Eliseo Soriano’s Imaginary Argument

If you’re a Christian or to be specific a member of Eliseo Soriano’s “Ang Dating Daan” or ADD for short, chances are you’ve already read Soriano’s triage against atheism.

Using Soriano’s blog post (The Claim That There Is No God Is An Escape From All Realities), well what can I say…maybe instead of making a rebuttal I think it would be fitting to make an article about “How not to debate an atheist” instead. Using Mr. Soriano’s article we’re going to talk about poor methods employed by amateur apologists in dealing with atheism.

If we read the entire article there really isn’t any argument presented. Most of his blather doesn’t embark upon the issue of atheism and believe me, quoting Bible verses is really a poor tactic when dealing with atheism. Remember, to face an atheist Mr. Soriano should gave us a good reason why atheism is not a rational position.

So if we remove all the useless Bible verses in the article that tell us nothing about atheism, we are left with…eh nothing to talk about.

Stalin, Pol-Pot and Hitler?
After writing nothing about atheism, Mr. Soriano then included some infamous character to enhance his so-called argument.

So may I ask, “What’s the connection?”

Ah…these people were “atheists” so they killed a lot of people. Is that it?

But Joshua and Samson also killed a lot of innocent people? In fact, if you read the Bible, God’s generals also find it irresistible to do wanton killing of women, old folks, children and even cattle and live stocks.

Those Islamic terrorists that crashed jumbo jets in buildings, they believe that a god exists. Jim Jones, Mussolini, Franco and Saddam Hussein, these people also believe in a supernatural Supreme Being as Baise Pascal quoted, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

But unlike Mr. Soriano, I will not say that since some theists are capable of killing, therefore all theists are killers. Guilt by association is a poor way to male a valid point.

How About Hitler?
What does Hitler got to do with atheism?

Did Mr. Soriano know that Hitler is also a believer like him?

There is no evidence whatsoever that Adolf Hitler was an atheist. In fact, on his book Mein Kemp and his speeches, Hitler always mentioned God. Not only was Hitler a Christian, but he used Christianity to justify his acts against the Jews.

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It
points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers,
recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them
and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In
boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which
tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive
out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for
the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with
deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it
was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have
no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for
truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we
are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I
have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these
men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I
would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did
not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day
this poor people is plundered and exploited.
-Adolf Hitler, in his
speech in Munich on 12 April 1922

[Note, "brood of vipers" appears in Matt. 3:7 & 12:34. John 2:15 depicts Jesus driving out the money changers (adders) from the temple. The word "adders" also appears in Psalms 140:3]

This is probably the first time and this is the first country in which
people are being taught to realize that, of all the tasks which we have to face,
the noblest and most sacred for mankind is that each racial species must
preserve the purity of the blood which God has given it....

The greatest
revolution which National Socialism has brought about is that it has rent
asunder the veil which hid from us the knowledge that all human failures and
mistakes are due to the conditions of the time and therefore can be remedied,
but that there is one error which cannot be remedied once men have made it,
namely the failure to recognize the importance of conserving the blood and the
race free from intermixture and thereby the racial aspect and character which
are God's gift and God's handiwork. It is not for men to discuss the question of
why Providence created different races, but rather to recognize the fact that it
punishes those who disregard its work of creation....

As I look back on
the great work that has been done during the past four years you will understand
quite well that my first feeling is simply one of thankfulness to our Almighty
God for having allowed me to bring this work to success. He has blessed our
labors and has enabled our people to come through all the obstacles which
encompassed them on their way....

Today I must humbly thank Providence,
whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring
to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights
as a nation.

-Adolf Hitler, before the Reichstag, 30 Jan. 1937

Mit Uns' (God is with us)

I hope I'll find better arguments on Mr. Soriano's continuation of his article, but for now, all in all, his first part was rather dull and boring. It seems Mr. Soriano is just a beginner when it come in dealing with atheism.

Remember, when a God believer face an atheist or plans to disprove atheism, the issue is not to slander the atheists but to show that not believing in a god or gods is unreasonable.

Until next time,

John the Atheist

FLASH REPORT:

I have seen his part 2 and boy...the sequel is more useless compare with the part 1. *yawn*

I think a Part Two reply is inappropriate.

John the Atheist