THR THE NARRATIVE THAT GOD IS ALWAYS RIGHT

The concept of God being the only right thing is something that we believe is of the
past. Let’s dissect what the narrative is.

The narrative tells us, or religious communities that believe in a certain form of a
higher power under the name of “God” will always show them how to actually act and
is basically justice and good in a human form. Now, what has never been answered is
the question of where does this “God” figure suddenly just pop up? Catholic’s say it’s
from the bible, Islam’s say that it’s from the Al-Quran and all those kind of things, but
let’s go even further back. It’s well known that religion derives from the Middle Stone
Age regarding the religious drawings and therefore when cultures develop, religion
does as well.

What happens is that many religions start popping up, and we’ve never actually
questioned it. Who is the person who wrote the bible, Al-Quran, or even created the
entire concept of religion and “God”? In the bible, God is shown as someone who has
the power to change water to wine, to heal the sick and is basically overflowing with
kindness. I’m not much of a religious person, although I do believe in a higher power,
not necessarily talking about “God” itself.

It’s been brought to the people the idea that God is someone who paves the way and
is basically the dictionary definition of good. But this is where the debate steps in. Why
is it that we actually follow this “God” that we can’t even confirm the existence of or
even trace where the belief starts? Several arguments:

First argument is regarding the understanding towards passages in books or norms

that religion provides us with. Religion is one of the very first few concepts that you
teach to children in a family, and its not rare to have conservative people act under
religion. Now, why is it so important to actually see that God isn’t always right is
because the depiction or everyone’s understanding to this upper power is different.

Take the scenario where there is a passage in the bible that says homosexuals are
sinners. But, are they really? This kind of passage sticks in the head of conservatives
and make them irrationally hate homosexuals simply under the fact that their “God”
does not accept homosexuals. But, times are changing and we are starting question
what God actually wants. We live in a generation where what you do when you’re
alive will always affect where you go at the time you die.

The two options are either going to heaven or going to hell. That’s what most people
are actually afraid of. They’re afraid to step up and question things about religion
because when they do, the reaction they get is “you’re a sinner for questioning God!”
or “You can’t question the Lord, he’s the Almighty!”

When in fact, there’s nothing to be scared of. Just because they believe in an higher
power, does not mean that whoever they condemn as sinners will instantly somehow
get a punishment just for not following their terms of righteousness. When many
religions exist, the line and the general view of righteousness become blurry. Because
if Islam thinks that doing Jihad is a good thing, whereas Catholics see that killing your
self, even if it is for a greater good, is a sin, it starts to become more confusing.

Why is it better to not have this narrative? In a nutshell, this narrative is also why
atheists are always seen as wrong, simply because they don’t believe in a higher
power and oppressed for that because they don’t belong in the community where
they believe in a higher power. God is always somehow correlated to the idea of
“sacred” and because they do many things that are deemed as nice, it’s seen as the
most righteous thing to do in that kind of situation.

The most tangible harm that can be presented is the idea that people identify with
religious beliefs. Some have the mindset that religion is what will dictate a person’s
behavior or actions. But, that’s not right. The reaction that comes to when you try to
defy the higher power is always “you’re crazy” or something in the lines of that which
is very much dangerous. When religion is what you use to judge whether a person is
right or wrong, that’s when the view of righteousness also becomes blurry. That’s
harmful because when you lose sight of that righteousness or the mind where what
you think is right may be different with others, that’s when you start judging other
people for their actions and put no contemplation to their side of the story.

Opposition may try to argue with the fact that religion also teaches us the right values
to start off with, but debunk this with the fact that sure, it can teach us the right
values, but only if you perceive the passages and all those in a right way as well to
actually accept those right values. That’s why the perception of passages needs to
have a general idea and there shouldn’t be any of those wrong misconceptions or
twisting words of the passage to play in your favor.

Clashes that may show up in this debate would regard the idea of whether God
should be seen as the role model of righteousness. Opposition may try to bring up
the idea that God brings up correct values, and how the bible or Al-Quran itself has
already shown to us the very base of the norms that exist in society. To an extent, it is
true, but again, we believe this argument won’t work when we’ve already proven to
you that these values heavily rely on the perception of the people to it. There is no
general perception and why that’s so dangerous is already explained before, so that
argument should fall, and the clash goes to team government.

Another clash could be regarding whether there is a need for a general perception or
not. Team Government stands on the idea that there needs to be at least a basic
general perception as to avoid the misconceptions or misleading passages that can be
taken or twisted in many ways. Team Opposition however has to explain how this
narrative brings more good than harms that we’ve already presented to you and we
think it’s not going to be enough to actually go against what we’ve already presented
to you. Even if Team Opposition brings up ideas of how the norms are created from
religions and culture, we’ve said it before that “God” itself does not have a clear origin
so why is it that we take that higher power as the epitome of righteousness. I rest my
case, team Government should win.