Religion needs to go away, it is outdated.

Con here is the dictionary definition for religion. Religion [ri-lij-uh n] A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that aim to explain the meaning of life, the origin of life, or the Universe. It appears Con is proven wrong on her statement "The primary purpose of religion was [and is] in fact to give provide people with moral teaching and an understanding of God". Here is a reference too studies shown that non religious people have not only the same morals as religious people but actually have stronger emotional bonds. http://goo.gl.... http://goo.gl..., And "understanding of God", well which God? Thor, Zeus, Odin, Allah, Jesus, the list goes on and on. Over time there has been 1000's of religions. Christianity has 38,000 branches all with different beliefs, as you will find in my reference. Also there has been at least 1000 God's. And quoting Lawrence Krause "if you believe god your atheist 999 times". Just because something has charity does not make it needed. Al Capon had charities during great depression which fed hundreds. Kim jung un of north korea has types of charities. But most the world doesn't want him around. That argument for charity does not mean people are incapable of helping others without religion. Actually that same money that's freely given up to religion is a much larger percent then donated to charity. In 2012, Ryan Cragun, associate professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, made a research paper and points out that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which Cragun is formerly a member, only gave .7 percent of its annual income to charity between 1985 and 2008. Wal-Mart, on the other hand, "gives about $1.75 billion in food aid to charities each year...almost double what the LDS church has given in the last 25 years," according to Cragun's research. That does not seem to support the Con at all. I advise Con to do their homework. Yes it is nice when it's written out for us to just believe (like religion tries to do) but if you don't search yourself that's plain gullible. So feel free to check on my research i would like people to find the answers for themselves. Con seems stuck on her opinion of religion shaped laws. No examples? And like I argued in round 2 The only ones that are punishable laws are Don't kill and Don't Steel. Anyone person can understand these immoralities, without being told that these are wrong behaviors. There is no evidence for religion shaping these laws. Actually religion does not exactly practice Don't kill. Where does religion get mentioned in our laws today? It doesn't. How is it relevant? That's an attempt by con to avoid the fact that religion has left out major laws that we hold true now. It is a big deal to be for enslavement of people, beating/killing a spouse, raping a young women to declare marriage, Child molestation, etc. So since Con has completely ignored these horrible behaviors, they must not matter in there eyes. Reference: the old testament. Here are the sources for my "Accusations". They are very interesting to look at. Atheists in prison: http://goo.gl..., most stolen/read book in the world: http://goo.gl... Con says i have not included sources. I have now. Religion is very deceptive. They set it up for scaring people into not not questioning there teachings by threatening damnation. People we are better than this. We have build vehicle that travel underwater, fly in the atmosphere, and take us to space. God/religion was not responsible , humanity was.