Religion only brings negative things to the world.

1. It does comply. In my resolution I say that religion only brings negative things to the world, not negative influence. It's two different things. Negative things are all the bad stuff that happens because of religion - discrimination of people because the bible tells them it's wrong (Homosexuality, "witches", women, abortions etc.). I never said it had absolutely no good influence, cause obviously religion can motivate people to do good things to, but the point is that you don't NEED religion for any of the good things, you just need motivation, inspiration, support, love, feeling of community etc. But, religion have a bad influence too, which I believe to be greater. An example would be comments on social media, where religion makes people write absolutely horrible things. That's what we see most of today, but obviously the worst cases are people who kill and harm other people because of their beliefs, and if you look at history, even recent history, you will find that millions and millions of people have been murdered in the name of "God". Religion might have good things, but we don't need religion for that, and the bad far outweighs the good. 2. "Doesn't mean religion cannot or doesn't do any good." - Never said otherwise. "For example, religion is responsible for wide-spread cooperation across the globe." - Since the majority of the population has been theists so far, they will obviously have been responsible to most wide-spead cooperation across the world, but if you do a little research you will find that a whole lot of atheists based cooperations like charities (cross-nation) are popping up everywhere. So yes, if you have 100 good people, 99 theists and 1 atheists, then obviously it would look like the theist do more good because they are the majority. However that doesn't mean that the atheists are any less good, and you do not need religion to do good things and be a good person. We don't need religion to do good things, we need good people. But religion is often used as an excuse or reason or motivation to do bad things. 3. Again, never said it didn't bring good things. "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." You don't need religion for morals and you don't need religious figures to have a positive influence, inspire people or teach them morals. I look up to historical figures like Einstein, Newton, Churchill, Copernicus, Kant, Nietzsche etc. They are all people who inspire me and make me dream and think and wonder and wanting to know more. But the most influential people are my teachers, my parents and my grandmother who told me stories about the time she fought the nazis as part of a resistance group. Listening to her telling stories about how she helped jews flea the country over the water, smuggling messages in her booths and encountering nazis were the most inspirational moments in my life. Listening to my teachers was inspiring and motivating, and them telling me that I would get far and that I was bright and strong and could do a lot of incredible things if I put some work and effort into it was what motivated me to get an education and do good things and teach others about the wonders of the universe. Helping my parents out on their farm is what made me volunteer at a cat shelter after I moved into the city and my two aunts who were nurses was the people who inspired me to donate blood. 4. Our churches are much different from the ones in the us, but I donate about $150 dollars to the church every year to go to a trip for the children to have an adventure. It has nothing to do with religion, it's about the kids and I know it's for a good cause. So no, being an atheists doesn't mean that I can't team up with the theists in our neighbourhood to do some good, but luckily our churches are not like yours at all. A lot of the people who belong to the church call themselves christian but doesn't believe in god or jesus or anything in the bible as anything literal, they do it for the stories, the tradition and for the community. Unfortunately it's not like that everywhere. And you do realise that there are a whole lot of charitable organisations that are atheists or non-religious, right? If an atheists don't wanna donate to a religious group it's really not that hard to find a non religious organisation, and that goes for pretty much everywhere in the world. You can easily find a list of the biggest atheists charity organisations online. Your links still don't disprove me, I never said there weren't good I only said that there were bad. It might have been necessary to bring people together in the past, but we don't need that anymore. It might have been good to teach people things that could be dangerous, like eating pork could kill you because of bacteria and handy stuff like that, but we know that know and don't need religion to tell us that. Religion was good, now it's outdated and harmful. And since we don't need religion to be good, the good of the theists and the good of the atheists "cancel each other out" and all we are left with are people doing bad things in the name of religion which might be heavily reduced if we got rid of religion and people who are just bad. So, the first link didn't say anything I haven't said myself and the second link is broken. I'm afraid you haven't quite refutted my resolution since you either misunderstood or didn't really think your answers through. You haven't proven me wrong yet. And I would like to add that English is my third language, I apologise for my misspellings but it is only to be expected, no need to point it out. I hope I made myself more clear this time and there won't be too many misunderstandings in your next argument.