Religion Debate - Motion by eshan nandan roy

Argument 1 - Organized Religion Provides Structure, Guidance, and Accountability

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:25:27 UTC

Argument 2 - Community and Social Support Are Vital to Faith

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:35:13 UTC

Argument 3 - Preservation of Cultural History and Historical Traditions

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:35:57 UTC

Argument 4: Organized Religion as a Force for Social Good

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:36:16 UTC

5. Risk of Fragmentation and Extremism Without Shared Doctrine

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:36:48 UTC

Argument 6. Faith Requires Lifelong Learning — Clergy and Institutions Provide That

eshannandanroy — 2025-06-01 02:37:07 UTC

Argument 2

duyphamnh2209 — 2025-06-01 02:48:54 UTC

The opp said that when we celebrate with community, organized religion will provides support with the celebration of joy. However, we celebrate in joy in a wrong way. People just take the event to gather together to drink beers, liquors.

However, when we celebrate with joy like that way, it means that we do not take it seriously, that shows that we are disrespecting with god.

Raven - Rebuttal (Argument 5)

minhhanguyen2803 — 2025-06-01 02:51:34 UTC

The fifth point on the opposition team stated that “Without a shared organizer, there is a high risk of fragmentation thus leading to entirely individualized belief system.” Even though yes without any shared organization they which would lead to fragmentation. However they stated that with our own belief system then religion would become divided, but this statement is false because in Japan they would still share a common organizer (being the spiritual god) but they still have individualized beliefs due to the vast spiritual nature of that religion.

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nguyen4kiiet — 2025-06-01 03:02:35 UTC

Argument 4 : Same with argument 2, in that organized religion can create tension between people with differing belief. For example the during the reformation period in Europe, lots of protestant and catholic were burn at the stake for "heresy". In the USA, atheist and Muslims face higher rates of employment discrimination due to the mainly Christian community shunning them.

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nguyen4kiiet — 2025-06-01 03:16:39 UTC

Argument 6 : While clergy and institutions may provide lifelong learning, they are also places where corruption flourishes, which leads to exploitation, erosion of public trust, and the misuse of authority for personal gain, causing many to lose faith in religious teachings and even in God. For example, For decades, widespread sexual abuse of children by priests was covered up by church authorities across countries including the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and Germany. Survivors were silenced, abusers were moved rather than punished, and billions of dollars were paid in legal settlements. Many people lost faith in God after that .But if organized religious groups do not exist, dedicated people can find their own way to God while people seeking personal gains will be unable to exploit other's faith

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nguyen4kiiet — 2025-06-01 04:54:43 UTC

"Organized religions provide a sense of community, direction and are vital to faith" Rebuttal 2, the second speaker said "Organized religion can be a force for social good" Yes i agree but rebuttal 4 .The first speaker also argues that "Organized religion provides structure and guidance" leads to my main argument : Organized religion often stifles the development of new interpretations of God's teachings, causing religious belief to stagnate rather than evolve and be understood in a way that may align more closely with God's original intentions. A new perspective, a breath of fresh wind can bring new ideologies that even scholars haven't yet considered. A solution to the incorrect interpretation that believe might have of God's teaching mentioned by the first speaker is to set boundary for the belief, make a sort of guidebook for people, telling them of the dangerous area they should avoid and the safe one they should stick too. This allow for personal interpretation but still keep people away from dangerous interpretation. In conclusion while organized religion might provide a sense of structure, guidance, community and provide support, the resulting escalation and the stagnation of religious belief is too big of a negative to justify having organized religion, therefore i strongly agree with the motion "This House Perfers a world where each believer established their own connect to God, rather than establishing their connections through organized religions"