Religion is a force for Good!

Counters:Bad Christians are not "real" Christians - The very spokesperson for the Crusades was the top expert on Christainty (Pope Urban II) who directed the Franks to slaughter thousands of Muslims to try and reclaim Jereuslem. He is as real as it gets and is in fact probably more of an expert on Christianity than my opoonent is. - The slaughter of Anti-semetism is recently stopped. However, it has gone back farther since the time of Martin Luther. In fact Martin Luther himself on The Jews (his own book) he argues that synogogues and Jewish rites should be outlawed. The Russians (Orthodox Christians) also had several Pogroms up until the USSR takes place, and finally even today under Stephen Harpers leadership (Prime Minister of Canada) for funding anti-gay organizations which were openly christian as well operating in Uganda. Clearly Christianity has had a long history of hatred for minorities, and it is the real christians, consider the following biggoted passages in the Bible: John 5:16, 7:1, and 7:13, all of which hate on Jews, and the infamous story of Sodom and Gomorrah which clearly was an attack on homosexuality. -It appears as though those "bad christians" my opponent claims follow the bible more closely than my opponent. -Anti-semitism only stopped in 1964 as an offical doctrine by Christians . . Adam and Eve Were Innocent- My opponent ignores one major factor in her contention that they were responsbile by their actions; the representitive of Satan as a serpant! They were tricked and it seems harsh for someone who should have had the foresight to know and see this, to do nothing and then proceed to punish them seems immoral at the best. Outright evil IMO. And why didn't he kill them? -Some things are worse than death, in fact God clearly wants people to suffer next in his story of Cain and Abel (the first murder) and infact is furthered by this genocidal maniac when the bible claims that when Jesus returns, all of the worshipors are saved, while the rest go to hell. And in fact in Noah's story, God kills off everyone due to them disobeying him. He does several times, kill more men than the devil himself! Sin is Good -Uhh . .. hell is the devils domain. .. NOT Gods . .. . clearly hell is the abandonment of God, and if that is the case, yes if you "sin" you cannot have a relationshop with God. Not the other way around, that's just question begging. And while you yourself may not fear hell, does not mean every single other christian does not! Fear - Well, lets take my opponents arguments and make them logically valid. If God is mercyful and nice, why even have a hell in the first place? Seems unnecessary . .. oh wait . .. because God ISN'T like that! Dropped Arguments:-Opponent never responds to the fact that Heaven cllosely resembles North Korea, a tyrannical, horrific state known for it's human rights violations-Never denies any homophobic tendancies, and the outright contradictions with the sciences, and damages the Chruch continues even today In fact, the chruch is outright hypocritical, even owning a porn production company (source: . http://www.foxnews.com...) Clearly if a God did exist, and religion took over the world, the world would be a much worse place, not a better one! Over to my opponent! :)