Christianity does more harm than good

As you have stated earlier, i will try to stay away from saying Christianity can cause harm because of how one group of radicals may think(as you stated westboro would be an example of this). I will ask however that we do not overlook the implications of this. Any religion or any belief will have radicals within it, but remember the radicals are a product of that specific religion and are acting out of their belief structures towards it. For this next part I will ask that we are debating under the assumption that Christianity as a whole is made of up many different secs. Where as Catholicism, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons, Calvinists and so forth may have a different foundation within their world view, they all accept that there is a God of the Christian Bible and that the bible is infallible. I will start out by addressing points that everyone will see as wrong and that have occurred throughout history. I will start out with the point you mentioned in your opening statement, and that is the crusades. While one may argue that the people in that time period had a different belief structure, and it is not a reflection upon Christians today, we can not forget they acted out those massacres in the name of the Christian God. Countless people were murdered because of intolerance and bigotry, and that is unforgivable no matter what time period it occurred in. I will even go as far as to state, that hitter was motivated out of religious thoughts. In Mein Kampf he states "I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. " - Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 2. To add more to this point, a phrase was engraved on every Nazi belt buckle. The phrase was "Gott Mit Uns" which translates to God with us in modern English. Where as my opponet may state the actions of one man do not represent the beliefs of the whole, we have to acknowledge that he himself states that all acts he did was in the name of God. This is not also just the beliefs of one man, everyone one of his followers believes this as well. They sincerely believe the were purging the earth of evil in the name of God. My opponent also asked me to avoid the argument that it limits civil rights such as gay marriage. I will leave this point alone for the most part but must mention it in small regards to the fact that it influences state and federal politics. We took on separation of church and state for a reason, and still to this day intolerance is bred from belief. This next point I will try to be careful with because it is a hard point to make and I have to do so by making my opponent and everyone understand how it effects us as a society. While individual acts of idiocy do no represent the church as a whole, when they happen in mass numbers we have to admit that people are acting out of belief in God, as Hitler did. In the past year alone there have been ten cases of murder within a family because kids admitted to their parents that they were homosexuals. There have been over 8 murders of people of different skin colors in the southern states because of religious intentions and there have been over 10 murders primary to Muslims with christian motives. I could pull these case by case but it would take an hour, and i am sure we can agree that is is a viable source just by news articles alone. Again my opposition may argue that these are individual acts, but we have to acknowledge when they happen in mass and noticeable numbers we cannot ignore the replications of them. The next thing I will state is that Christianity is destroying our education system, in specific inference to science related fields. In multiples schools some parents were so outraged by the teaching of evolution that they protests, and the school went as far as to add creationism as a topic to be discussed in science class. Science is merely about facts, by implementing this into our education system, we are teaching our children false facts. Even the most serious and noticeable Christians now acknowledge evolution is a fact, they just believed God guided it, which is known as theistic evolution. I will assume you are catholic with the requests you made, and even note that the Arch Bishop of Canterbury believes this along with many other high ups in the Catholic church. Catholics have come to accept this more than modern protestants. There are multiple graphs and studies that show that people who are raises with faith based beliefs tend to be less educated than people who believe in science and facts . http://www.patheos.com... . http://www.christplagiarized.com... I could cite over 20 different sources with this easily but i will leave it with the first two that I found. In closing I have pointed out how religion has negatively impacted society. While I will admit that there are good teachings within the bible and the church, once you admit you are a christian you are just not accepting the good parts, you are also accepting the bad. I believe and have shown that Christianity has caused far more harm than good. now back to my opponent.