13years ago, you still alive ?

@@naomitwotimes tf does that got to do with anything?

Wow, I guess that makes all religious guys dumb and all atheists smart. Thanks Einstein!

Ken Bagwell They are not dumb, they are just ignorant, there's a difference sir.

Gordon Freeman I am glad you see that. There is a lot of ignorance and stupidity on both sides of the equation.

Ken Bagwell That's true.

The Fields of Ice Shouldn't they want Jesus to return?

@ BlakeMcTavishe - You actually have it wrong by making two words out of one - what you should have written is masturbating - and who really want to talk about that?

Bael Zeitgueist69 this comment is 6 years old dude. The joke went right over your head you take it too literal

Nofap is the way man More Testosterone

don't be open about it.

Don't hide it though, if it's in a conversation it is completely appropriate to talk about. And good luck I went through similar things as you

Than get out of that church. They are trying to kill you. lol. Not literally for those who think I mean it literally.

Recently an atheist? Did you evolve into an atheist. lol It was a choice, right? I'm interested in knowing why you became an atheist. What is the attraction; the appeal.

This is late,but just be true to yourself. If someone wants to have a peaceful conversation, great. Otherwise just walk away.

That's the point of a debate.

Joseph Stalin lol

😂🤣🤣😂

Tim, just read a chapter or 1/2 a chapter a day. You'll get it quick. And go with king james version. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Id rather read a science book

+Tim Stahel (Moustached Viking) ...A lawbook against gays.

+WeKnowTheTruth2012 do not read the king james bible

They are many versions of the bible, try an abridged version containing the important stuff.

I don't think TJ debates much, he usually just makes social commentary videos, which is something completely different.

Nerobyrne social commentary in the form of shock jock. makes him hard to listen to. at least to me.

Blake Nelson Even when he's right it's usually for the wrong reasons. Like, he's wrong on an Aristotelian level.

Honestly, I dislike him. He's a too prominent feature to represent the atheist community in the USA.

+Serquss its true. this is the way we to interract with others we minister to. or have discussions with. I've heard it before in training for ministry.

Serquss you are very sensible to look past the differences of your beliefs and his👍

there usually are none on one side

I think a debate can very much be won if a person is not stubborn. 99% of people on both sides are though. Half the time I'll be beating someone in an argument and they'll just go all out on the ad-hominen fallacy (insulting me unrelatedly to the argument) and ignore my points no matter how good the argument is.

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Mau Jo Hitchens vs Willam Lane Craig is my all time favorite check it out

Then you ought to move to rap battles

DIDUKNOW7777 Agnostic and I wholeheartedly agree.

"A Priest, A liar and a pedophile walk into a bar...he sits down and orders a drink...."

Bankers are not usually Pedohiles or rapists, Priests on the other hand....

So a tele-marketer, teacher, and a news reporter walk into a bar...

A Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim walk into a bar. They order some drinks, have a conversation, and enjoy each other's company because they're not total assholes.

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Why would you do that?

But thanks for the tactics. I may be Christian but I can use them too. Thanks :)

+Dingo363 Studios Also, just one more thing. Making this type of stuff makes us look ignorant and uneducated and seems like we're refusing "fact". Just please, to all atheists out there, remember to treat is like the people we are and not uneducated ignorant stubborn little kids.

+Dingo363 Studios if you don't wanna be treated like an "uneducated ignorant stubborn little kid" don't believe things inly uneducated Ignorant stubborn little kids would believe...

+aimar rodriguez Charles Darwin was Christian. Was he an uneducated ignorant little kid?

When two opinions have the same value(heating universe vs cooling universe) is about get the truth, but when is a rational opinion against a irrational opinion of course is about rational opinion must win. · Win against religion is not for be better or get glory but to fade the suffering coming from religions, atheism must win to save millions of lives ended every year for religious hate and dogmas.

@@EliosMoonElios Excuse me, but you're saying that religion causes millions of lives ended each year because of hate and dogmas? I do say that it sounds like you're talking about rather extreme cases. I don't think that non-extreme cases (the vast majority) of religion are causing people to kill each other. Sure there are cults but that's a twisting of beliefs. Also could you explain to me how the issue of is religion true an irrational case vs a rational one?

@@zaarongaming8174 Bible say you should apply sadistic laws there is not way to ignore it and the definition of faith is, as bible and Jesus say, belief without see that is the base of any fanatic mindset, religions PROMOTE FANATIC BEHAVIOR. There is nothing rational in belief deities exist without proofs. "that's a twisting of beliefs" In bible God command dozens of genocides and killing of women, babies, children and elders. A boy was condemn to death for gather sticks in sabbath. Bible say in a wife is not virgin she must be killed. bible say if a virgin girl is raped she must be forced to marry her rapist for life. God allow the Devil torture God's most loyal servant for a bet. Bible say sick people must not be allowed in the church. Bible say if a newborn is sick or paralytic, as sins are punishment from sins, then that baby than never sin is sick because his/her parents sins. Bible is full of sadistic, degenerated and grotesque stuff condoned or demanded by God so don't say theist than do bad thing are fanatics theists. In china people eat dogs and cats, people hate that but GOD SAY "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything".

@@zaarongaming8174 I repeat millions die for religions: religious healing methods like shamans.(dogma) Useless pray-healing.(dogma) Killing albinos in Africa(dogma) Pray and do nothing else for their how welfare.(dogma) Kill rival religions.(hate) Kill gays, atheist , witches, black magic religions.(hate) Millions of Jews in Nazi regimen have a chance to escape but they don't escape because they belief "God will protect us". 30%(2,000,000) of the 8,000,000 of annual deaths in India are caused by bathing or drinking water from the putrid HOLY RIVER OF GANGES for purification or healing purpose(the irony). See? India's religion alone kill 2,000,000 of people every years.

@@EliosMoonElios ​ EliosMoonElios Please cite examples of the sadistic laws you are mentioning from the bible so that I may know what more precisely I'm debating. The bible mentions that jesus is talking to his disciples and says that those who believe without seeing will be rewarded. I don't think that fanatic is a good term to use here because fanatic is usually for an extreme cause. I also don't think that fanatic in this case is bad. What's people being fanatic over this going to do? Best case: get people to go to paradise forever. Not bad eh? Worse case: Causes people to lose a bit of time, but they still get to meet all sorts of people and socialize anyways. Worst case: they lowered their chances of believing in the wrong god by believing in one but they got unlucky and were wrong and idk much about different religions. Still better than being an atheist in 2 out of 3 situations tho. I don't think it's irrational to believe in a deity of some type without proof. If there's a 1% chance of there being a god and them going to hell if they don't believe in that god then a person won't want to risk that so they'll reduce those odds as much as possible. That also works vice versa with a 1% chance of paradise forever you want to increase those odds. Also there is proof which I'll post here: I don't think that it is reasonable in the slightest to think there was at some point nothing and then it just came to life. Therefore you would have to believe that the universe was always here. On the contrary to that you would be able to go back to before life when there was just matter or whatever, and there is infinite time in between life and that because if it always was then you can keep on going back forever, and there would be an infinite amount of time between something happening which you can't get through because it's an infinite amount of time. There'd also be infinite time before an event which would cause time to pass through the infinite amount of time. Cults are fundamentally a twisting of beliefs because they change the bible. Could you cite an instance of genocide being commanded so that I can debate with you? Saying that a boy was stoned for gathering sticks on the sabbath is not a realistic portration of what happened. It was a man for one thing. The context of this is that it takes place in a chapter all about intentional vs unintentional sin. Therefore it is highly likely that this man was intentionally doing this, and was not ignorant. He was deliberately disobeying a command from god himself, and putting himself over god. His heart was not in the right place here, and that is reasonably punishable by death. That is further rectified in a chapter where a man is donating money to the church, but he lies about how much he was giving as a percent of his net worth. We can also give god the benefit of the doubt here that this man probably didn't just mess up once. In those times if a woman had sex and it was not with the man she was to marry it was law that she would die. Jesus mentions that many of the things told to the people of the old testimate were said because their hearts were hard. It is reasonable to think that this is only a law because it was a great wrongdoing to do this act in the past, and so this act having a high punishment is reasonable. This wouldn't apply today though. Your statement about it being a bet is ACTUALLY pretty funny man. Good one. Anyways the earth was designed to be a tribulation and God knew his servant would prevail giving God a good reason to reward him on earth and in heaven, so everybody wins here (except the devil I guess but screw him anyways) also it's not exactly torture. Could you give me the context for the sick people thing? If it's leprosy then yeaaaaah people don't wanna die, and if it's something people get better from then they'd get better and be allowed in so I'd like to know what the context is as it probably doesn't fit into those things I'm thinking. You don't seem to understand the social structure of biblical times. If a woman was raped then she had nobody to marry, and would basically be in a reallllly bad spot. She's also not forced to marry. Her father can do something (I forget what exactly) and save her for someone else. Babies were not punished from their parent's actions (apart from being brought up poorly or not as a christian etc.) that was just a misunderstanding from the people. The bible doesn't condone evil. I'd need you to back up that last part of that for the bible to be filled with nasty stuff or whatever. "so don't say theist than do bad thing are fanatics theists." I don't really understand this, I think you made a typo or something if you could clear that up that would be great. "In china people eat dogs and cats, people hate that but GOD SAY "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.".". People hate that people eat dogs and cats but that's a social issue. That's not a moral issue. There's not really anything in general morality that would say cats and dogs are less valuable than cats. So yeah the bible is fine if you eat cats and dogs. It doesn't mean most Christians are cool with that or aren't though.

This seems malevolent to you? In what way? It seems strange to me, because of all the atheist videos I have watched, this is probably one of the least aggressive. He isn't insulting the religious, performing any ad hominems, or even really making fun of them.

Like I said, based on my previous experiences listening to preachers talk about how others conspire against Christians to relieve them of their faith and hearing atheist friends talk about how "we don't just spend all of our time sitting around and thinking about Christians and ways to screw with them." And then watching a playlist (about two straight hours) of videos about questions to ask, things to say, how to debate Christianity, etc. I'm not saying that it IS malevolent, but that because of my particular amalgam of experiences it can seem to have that appearance. It's the context of all things that makes me giggle.

Juxtavarious Fair enough, all of life is subjective.

Matthijs Noyce And that's part of what makes story telling so much fun :D

Juxtavarious Indeed! (=

Roninkaits I think you would be surprised

Roninkaits He looks like one of those who actually do believe but doesn't know.

It saddens me to admit it but yes, some humans are just that idiotic. Ken Ham I think just knows that he can make a boat load of money (even though he spent a boat load to build an actual boat that will never touch the ocean) I think Ham knows better, if he is smart enough to rip off as many people as he does then he has to know better. He's just deceitful manipulative and a bastard is all.

you're saying you can't believe how idiotic people can be, but you realise people believe in an invisible sky fairy that never has and never actually will exist? it's a fucking pathetic concept and I can't believe people still waste their time with this bible shit. Because believing a book that's written by people who didn't know where the sun went at night is definitely true.

***** come on Bro, can you just share your opinion in a non antagonizing way? You got a point, but ion think Christianity would've gotten this far as to the most practiced religion in the world for no reason

that is because you haven't met me yet everyone I have debated with hates me because they realise I have a point , hates me because they lost the argument, walk away,slap me ,pretend I don't exist ,or all of the above either way I win

jesus is real and living

Jesus is even doing great things in our church.....U are one of the leaving example of Christ......

Suppose I’m wrong about atheism. I’m standing outside the pearly gates and St. Peter, or God Himself, gives me one chance to explain myself. What would I say except “I’m sorry - I got it wrong. I really tried. But I got it wrong. I saw all the different religions, each saying different things, all changing over time. It seemed just a part of human culture, not ultimate truth. I saw unnecessary suffering and couldn’t make heads or tails of it, if you were good and all-powerful. It didn’t make sense to me to posit something existing to explain existence: that gets it backwards. I’m sorry, God, that I didn’t believe in you, but it wasn’t malicious - I just - I just screwed up.” What would Jesus say to that? Would he send me to suffer forever? Do I deserve to be tortured eternally for trying to think rationally?

God can change from male to female very easily we cannot do this. There is no real gay apartheid. Gays are just another human with a label.

Oh please. Education or propaganda? There is a world of difference. There is nothing to this gay apartheid. Everyone wants to be proud of something. Pride is stupid. It is just another bigoted display of separatist elitism.

No look up statisitcs: the percentage is same in all civilised countries wich maked it natural, other animals do it wich makes it also natural these facts can b witnesed by papers of universities and documented proof you can witness, also since i can support ma claim and you support your claims with own assumptions that otherd have... Pride? Wich you can't back off either, result i am right

Oh, are you arguing at cross purposes with your idea of what I am saying? Oh, sorry. It was my fault for not expressing myself clearly. There is no magical force in this universe, this is mere lust, that is all, nothing important, don't waste time condemning people for lust manifesting in different categories. Water hole you poke or whatever you allow into your life it is not the same as love, it means nothing. Love is real. Love has nothing to do with satisfying the lusty demands of the body. It has to do with your soul. A man who rapes his wife in the same way that men violate each other is no different. They should all be ashamed of their lust and control themselves. Fith cannot approach pure fire, it must burn to ashes.

Watever*

I feel like you're trying to get someone here mildly mad

and the proof is ..... ?! oh w8 , nothing

john shoffner stil there are things in it that happens to day

The most dangerous creation of man is God. (c)

Allen Tolentino the creature that trown rapist in hell? Humans are the most dangereus creature they are using the free wil GOD gave them for evil and ate being punished for it

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faith fāTH/ noun 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. "this restores one's faith in politicians" synonyms: trust, belief, confidence, conviction; More antonyms: mistrust 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

religious nutjobs don't define their terms clearly when they argue that we have the same faith in science as they do in god. It is nice to see that you ignore things that don't suit you in all books, not just the goat herder's handbook.

chris worth I bet you have faith that a "multiverse" exists lol

no

George the hacker Welp, I tried.

slay them like your avatar! ...Wait no that wasn't advice I was supposed to give. Slay them like the christian god. No, that's the same piece of advice, well no it is worse.

Christian here as well

caro monge he comes from a Christian background, so of course he's going to focus on Christianity a lot more

This. Every atheist I've ever encountered is utterly obsessed with refuting God.

Almost every atheist I have ever encountered doesn't care about any God whatsoever

@@charimonfanboy Same, lol. Being an atheist myself, I know that many atheists just say that there is no evidence for God, thus you can't postulate that He exists. There are atheists with other viewpoints of course, such as agnostics, who just say that they "don't know" whether God exists or not. I find it quite rude when people try and say atheists want to disprove God. No, they just want proof that God exists.

In what way is that a satanic verse... It's a god dam expression like comeon man you must be uncomfortable with your religion. did those seeds get planted in your head?? Let's hope you reliase your wasting time going to church , reading fairy tales, and praying to the ceiling have a good one!

gadfg gfeed It sounds very satanic, trying to get people to give up their faith and thus hope, which will lead to lower quality of life. But missery likes company I guess...

In what way is religion making a better quality of life? I ask because I'm assumeing you think athiests are bad people who do nothing for the greater I man kind . And it's not getting them to give up it's getting them to open their eyes an see that life can be awesome without someone elses views guiding you every step of the way through life I just don't see a need to devote my life to any organized religion because there all wrong since every religon seems to think there right ssoooo I'll play it safe an enjoy life without interference from any thing, person, (GOD), religion ect...getting in my way from being happy and doin what's RIGHT not whats right . Best part I give my self all the credit not from believing in god Good day

gadfg gfeed There are different ways to practice religion, organized religion is just most recognized. You can believe in God without going to church, or you can believe in eternal soul without particular deity, but to be atheist is to believe we are animals with enlarged central nervous system. People generally are not equipped to deal with this bleak outlook on life, mainly because it isn't true and to promote atheism is akin to promote depression.

"..believe we are animals with enlarged central nervous system." I thought atheists define their ideology as a "lack of belief", or so some told me