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Now, for the first point, this should be of little difficulty. We already know the Lord resides in heaven. Now, as shown in the story of the Tower of Babel, all we need to do to get to heaven is to build a tower high enough. For, in Genesis 11:4-6, it is said

"Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

So, if our ancestors are capable of building a tower tall enough to reach heaven out of primarily mud, then I am confident that, in this day and age, we are able to do the same if not better.

This quote also answers part of the second question. It is clearly said that, if we do reach heaven, nothing will be impossible for us. This means if we force our way into heaven, we will gain omnipotence. For, otherwise God would have no reason to freak out and stop the building of the tower by scattering us into different countries and giving us many different languages as He does in Genesis 11:7-8:

"Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city."

So, it shows that if we all get to heaven then we become all-powerful. This solves how to fight God, and how to get to him. All we need now is a way to defend ourselves as we build the tower and climb it. Well, then we can look no further then Judges 1:19.

"And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."

Yes, iron chariots rendered the inhabitants of the valley immune to God's power. So, now we can clearly see that iron can thwart God. So, we simply build our towers out of iron or stronger materials. The fact that we currently have such high buildings can be explained by this: God couldn't knock them down because of their sheer strength.

So, if we clad ourselves in iron or something stronger as we climb our tower into heaven, we gain omnipotence. So not only are we omnipotent, we are clad in iron which thwarts God's supposed omnipotence. Now, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are defenceless against our combined might. Sorry Yahweh, your time is up. We've found many far superior replacements.

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One example he used against logic is this scenario:

1) Person A makes a logical argument

2) Person B proves Person A's argument wrong

3) Person A says "tough" and puts his flawed argument into action anyway

However, the bad action only is carried out in step 3, which is coincidentally when logic is thrown out the window. It is when logic was ignored that evil could reign unchallenged.

A second example of the same nature was looking at Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was taking Darwin's theory of natural selection (commonly coined to be 'survival of the fittest') and using it to justify the exploitation of less developed nations and racist mindsets. The scenario used in this example was actually that of Hitler. My friend argued that it was the idea of natural selection and cleansing the gene pool that caused Hitler to carry out his genocide of the Jewish race.

There are two problems to this though. The first is what is known as the 'naturalist fallacy'. This is the idea that what is natural is somehow good or right. This is a common logical fallacy used against gays (I don't like it, it's just not natural), and could be used to condone things such as rape (society makes us suppress out sexuality, these are just natural impulses. I am just passing down my genes!). However, how things naturally work by no means shows us how they should work. So even if Hitler was right about everything, natural selection is simply how nature works, and by no means says we should morally follow the example.

Secondly, is the fact that Hitler's entire system was based off of a certain faith. Hitler believed that, since the Jews are inferior to the Germans, it logically follows that if he killed the Jews he would have cleansed the gene pool and improved humanity. However, what evidence does he have that the Germans were genetically superior to the Jewish? None, obviously, as none exists. So the premise to the argument was false. Logic failed, and his belief system was faith based. Are you starting to see a recurring trend?

Yes, it is people that do the harm, not religion in itself, but values intrinsic to some religions condone things such as genocide. And when you have faith that the Bible is the word of God, you can use this to justify your beliefs, to add others to your cause, and to eventually act on your beliefs.

Guns don't kill people, humans do. But if you give a billion people guns someone's going to get shot. Religion doesn't harm people, people harm people. But give a whole bunch of people different religions, and a holy war is going to start. Discrimination is going to run rampant. People will find a sense of community, but only on an "us versus them" mentality. When they all believe that they're right, and no amount of evidence, logic, or argument could ever sway them, you find a group based on faith. A group predisposed to belief without question, action without justification, and loyalty without waver. Then you see horror beyond your wildest dreams.

Humans cause this horror, but religion really shouldn't make it so damn easy for us.

The seven deadly sins, or cardinal sins, are:

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Laziness
5. Anger
6. Jealousy
7. Arrogance

When analyzing these it is not too difficult to find two common threads which tie them all together. The first thread is that each of the cardinal sins are temptations to be indulged into. Lust begs you to indulge in sex, gluttony in food and drink, greed in wealth and so on. Each and every one of the seven deadly sins depict the filling of some sort of a mental (or, if you insist, spiritual) void within the sinner. The second thread connecting these sins is that each of them goes against rational thought. Laziness, or the indulgence in idleness, struggles with the logic that one should be doing more work. Anger, or indulgence in rage, struggles with the logic that one should not act rashly. Jealousy, or indulgence in comparison struggles with the logic that one should praise others for their accomplishments, not resent them. When combining these similarities it is no great feat to conclude a final definition of sin, being “To commit a sin is to indulge in something to fill a hole in one’s life, despite it being irrational to do so.”

Now, armed with a viable definition, let us inspect the heart of religion, let us inspect faith. If faith is truly a sin we must show that it is filling a certain hole in someone’s life, and that there is no rational reason for that hole to be filled. To satisfy the first part of the definition, imagine asking one who is religious (and if you are religious even better, you can think about it by yourself), what they would imagine a world without God to be like. If the discussion or thought process is allowed to proceed for long enough, the word empty is bound to arise. “My life would be empty without God” is a near-instinctual answer for those of the faith. For, if God is to be inside someone, He is bound to leave an empty space if due to some event He was no longer present. If one says God does not fill some form of void inside of them, then they are saying they have no room for God.

To satisfy the second component of the definition of sin, faith must be in breach of logical thought. Now, once again this is not a task of extreme difficulty, as even many who belong to a religious faith are willing to admit atheism is a logical choice, but simply an empty one. The core of logic is that something must be proven before it is believed. The existence of God, similar to the existence of a purple, invisible marshmallow floating in front of your face at all times, has not been proven or disproven. In cases like this, logic dictates you are not to believe in the existence of this. The 14th century reasoning process known as Occam’s razor, the idea that given two possible explanations for a phenomenon the one with the least entities involved is more likely, solidifies this notion.

For example, when faced with these two possibilities:

1. One may see in front of themselves because the purple marshmallow, which would block their line of sight, is invisible (two entities) and;
2. One may see in front of themselves because there in no purple marshmallow which would block their line of sight (one entity)

It is easy to see the second is favourable; a belief in the first without evidence would simply complicate things without reason, as there are more entities than the minimum possible.

A similar example would be:

1. The universe was created by God (two entities)
2. The universe is naturally occurring (one entity)

Once again, there is no need to complicate matters by involving the existence of an unnecessary entity.

So, having proven that faith is both used to fill a void in one’s life, and that there is no rational reason for that void to be filled, it becomes obvious that faith is to be classified as a sin. And, as a sin, you will be put in a negative light when you are looked down upon by the ultimate judge; God. Having said that, there is little left but to address any qualms one may have with this conclusion.

The immediate thought which would strike anyone as odd is that God would make it a sin to believe in Him. The religious community, usually content to lap up ideas at a sermon or from the Bible (for those who actually bother to read it in its entirety), at this point is in an uproar. While they accept that God arbitrarily created earth in six days, and that our planet is a mere 6000 years old, an odd feeling comes over them when reading this: That doesn’t make sense! And as they wipe the dust off their little thinking caps and prepare to smite you with some form of holy (or full of holes if you will) logic you can kick back and let them deal with the barrier you have been trying to cross for all too long: God works in mysterious ways. As not to be hypocritical though, one can ask “If god desires to be believed, why wouldn’t He prove His existence to us?”. They might mention some nonsense about free will and “He doesn’t need to!”, but if pushed long enough they’ll ultimately fall back on the tried and true “It isn’t for humans to understand!”. However, you need just kindly point them to the similarity between that and you’re initial defence and they should just as kindly shut up.

So, in summary it has been concluded that:

1. To commit a sin is to indulge in something to fill a hole in one’s life, despite it being irrational to do so
2. Each of the cardinal sins adhere to this description
3. Faith exists to fill a hole that begs for greater purpose, justice, and direction
4. Faith defies basic logic as well as Occam’s razor
5. Since faith is a sin, you become a lesser being in the eyes of the universal judge, God
6. God works in conveniently mysterious ways