Religion has had a negative impact on the world

""This is not the main point of the debate" oh but all you did was quote the bible as your argument, if its not the point, why are you referencing it? if religion does for some reason have a negative impact on the world, the reasons we should look at this is how the bible should be interpreted, Which means any killing that has been done IN THE NAME of religion is complete and utter stupidity, most Religions see this as blasphemy you cannot say that religion is having an impact on the world when rather it is some of the people following that religion is using it as an excuse to kill." The argument "Which means any killing that has been done IN THE NAME of religion is complete and utter stupidity" could dismiss the even part of my last argument but in no way does it have any effect on the doctrines part of the argument. Lets go over some of them again and I will explain why this isn't simply in the name of religion, it is because of religion. Lets look at infant genital mutilation, it is expressly commanded in Leviticus 12:3 now just so we are clear Leviticus 12 is a chapter titled purification after childbirth and Leviticus 12:3 expressly commands "And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.". Now I'm not even interested in your apologetics in relation to this verse, this debate is not to do with the truth to the claims made in the bible it is simply whether or not religion has done more harm than good and the common interpretation of Leviticus 12:3 has lead to the mutilation. The circumcision doctrine is central to the Jewish faith and has lead to the mutilation of at least tens of millions of children this is directly because of a doctrine of the Jewish faith it is not simply people who want to mutilate children using holy scripture to justify the mutilation of children. Now lets look at physiological torture, many children are constantly threatened with hell fire across the world. This is again not people who just want to abuse children this is people who threaten these children with hell because of their interpretation of the bible/quran/pearl of great price (technically I think it's outer darkness)/other holy book which mentions hell. This is not the actions of religious people this is a doctrine of multiple religions which teaches that unbelievers are destined for hell and this is people desperately trying to protect these children from the infinite torture of hell promised in verses such as quran 4:56. This is again not people justifying the physiological torture of children with their chosen religious text this is people torturing children precisely because of what their religious texts tell them. I could do this for Indoctrination, female genital mutilation, labeling of children, suppression of homosexuality, shariah law and implementation of religious doctrines to the general population but I think you get the point, these doctrines are not simply religious people justifying these disgusting actions with their holy book this is people doing these actions because of their holy book. "Back to the main point you might rebut and say; "Ok then, what is the meaning behind the conemnation of homesexual people?" I would say to that one again; "Inspired by god, written by men" Humanity 2000 years ago were primitive and brutish yes, that reflects through the bible yes. do we follow everything in the bible? no. Bible is ok with slavery, we today know better, the only thing that i can agree with you here is that the bible is a little (understatement) outdated. our people back then were being introduced with a moral system with the bible, the only moral;s back then to follow were the bible's but the bible is written by men and men are going to make mistakes. so i do not believe everything in the bible. back to my first point." As I've said already the truth or otherwise of the claims made in the bible don't matter to this debate, allow me to demonstrate with an example: Claim one: Zyklon b is dangerous to humans (demonstrably true) Claim two: The idea that zyklon b is dangerous to humans has had a negative impact on the world (don't see who could argue with that). You see the truth of second claim has no bearing on the truth of the first. I am an atheist but my atheism has no bearing on this debate. Just look at what only the doctrines I have mentioned have done I could bring in more but I feel that it is unlikely that you can bring in significant good that religion has done that would counteract just the doctrine of circumcision let alone any of the others.