Persuasive Speech (HELP!!!)

5 minutes isn't long to talk. I'd spend most of the time talking about a specific Christian example, just find the worst example you can think of that has good references in the Bible. Then I'd end by saying that this is just one example from Christianity, there are more (list them), there are more in other religions too (list them, especially funny ones), and then I'd say that even if these are the worst examples and the audience may think that much of religion is a positive influence, it's not religious to just pick and choose which bits to follow, the Bible says you should follow it all - and so we have to take the most extreme aspects of religion and decide whether we want them to control our society or not. It's an all or nothing decision with religion.

 

 

 

Visual aid could be a blown up picture of some Christian zealots, depending on what specific example you use. The obvious example is those crazy Christians who think the gays are going to end the world (westboro baptist church). You could even use one of the signs they use ("God hates [bleep]s"). Would be a nice way to get people's attention at the start.

I'm not sure if he should focus so explicitly on Christians. It's probably a little more liberal where he lives, but here you'd be cast into the goths if you did something like that. You'd be blacklisted for the rest of high school, all because high school kids have to take the extremes in religion.