Christianity has been used more for evil than good

Apparently since Christianity can be used as evil everything must be evil. I'm not going to waste time attempting to respond to this. Also, My oppenent has failed to show how Christianity has helped mankind in any way, shape or form. Bottom line is that when a fictional book says something is bad Christians often think it justifies their beliefs that people who do bad things need to die. Christian Eric Rudolph bombs abortion clinics, etc. [1] Christians in Northern Ireland and Ireland can't even find peace when they believe in the same God and Savior, but different ways to pray to their imaginary friends. [2] I could probably go on for awhile, but Christians killing themselves over who's way to praise God is better is sort of hard to beat. Bottom line is this: Science has brought us a lot of great things. Everything from anti biotics to landing on the moon we owe to science, but it wasn't always ok to study science. I find it no coincidence that when the Christian churches had their largest stranglehold on Europe scientific discovery came to a screeching hault. We of course refer to this as the "dark ages. " The time when one could be killed for believing that the Earth revolved around the sun. Furthermore, I think it is extremely sad that the Church and creationists all over still, to this day think it is ok to teach our children things they know are wrong. When I was in Sunday school I was given a pamphlet that I still remember. I commited what it said to memory. It read "About 6,000 years ago Dinosaurs ate all the food on Earth so they dug deep under ground to find more food, but they became trapped in the holes and starved. " Yes, the Catholic Church I attended thought it was ok to teach 7 year olds that. That's not even the worst. There is a picture I saw that shows and Exhibit at the Kentucky Creationist Museum. A plaque says that because alligators and crocodiles were around when dinosaurs were here and they are still alive with humans today it is not hard to believe that humans once lived along side dinosaurs. I've provided a link to their website so you can see the garbage they feed children. [3] It might not kill anyone to teach them stuff we know never happened, but it slows the world from moving forward. Had it not been for the Christian oppression of science in the middle ages, some scientists believe we might be 1,000 years more advanced. Even if that is a biased or overly generous opinion, slowing humanity by even a decade, in my mind, is immoral. To stop people from learning so that you can have more power is wrong and it has been at the top of the Christian Churches agenda since it was invented. Furthermore, the Alexandria Library was burned by Christian extremism. [4] The greatest collection of ancient archives, which included plans for a LIGHT BULB (yea, they had the knowledge, but not the tools to actually invent it) as well as gliders, was lost. The Christianities stranglehold on humanity and the progression of the human race is the longest and bloodiest history in the world and the only legacy that can come close is the similarily bloody Islamic history. Science has taken us to the moon and Mars. It has sent probes out to Pluto and allowed us too peer close enough to an object to see its DNA. Christianity has done nothing but slow it down and, in our darkest age, kill anyone who attempted to do these miraculous things. All this and the greatest thing the Church gives us is prayer. Personally, I find nothing so narcissistic as thinking that the sun and the earth and all the animals and fish and plants were all put here for humans. Furthermore, that God would love me specifically and answer my prayers to find my car keys when I'm going to be late for class, but some starving kid in Ethiopia is just forgotten. There is nothing more selfish than a person who believes that the entire universe is here for them and God wants to have a personal relationship with them while forgetting the suffering of others. The fact that people are willing to forget the sufferings of another human because that person will have a better deal in the next life is a selfish and horrible thing, but Christianity, among other religions, allows us to be feel justified in doing nothing to help people who need it. That, in itself is an evil thing in my mind. In summation, whether it's stopping scientific and human progress, confusing children, killing or torturing people or just allowing people to feel justified in letting others suffer, Christianity has done far too much evil to be considered a "good" institution or religion. It's only saving grace is that there are many good people who happen to be christian, but that does not mean they would be bad people without it. 1. . http://topics.nytimes.com... 2. . http://www.time.com... 3. . http://creationmuseum.org... 4. . http://ehistory.osu.edu...