Religion is based on fear

You have said that I have just "presented your thoughts that can collide with logic" I am using the logic as my evidence. If my thoughts collide with logic then unless you have a way of disproving logic then I don't see how this isn't considered as evidence. It is true that I used that from my source however I used this to support my contradiction - this was also not my main argument aimed at your previous answer. The reason I mentioned no sources for the second contradiction was because the only source I could have said for that is my own brain. It was very short and I thought that I could come up with a response to that without the aid of sources. I understand that you are saying we need fear in order to survive but I am not saying that without religion there wont be any fear. I am saying that the reason that religion exists hear today is because people are afraid to accept the truth about both life and death. If you read both of these carefully you will soon realize that I have not contradicted myself. The first thing I said was that we have lived in fear because there is no other way of living. I never said that we were aware of this fear in my first statement which leads onto my second where I said: "... if we are used to living this way so we wouldn't actually know what fear is..." If we don't know what fear is we wont know if we are experiencing it. To contradict your penultimate paragraph referring to morality being based on fear I will say that it is true that religion has its advantages (I don't recall saying it didn't have any) but are the advantages of religion really worth it when you look over the disadvantages? "Vilification of homosexuality, resulting in discrimination, parents disowning their children, murder, and suicide." "Women treated like second class citizens, or even slaves, based on religious teachings." "People dying - and letting their children die - because their religion forbids accepting medical help." Ask yourself why people take their religion so seriously. All of this still happens today because of religion. Why do they do it? The answer is simply because they are afraid. They are afraid of what God will do to them. They are afraid of going to hell. They are afraid because of their religion. Before I begin my conclusion I would like to thank my opponent for accepting this debate. CONCLUSION The fear in religion isn't a bad thing. Fear is a part of the human condition. We all have fear, we cannot avoid it. Religion can be appealing to people because of their fears. When people are confused or have questions that cannot be answered they look up to religion as their answer to all their problems. In religion you can pray and as a result of this you are given a clean slate and have no sins. People who have done wrong may be scared of the consequence and look to religion. The of similar examples to this is endless. The conclusion that I have come to is that religion is based on fear and it is very clear to see if you look at the examples I've given. Religion is based on fear but can also rid people of their fears. Religion is good and never stops helping people. But we have to remember that religion is based on fear so we have to be careful. We need to establish the difference between the morals of religion and the parts of religion that cause unnecessary fear because some rules in religion were founded from fear and this fear has been passed down and is now worrying very religious (orthodox) people to take many instructions written in holy books seriously and as a result lives have been taken. There are countless examples of extremism in religion (e.g. The Klu Klux Klan). This fact cannot be denied or contradicted. I am looking forward to reading my opponents conclusion and contradictions (optional). Sources http://ragingrev.com... https://answers.yahoo.com... http://www.quora.com...