Religion and faith is not beneficial to the well being of society and humanity.

Let us review my acceptance statement."It is that major forms of religion (such as , Judaism, Christianity and Islam just to name a few) is mostly detrimental to the advancement of society,science ,education and humanity "Con has disregarded my acceptance statements completely .I said Mostly and overall .The Merriam Webster definition of mostly is as follows.": for the greatest part : mainly"In my opening statement I stated the above more than once such as this."my opponent is to show that major forms of religion are beneficial to the overall well being of society"Let us look at the definition of overall again From the Merriam Webster dictionary.": with everyone or everything included: as a whole : in general"^ Very clear. Let's take a look at some of Cons arguments."Religious inspired violence."this is and always has been the case. That religion can act as a catalyst for hate and war.""Almost any major conflict that one can name, has mostly been a fight over land and territory. While religion has been a catalyst in some of these situations, "Con has agreed with some of my contentions.Furthermore let's take at look at his arguments and contentions."Remember we are not weighing whether or not religion has caused more harm than good"However this is exactly what we are doing as I've mentioned several times in my acceptance statements."While religion has been a catalyst in some of these situations, even without the influence of religion there is a high probability that it would have still occurred."So according to him even without the influence of religion there would be a high probability that these wars listed below would of happened? Again just a very small part of the acts of violence & wars that religion is responsible for.Surely not the case.http://en.wikipedia.org...Oppression -same sex is just 1 of the examples I could give.For example the rights of women? such as the Muslim Burqa, but also in conservative Christianity which discourages women preachers and in gender-specific commands of orthodox Judaism such as married women wearing a ‘Tichel’ and covering their hair. even in 2010, as reported in Christianity Today magazine, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that Christians in some countries in Africa still practiced female genital mutilationEducationMy opponent has ignored my statements about impediments of stem cell research and even so his contentions are severely flawed."That is accepting the fact that God guided evolution."This is not a fact for there is no evidence to support this on the contrary we have observed evolution to be quite random and without the need for god."This is only some less educated and persistent Christians that force this" https://www.au.org... My adversary is wrong on this well.Furthermore"What my adversary is doing, is taking the harm religion has caused and focusing on that. He however has not mentioned some of the good religion has done. "I see that religion has done a very small among of good however that by no means out weighs the bad that religion has done in many societies and humanity.Religious charity.While there are many religious charity's sure however in many such you must be a worshiper of their religion or god ect.Also there are many secular charaitable foundations that are doing alt of charitable works with the absence of religion such as Richard Dawkins Foundation’s effort to raise money for survivors of the Haitian earthquake for one.A list of them are here http://www.freethoughtpedia.com....Hope.It gives people faith and hope to live.While in part I do agree it may give some people a small sense of hope and comfort however this small sense of security and comfort however amounts to little compared with the much atrocities it does as I stated in round 1."We founded America on Christian principles. "This statement simply does not hold to the historical evidence.Indeed, most of our Founding Fathers, although they respected the rights of other religion, held to deism and Freemasonry tenets rather than to Christianity.Further more the United States Constitution serves as the law of the land for America and indicates the intent of our Founding Fathers. The Constitution forms a secular document, and nowhere does it appeal to Christianity.Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion.So that's wrong.The bibleLike I said in my acceptance statement it isn't my intention to pick on any single religion but even so there are a very small amount of morally sound messages in the bible however this bible he speaks about is filled with thousands of contradictions and many statements that are unmoral and unrational such as “Men are superior to women, Jesus is superior to men and God is above all. Women should worship all of them”. Agian we see how Religon is not benefical with everyone or everything included.