Religion is a force for Good!

Thank you for all of your historical examples. As it appears from con, he wants me to apologize for the cruel, unnecessary and absurd historical events that took place and still may be taking place today. I'm not going to apologize for people being fakers/phonies of their beliefs. A REAL regenerated (born again) Christian wouldn't kill millions of Jews for foolish reasons, hold people as slaves or hostages Because they think they're better than the other, cause war with whomever because of differences or whatever the reasons were. These things are not signs of a true Christian. These are signs of people claiming to be Christian ONLY by name and not by life. So what I'm sorry for, is that people from past events have caused great confusion to what true Christianity truly is.. This along with other things such as con mentioned about priests give true Christians a bad name and this is why people view us wrongly all because of those who've shown wrongly. If a person says they're Christian and does exactly what the world does then that should tell anybody they're not really Christian at all but fakes. So I'm sorry for that con. I'm sorry that history and today's events cause you and many others to drift away from God because of fakers. Con mentioned that Adam and Eve were ignorant in the beginning, but if that is true then why did they decide to eat the fruit then? It says, the fruit was pleasant to the eyes and it looked good to eat (paraphrased).. So if the fruit looked good to the eyes and good enough to eat, but God warned them not to eat it then why did they decide to eat it then?.. It wasn't because they were ignorant, no they knew what they were doing.. It was because they chose to disobey on their own FREE WILL .. This had nothing to do with God.. Yes, He knew that they were going to do that, but if He's so cruel, then why didn't He just kill them on the spot for disobeying Him and decided to not allow the world to populate?? He showed them Grace.. Grace enough to live, work, be strengthened, have children, and provided for them.. How's that cruel?? They became sinful but because of themselves.. And were sinful because of us.. Con mentions about people believing in God outta fear of hell.. I reassure you, that I do not fear hell because I know it's what I deserve.. It had nothing to do with hell of why I believe in Him.. There's a preacher that once said, "if you haven't had a relationship with sin then you haven't had a relationship with God." ~Paul Washer And what that basically means is, is if a person truly understands there sin and know where they stand under Gods eyes and know just what they deserve (hell=Gods full wrath) then they'll be able to have a true relationship with God.. Con, fear to you is being afraid and scared but fear to me is a reverential honoring fear.. It's knowing understanding who I am and what I deserve.. But because I understand and know this that is why I do not fear "be afraid or scared" of hell because I understand that if God sees me as hell bound then I know it's what I deserve.. If Believing in God is based off of fear why believe in God then because that's just a waste of time.. What is there to fear if there's Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness and Love given freely to those who are TRULY His?? And for those hell-preachers who forget to mention the Cross of Christ are going to have to answer to God for their harshness to the world. I do hope this answers your concerns and questions. Best wishes on my opponents response. :) God bless.