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Brianna Albaugh
Courtney Nelson
Mr. Jay B. Gross
English 12 B (3)
14 May 2015
Religion: A Downfall or Benefit to Society?
Religion is a simple word that defines many different practices and beliefs. However, also
accentuates the walls dividing the human race. A word that, not only categorizes who is good or
evil based on a set of morals that are hypocritical and impossible to live up to, but one that goes
against all basic human instinct. With religion playing such a major factor in humanity and its
history, the subject needs to be addressed and demolished. Intolerance, wars, and societal
dysfunction are all major problems associated by religious affiliation. Groups that embrace
religion see it as the glue holding together societies morals, however it is untrue. Because of the
issues associated with it, religion must be banned around the world.
Religion is a primary factor for intolerance among individuals within society and why it
must be banned. Religion intolerance targets individuals, such as Muslims, and others who
believe in different religious values than another. In Hebrew and Christian literature this is the
most prevalent. In Exodus 22:20 the Old Testament states, "He that sacrificeth unto any god,
save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. or in Deuteronomy 7:1-2, NIV, "When
the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you
may nations the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites,Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites,
seven nations larger and stronger than you 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them
over to you and you have defeated them,then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with