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If you engage in a debate over your faith’s legitimacy with a non-believer, and you retort with “go read the Bible” etc, you have lost that debate. That’s admitting you just skim your own scripture for whatever answers are convenient to you.
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Anonymous 6d

“SpiderMan is real!! Just go read the comics!!”

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Anonymous 6d

I’m a Christian, but you can’t try to convince someone the word of Christ by using the Bible as your source. If they don’t believe in the Bible, why would you use it as a source 😭

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Anonymous 6d

Sorry to break it to you, but books are a great way to learn things!😁 Ngl “go read the Bible” is a lazy and cliché rebuttal, but it’s also good advice! Wouldnt it be irresponsible to engage in a debate on something you haven’t educated yourself on? They should have cited specific bible scriptures to get their point across. Both of yall are half-assing it 🤩

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Anonymous 6d

attempted to read the Bible this past summer just to be able to debate homophobes and transphobes who use the Bible as a justification for their hate better and it’s lowk like really boring. Will try again when I’m less busy fs

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6d

It’s a boring read but it’s also full of So. Much. Fucking. Awful. Nonsense.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

I think God would agree with you. The Bible we have today has been tampered with, misinterpreted, weaponized, mistranslated MULTIPLE times. But the entire text isn’t dismissible. Think of it like a nice chocolate cake with bullshit ass sprinkles on top

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

Mm, more like a shit pie with chocolate frosting and candles. The text is problematic at its core.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

That’s assuming I haven’t read the Bible myself. I have.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6d

This

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

First chapter says the world was created in six days. I think the whole text is dismissible regardless dude.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Were you there when the world was created? 😂 that’s why its called faith buddy

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

No. None of us were. That’s why I trust the tested research about how the world came to be instead of a two thousand year old book that says an invisible wizard just made it all from nothing.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Especially when so many of the myths presented are traceable to older ones (looking at you, Epic of Gilgamesh…). Even their main “one and only god” started as a minor god in a whole pantheon.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

I could just as easily say we all came from fairy dust and it would hold as much weight. They always like to bombard you with questions and corner you into saying “I don’t know” when their answer, that they think is so much better, is just “I don’t know. God did it.”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

They really do love going to extra mile with their “I don’t know” always ending in “but my sky daddy…” Can’t forget that the eradication of cancer is entirely too much to ask for, but Cheryl’s pie at church was blessed by their god personally.

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