Atheist Cage Match Challenge: Rules
- Each document must be a single html file no greater than 50Kb.
- Each document's first paragraph must be worded precisely as
specified
in
the next rule, and must contain
- an href link to the opponent's document;
- an href link to a page containing all and only these rules; and
- a "more materials" link, that is not mentioned or referenced in
any way
anywhere else in the document.
- After an optional title and author credit, the first paragraph of
each
document must be:
These are currently my best arguments {for|against} Christianity,
chosen
specifically against the contrary arguments here,
and in accordance with these
debating rules.
Here are more materials that
support
my thesis but that are not as important as the material I present
here.
I believe the arguments in this document alone make a better case for
my
thesis than the opposing document makes for the contrary thesis. I
believe
that an educated and reasonable non-specialist who reads just these
opposing
documents should recognize the superiority of my thesis without having
to also read any other material that either side makes available or
reference
to. If anything in this document or my supporting materials violate the
rules of this challenge, it constitutes an admission by me that the
contrary arguments are superior to mine.
- No other external links are allowed, except to source materials
listed
at earlychristianwritings.com
and hosted on pages consisting primarily of original source material
and
containing no polemical content or links. (e.g. Bible Gateway, but not
the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.) In these rules, "link" means any way
of
facilitating or suggesting navigation by the reader or her browser to
any
web page.
- Each author may modify his document at any time.
- The rules are always open to modification, but only at the
agreement of
both authors.