THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT CULTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN RELIGION

FYI Ma'am I have done Parliamentary Debate before, and I know the possible and proper usages for "This House Would/Should/Believes". This debate simply does not have a usage for that term. "However, it is indisputable that both religion and culture affect each other with different degrees of influence. How much religion affects culture, or vice versa, is actually down to the person concerned. It is subjective. " Everything is subjective. Most people think that 2+2=4, but I think 2+2=1. You don't get four water droplets when you put two and two together. You get one. Of course, this can also be interpreted to be four, since the amount of volume is "4", but like I said before, it's just another point of view. That argument she presents there is non-unique. The only reasons why we claim our beliefs are the truth are because 1) we want people to believe us and 2) we want to believe ourselves. Her case is subjective, my case is subjective. Now that we've gotten that out of the way… "Therefore, religion is not something that we can adapt to the way we progress. " Last I checked, Catholicism no longer stones people to death on for working on the Sabbath and no longer prevents women from speaking in Church. Those traditions were present when Catholicism were first made. They are not present now. All of her arguments that say "religion cannot conform" are therefore irrelevant. "If we could change those, then we would essentially be creating new religions. " And what's wrong with new religions? They're still within the realm of the debate. Oh wait, she wouldn't know, since pretty much all of her response in R2 is copied directly from another website. (refer to bottom of her R2 or near bottom of my R2) "I believe that religion is actually derived from the cultures that existed in those early days, and it came about so as to put strict rules & regulations in order to create a system for people to live ‘by'. " First of all, it isn't my opponent that believes that, its somebody that wrote something on another website. Thanks for providing us that link at the bottom of your R2. Second, if she had actually read through my case instead of prepping out a blog for me, then she would have noticed that I had already talked about that point and it therefore works for me. In my first contention last round, I explained how religion basically starts off as a culture. Since they are pretty much the same thing (and since my opponent failed to point out any differences otherwise), any benefits that culture gets out of being important therefore also applies to religion, making culture AS important than religion. And with her newfound blog post here, her evidence only strengthens my second point: If deities are a necessary part of religion, and culture is something that becomes religion, and deities supposedly enforce laws while culture has looser laws, then that means religion is MORE important than culture – We follow enforced laws (no shooting) before less enforced laws (speeding by 5 MPH). "Anyway, religion affects the conscience of the one who believes in it. Culture is enough for someone to assess what is good or bad, but culture is very diverse and it is adaptable with other aspects of life (technology, science, lifestyle etc. .). " 1) Culture also affects the conscience…… oh wait you already said that for me. Just… in different words for defining religion and culture. 2) Religion is as diverse as culture. She –no my bad, THE ARTICLE says that culture is diverse and is adaptable, but I think that this is exactly the same with religion. Culture is diverse only because there are many cultures. The reason why religion seems like it's not diverse is because when it's talked about in this article, it's one religion compared to all cultures, instead of all religions to all cultures. Religion is quite adaptable. You just switch religions. Same with culture. You just switch cultures. "source: . http://thisismauritius.com...; Everyone please go look. You'll find that after her first three lines, her entire R2 is C/Ped from there. Extend everything from my R1. She has not made any responses to it. The link may have responded to it, but since my opponent has not shown any links or impacts, none of those responses that might have been made can be counted in this debate. Culture is either LESS or AS important as religion. 1) AS: Religion is the same thing as culture. 2) LESS: Religion defines culture, as proved by her examples.