Christianity produces a net benefit to society

This debate has nothing to do with the scripture itself. It is intended to be about how Christians actually interact in the world. People can say what every they think about what they believe but what matters to me is how they actually behave. To me that is more telling of belief than anything else. People in U.S. that are christians do not believe in salvery because they don't practice it and very much against the culture of the rest of the world they abolished it. So thank you for making that point clear. Life is filled with pain, suffering, misery, pure evil and pure good, joy, happiness, love, and values, I noticed how you left half of that list off and the bible reflects life. It would not be very good if it only had the happy things in life it would make all christains very niavete if that were the case but it is not the case. Hence why Christains try to do good in society. You say that like much of the inca's, mayan's and other native americans were not already at war. They were not peace loving culture very few of them were. I can only think of 1 peaceful tribe of Indians. But nations like the Soux were warrior tribes and they put up one heck of a fight against the Americans. The mayans and I believe incans also committed ritual sacrifice of virgins and played soccer with the heads of their eneymies. Most of them got wiped out because they had not built up any immunity to deasies that the settlers lived with. Do you really want to credit Christians with being that intelligent that they knew they would die but giving them blankets? With that point, shouldn't you just absolutely love that since it is darwen's principle at work? the stronger more adaptable countries infected the weaker nations and almost killed them off? What does a hurrican have to do with how christians as a whole people group behave? or Famines in Africa? nothing. Christians are among the groups of people that collect canned goods at thanksgiving and christmas and ship rice and other foods over seas trying to be good although someimes it is overdone like in hati where they need to stop sending rice. It is now hurting the agriculture. We would be smarter to send seeds and help revitilize their agriculture as opposed to sending the end product only. You cant say you haven't argued that Me a non-pyschology disciplined individual is not good at pyschology now. You have done it twice in this debate. Again I literrally took 1 psychology class freshman year. I do not claim to be profiecient at psychology. Do you mean anthropology becasue that is the study of societies and that is the central theme of this topic? and No I didn't even take 1 anthropology class. How can you know what my subconscious is doing? it is sub-conscious meaning I don't even know what it is doing becasue it is not conscious? are you claiming to have magical powers? You do not care about children, women, rape, or the rest. You say you care but the reality is your belief does not match your actions. Most christains will back up there actions becasue it is one of their jobs to help care for women, children, and victums of all sorts and they do that. you can't have good without evil. you cant' even define suffering is there is not something nuetral or positive to compare it to so the fact that you point to one and ignore the other just shows you have a terribly narrow viewpoint and you must broaden your scope to have a more well rounded approach. Force is used to refrence pyshical action or movement, and coercion how is a being saying you are free to chose amoung a varity of options coercion? or pyshical action? if anything it shows that the lack of free will would have to be forced because you do not have choice you simply have the chemical and physical reaction to stimuli in the environment.