An open discussion about religion in general

I am an anti-theist and I do believe religion is a detriment to the human species. I will try and touch on religion in general, but do to time and character limitations I will focus on Christianity. I will lay out the reasons why I feel religion does more harm than good. 1) I believe teaching children that they are going to Hell if they do not follow the word of a bigoted, genocidal, jealous, unjust, homophobic, racist, and malevolent God is borderline child abuse. 2) The Bible is just a book of myths. It is also a terrible book to live life by. 3) Believing in such nonsense makes people feel like they have answers, which you pointed out in your opening argument. If you believe a lie, it is still a lie. This belief will prevent you from seeking the truth. 4) I cannot omit the violence that religion has caused throughout history and right up to the present. I will now be more thorough in my arguments against religion, and specifically Christianity. I will follow the numerical order laid out in the first paragraph. 1)Children are told that they will go to Hell and suffer for eternity if they do not believe the teachings of the Bible. How are kids supposed to grow up and think for themselves while being taught these evil things during critical phases of brain development? Christians regularly claim that their religion is one of peace and love, but how can that be justified when you could be punished eternally for a "thought crime"? God supposedly gave man free will but you better not choose any doctrine other than Christianity or you will be sentenced to an eternity of torture. This is brainwashing at its finest. A common argument against this stance is that the Bible teaches us morals. This is another fallacy of the so called "Holy Book". Yahweh, the god of the Old Testament, condones slavery, rape, genocide, and war. Is this the god that you feel comfortable teaching your children to worship? Fortunately, these evil, baseless claims are unreasonable and unsupported by evidence. 2)The Bible is said to be the word of God. If this were true there wouldn't be any contradictions, let alone as many as there are. Plus, many parts of the Bible have already been proved wrong by science. We now know that a bat isn't a bird as stated in the Book of Leviticus 11:13-19. The Bible also says the moon gives off light, which we know to be false (Isaiah 13:10, among others). The Bible also expects us to believe that an omnipotent God chose not to use his power to forgive man for original sin (which he created), but instead impregnates a teenage girl (taking away her freewill) with himself in the body of his son so she could give birth to himself/son and ultimately have himself/son slaughtered (because human sacrifice is moral) to save humans from going to the Hell that he created. Instead of providing proof for these claims, he decided to communicate through profits. Not only did these profits have conflicting accounts, but the first word from the Bible ever written was at least 40 years after Jesus" death. This is the equivalent of us currently not having any media and being a very illiterate culture, yet writing about Richard Nixon"s presidency. How accurate would that be? 3)Believing in a religion makes people that don"t have the answers feel like they do. This is a dangerous concept because if we think we have the answers, and it"s as simple as God, then we will not advance intellectually at the rate we could. Many people don"t believe in evolution because the Bible states that God created all. Evolution would alone disprove the Book of Genesis, and that would be a huge hit on the Bible"s reputation. Some Christians will not even give evolution a thought due to their staunch belief system. The problem here is that religion can impede or even restrict people from learning about the world around them. These conclusions are passed down from parents to offspring. This ignorance is being taught as truth and it is completely acceptable in many if not most societies. The issue for Christianity is that it does not have the evidence to back its claims like science does. 4)I have already stated that the God of the Bible was an evil, maniacal tyrant. But unfortunately it"s not just this character that has acted this way, but also his followers. Christianity doesn't exactly have the cleanest history. I"m sure everyone reading this has heard of the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the French Wars of Religion. This violence was all in the name of religion. It wouldn't be fair to just pick on Christianity though, so how about Islam? The Qur"an is a book full of hate just like the Bible, and sadly some Muslims interpret it as literal truth. When you look at 9/11, ISIS and their atrocities, and Hamas, you can"t help but to think that if the Qur"an and its faith didn't exist, neither would these terrible tragedies. There are two major conflicts currently in world news. These are obviously the Palestine/Israel war and the ISIS barbarity. I don"t find it that shocking that both are religious based.