Religion Outline

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1.Thesis statement: Religion has been constantly posing negative effect on large scales like societal aspects as well as small scales such as individuals.
A.Supporting idea#1: Religious conflicts causes social unrest.
B.Supporting idea#2: Oppression against individuals due to Religious reasons.
C.Supporting idea#3: Religions destruction of other cultures.
D.Conclusion/transitional thesis statement: On both aspect individuals and the society, Religions often have adverse effect on the overall development of human beings.

2.Topic sentence for supporting idea#1:Through out the human history, many major social unrest and large scale conflict broke out due to religions.
A. Crusade is the invasion to the Middle East Muslims under the direct consent of Catholic
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A.Buddhas of Bamiyan, along with dozens of important historical Buddhism temples and sites were destroyed by ISIS. (ISIS cannot represent Muslim, but they did do those destruction due to religious conflict)
B. During the times of Middle Age, the Catholic church burned books that they believed blasphemy.
C.Many Science study about Astronomy were considered against the church and faced many difficulties.(e.g. The Evolution Theory)
D.Conclusion/transition: Most of the worlds religions are exclusive and does not bare others’ ideas.

5.Conclusion/restatement of thesis: Through out the human history, Religions have many negative effects on human on both larger scales and smaller scales.
A.Many of the major social problems and social conflicts are caused by Religions.
B.Individuals are easily oppressed by Religions if their ideas are not “religiously correct”
C.Religions are generally exclusive towards others and thus might cause damage to other cultures and ideas.
D.Powerful concluding sentence: Due to the numbers of points mentioned above, most of the religions are the obstacles of human

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