Persuasive Topic Speech: Christianity

The truth is, religion, was something invented in the ancient days to fill the space of science. It gave the people hope, made them follow their king, and gave the church power. It gave them something to believe in, a final goal and to eradicate their fear of death. Religion were created by humans to explain the world that they could not understand, and so it is my belief that ‘god’ is the child of the human mind, rather than us being the children of god. When it was created, along with it came the beliefs of creationism and the fact that the universe revolved around the earth. These were proven to be wrong by modern science. The fact that these were wrong makes the religion less credible because the creators and followers of the religion in history believed in these wrong facts that were directly related to Christianity. People who opposed these were punished heavily by the church for being heretics, when in the first place, where always right. The Catholic Church itself is already abdicating some of its hard-held beliefs in creationism. I ask you, why is it that the Catholic Church is ‘apologizing’ for prosecuting people like Charles Darwin for putting forward evolution? Because it realises that its religion has too many holes in it, and that parts of it are wrong, putting forward the rest it believes in for questioning.

The fact that there were so many different religions in different ethical countries makes god even less credible. There will be people who have never heard of Jesus or God. If God created them all and is everywhere, why is it that these people have no idea who he is? Christianity was the religion of the Western Culture, and since that culture dominates today’s modern world, that is said to be the human and the one religion. But other countries follow other religions. Muslim. Buddhism. If ‘god’ created all, then how come only one type of culture knew of him in the past?

Why did Jesus not appear in China, heal a sick woman, appear in Africa and cure a man of malaria?

Given that God is good in nature how can we explain the vast quantity of wars that have resulted from the Bible’s various interpretations? God is also powerful so surely He knew that these wars would arise as a result of the Bible – so why did He decide to dictate it in Hebrew, one of the most ambiguous languages known to humankind? Surely He would have had a prophet in every country on every planet reproduce a local version in the local language – this would have been more moral and would have caused less bloodshed than allowing us to mistranslate it!