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Quote by: Fonceai 
If you're going to say religion is to blame for negative behavior, would you also say that religion is the inspiration for positive behavior?
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Religion is something that is necessary to society whether you believe its true or not.
Sure bad things happen because of religion, but good things happen too.
Its not bad when a ministry goes to disaster site and helps rebuild, its not bad a church does canned food drive, and some churches also have community outreach centers. When I was in catholic school, that church was operating a homeless shelter. These are positive things
Also most religions set some sort of moral code for their followers, thats surely a decent thing in most cases.
And on the other hand, negative things defiantly come out of religion. I've seen several sermons where the focus was denouncing gays, pagans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold, and the whole constant everyone else is going to hell game, which makes some of their followers weary at the least around these people.
Wars have been carried out for religion, we have suicide bombers because of religion.
Its not perfect but its there, and I think it helps some people get through life thinking there is some sort god out there or whatever.