After having a good argument with Jun Wei, and collecting from experiences from previous arguments, I have finally distilled(in my opinion) some of the most infallable arguments I can come up with against being in a religion.

The first one is based upon the logic’s fallacies. A typical Christian who converts you tends to construct arguments in certain manners which is what I personally utilise against them.

First question to ask would be very simple: Why did you chose to believe in Christianity? The most common answer would be because the Bible blah blah blah. So one has to believe what the Bible says to want to be in the religion? It would seem so since there is no other compelling reasons outside of religion to persuade me that religion is worth to follow. Thus in order for me to want to join a religion, I would have to already believe in the religion or its texts it bases itself on.

Thus I construct the following argument. I begin with a set of conditionals based on utilitarian approaches.
P1: If something does not benefit me or makes me better off, then I am better off not be in it.
P2: To believe in Christianity, I have to believe what is in the Bible
P3: Believing in the Bible would meant I have to had already accept Christianity and believe in its teachings.
C1: The only reasons given for me to join Christianity comes from Christianity itself.
C2: There is nothing out of Christianity that gives me reasons to believe in the religion.
P4: Christians uses circular arguments in persuading me to convert, assuming I am a believer to justify truth in the Bible so that I can become a believer.
MC1: The arguments given are not strong enough to show me that joining Christainity makes me any better. I.e. closer to God, knowing the only path to God.
MC2: I will not join Christainity.

I challenge any pastor to debate with me on whether anyone should be joining their religion. The above format looks chunky and unwieldy but would sincerely ask anyone to challenge and find flaws in my argument.

The other simple argument is quite basic. How do you know you are reading God’s word. Why are there so many editions? Because of bad translations due to the imperfect human. The Bible was still written by imperfect man who could have edited the documents to suit them, the Bible was published and copied by these same imperfect beings, thus the final Bible is imperfect. If anyone is to claim to know what God had truly wanted for Christians, then he/she would have needed to have read the original Greek edition or the cleaned up Luther’s German one, rather then the English ones. Have your pastor don’t so? Then how can he be preaching based upon a book which is far from perfect and not neccessary what God wanted? How can anyone based his/her faith on a book with such dubious backgrounds? Is the Bible even complete?

As such I conclude it is far better to not be in a religion. The only pluses of being in a religion is it gives you a sense of direction. Which sadly can be misleading as seen in the latest AWARE saga. As a true ontological or spiritual filling tool, it fares no better than one’s personal beliefs as well as opinions about God self-formed. As a social construct, it is highly successful and can be used easily to bring more people to a common goal. Just appeal to religion, it work fast.

-wonght
God is not great, not because he is not great himself but the pictures created of him is so.