Religion only brings negative things to the world.

1. Religious people does good things, and so do atheists. However, religious people do bad things because of their religion, and atheists don't. Therefor, the only thing we actually gain from religion, the only thing it actually brings to the world that weren't here already, is the negative. Since the good things cancel each other out. Now, I am not saying atheists don't do bad stuff, I am saying they don't do it because of their atheism but because they are bad people, and both sides have bad people as well as good people. However, religion gives us a reason to do bad things, a justification and a passion to do it, which is bad. When I say they only bring negative things to this world, I mean that the positive things don't need religion to happen, but some of the negative things do like e.g. killing the people the bible tells you to kill, rape or hold slaves etc. Imagine a party where everyone brought a good mood, but you also brought a cake - being the only one who could actually bake. You could ague that the only thing anyone actually brought was that cake since the good mood was just normal, it was the default. But the cake stands out. The cake is there because you know how to bake. Being a good person is how we're supposed to be, it's the default, it's how we are mostly brought up to be. But religion kinda messes that up because it gives us reason and justification to do bad things. 2. Again, you shouldn't take the resolution out of context. Just like many religious don't like people taking quotes from their books out of context. I can see how one would think that I said religion never brings any good just by looking at the title, but you have to look at my explanation to see that the good is being canceled out as explained above. You can keep going on this little detail, but there is really no point in having a debate if you don't look at what I'm actually saying. I'm saying that religion only brings bad because there is no need for religion in the good it gives. It's not a contradiction if you take my initial statement at put it against the explanation of the statement, that makes no sense. You have to take it all as one. 3. How about you look at what you said - "Religion can have a positive influence as it inspires people to higher ideals of morality with mention of important historical figures such as Mother Theresa.". Sure you can look up to Mother Teresa, but I have already stated that you don't need religious inspiration to do good, you just need inspiration. Why pick a religious woman who did some good over the thousands of other people who did good that didn't involve religion? Point is, sure, religion has good people on their side but they didn't need the religion to do those things. They just needed to be good people. 4. It seems like you don't even know how to argue against it, or did you just not get my point? I was proving everything I stated above and disproving your statement that "It is logically impossible to donate to a charitable Christian organization without religion.". 5. No it doesn't. I never stated it does absolutely no good, I did quite the opposite. If you cared to take my initial statement in context you will see that the thing I write just after it is "Religious people does good things, and so do atheists.". It's not a contradiction, it's a conclusion and if you do not understand my explanation then you can't argue against it. You are like a broken record arguing against something you don't seen to get. You only argue against half a sentence. Your links shows that religion is inspirational - but there are a thousand other things that can be inspirational to doing good without all the bad that follows. The act of doing good is simply because you are a good person, because you were inspired by something (anything) good. It's completely separate from religion. It is a fact that religion has been the cause or the motivation for thousands of people being killed etc. and if you actually follow the bible or the Quran then you will do an awful lot of bad things. And people do. But atheists don't have any reason at all to do bad things unless they are bad people. That's the whole point. There is a big difference between "religion can only bring negative things to the world" and "Religion only brings negative things to the world.". You seem to think you're smart so it shouldn't be that hard for you to figure out that difference, and in the meanwhile please stop twisting my words, at least I have the courtesy to quote you directly and not twist the words. There was a reason for my choice of word and again, read the damn explanation cause this is getting ridiculous. If you keep saying that I contradict myself, then try reading what I'm actually writing. You said it was easy to read, yet you don't seem to get my point. The initial statement isn't supposed to be taken out of context, you have to read my explanation for it to make sense, clearly. And if you didn't wanted to go for 5 rounds then you shouldn't have taken up the debate. If you don't read and understand what I'm actually saying then it clearly does need that amount of rounds.