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

My adversary might be slightly confused and may be trying to piece together what is left of his arguments. Con yet to reply to my first initial 4 contentions of how religion is overall not beneficial to the well being of society and humanity. I’ve taken his 4 points apart and backed each of mine with sources,statistics and research his point’s actually further proved the motion that religion is not overall beneficial. Contentions that Con dropped and never mentioned. 1. Religiously restricted Equal rights. 3. religion undercuts our science and education 4. Religiously motivated Oppression. I’ve shown thoroughly , and extensively how religion has caused,inspired and supported such things and thus Nearly all of Cons arguments are in my favor. "The Mind's War" and “Genetic Codes” Con’s point again goes in my favor I’ve easily shown how religion increases stress in so many ways again a point in my favor. I already addressed in the round above. Studies show that they also have a higher quality of life compared to religious ones this negates Con’s second point as well as his first. They also have much lower crime therefore even lower stress. Religiously inspired and motivated violence. Cons only rebuttal to this was that we can’t quantify the wars that religion prevented I have addressed this issue and have stated that we can. Cons entire argument is without evidence’ve stated that religion has caused many wars and he states the Halocaust and Hitler as a secular movement I’ve provided evidence against this false premise again a point in my favor clearly showing how religion not only did not prevent this war but on the contrary fueled it and inspired it. Con suggests that religious conflict is useful to society and humanity an absurd point which actually further goes in my favor as I have demonstrated. I sufficiently demonstrated that this is a point in my favor even con says. “. .. he wins society. At best my opponent wins . .. " A Study Suggests that Religion helps criminals justify their crimes. [2] Thus I have backed that religion is the motive for a lot of aggression and violence and therefore is not overall beneficial to humanity and society. Therefore without religion we would have less societies that are predisposed to violence and aggression. I will reiterate that it is because of religion that we have a greater amount of societies that are predisposed to aggression and violence. “The World. .. Sans Religion:” Surely voters will notice that this point has more than been addressed again is my favor, as I have sourced and shown that we can observe the impact on society without religion. “Wars, wars, wars. .. ” Con again resorts to vauge empty statements backed by nothing. “unquantifiable of wars that have been avoided” Clearly I’ve shown that if anything at all religion created many wars thought history and the Haolocuast a point brought up my Con just furthermore proves mine. . Mine are backed up with evidence Cons evidence is no evidence a tall. Con resorts to taking quotes of mine out of context. “Logically if we want to quantify the non-effects of something we would look where it is overall the least such as less religious communities and nations. The crime rate of secular communities is far lower VS mostly religious ones. [2] In the us 0.209% of the prison population are atheists. ” And one more. secular nations such as those in Scandinavia donate the most money and supportive aid, per capita, to poorer nations. Zuckerman also reports studies show that, during the Holocaust, the more secular people were, the more likely they were to rescue and help persecuted Jews. Numerous studies, show that atheists, when compared to religious people, are actually less likely to be nationalistic, racist, anti-Semitic, dogmatic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian. “Cause and Effect:” Con again in blatant denial of logic. I’ve backed up each of my statements with statistics and evidence Numerous of my sources indicate that religion is the cause for,motivation for and inspiration for countless atrocities , crime and war. For example.1. The church assured listeners that God wanted them to exterminate Moslems that Christ commanded it and assured that God wanted them to participate in Holy War, masses pressed forward to take the crusaders' oath. They were guaranteed place in Heaven for themselves. Con claims that this was not a cause? clearly we see his disregard for logic.2. Was it not the sole intention of the terrorists on 911 to get in a spot in heaven by honoring their "god"Of course it was and countless more atrocities are caused by religion. Simple brief examples show that Con's assertions are empty and unfounded. Conclusion. I have thoroughly shown how “Religion is overall not beneficial to the well being of society and humanity. ” I’ve taken apart Cons contentions mine still stand we see that Religion is overall not beneficial to the well being of society and humanity.