A world without religon

[White Noise]

recent posts on this forum has got me thinking about religon in general, in fact about what would the world be like without religon?
it seems most wars/hatered (the i'm right your wrong attitude) is caused by religon. if it didn't exist in any form would the world be a peaceful planet or would we just be a bunch of barbaians as we woud have no values and took what we wanted when we wanted
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WN
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[TL666]

No I think most wars are caused by money. Religion is used as a pretext but there's always somebody in the background pulling the strings, stirring up hatred and making a shitload of money. If it wasn't religion it'd be something else.

[greatmoorred]

good point.
i reckon that we would be ok without religion. We survived for a very long time without it.
but are you talking about a world where we have never even thought of religion or a world where we know about it, but try and ignore it ?

[anders]

Well I wish that was the case, a lot of us are what I call "normal" i.e no religion, or don't give/care.

Those that are fanatics annoy me, if you want to be like that do it in private or in your own land.

This is England FFS!

As I mentioned in another post, I'm not racist but sometimes it seems certains cultures/religions are trying to take over this country, and it seems their doing a good job about it!


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[White Noise]

never had it as a concept.
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[Flip]

Religion gives people hope. False or not that's a good thing probably. The grief it causes isn't.

[greatmoorred]

well then, we would be just fine.
although we might still be living in small family groups, fighting with the family over the hill.And you have to remember that GOD only came about because we couldnt work out what it all meant.

[Itchy]

There was something Ghandi said about this ,

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian


But then again an often used arguement by theists is that atheists have killed more than religions

(Mao 60+ million more than ALL dictators , Stalin 20-50million)

[Robby]

Religion is one of the best things to ever happen to humanity.

Faith. Something so powerful it can control millions of people under a set of basic and outdated laws. Something that people can believe so passionately they will have wars over it. Something that people will cling to and use to keep going when there really is no good reason to go on.

Without religion we'd fight over somethingelse, and if all religion disappeared overnight people would think it up again tomorrow, because its wonderfully comforting to think theres a bigger power behind the scenes, and there are answers to the big questions, we just aren't allowed to know them.

[Teaman]

ahh bolocks,, ,the lot of it,,
no religon,, no faith,,
no laws,
Im sure we would find something to fight about,, thats what we do best.

you have ginger hair ,, you must be inferior,,


Death to all carrot tops,,









I rest my case
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[Kwaks]

Religion was simply invented to control the masses when most were illiterate and uneducated, now its just big business and the scapegoat of warmongers . we'd be better off without all the sectarian crap it brings with it.

If religion wasn't around it doesn't mean to say we would take a step backward in civilisation, as the majority are now litterate and have some education. In fact I would argue the opposite,religion is actually holding us all back. Countries with common faiths very rarely go to war with each other, so no religion as standard would lead to less war.

And it would take away Dubyas easy route to securing Haliburton contracts in the Middle East!

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[m99dws]

Religion is a crutch for the weak, and it kills more people than cancer.

[DrJustice]

Religion is dumb people just use it as an excuse to kill each other always have always will

killing in the name of God ,what a joke ,I expect His up their looking down and shaking His head and the Devil is pissing him self laughing !

Religion would soon die out in this country if it was not for all the immigrants taking over !
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[colin1]

I think religion has now served its purpsoe and isnt that useful, but the basis of civilised society and obeying laws comes from religion.

Without religion we would still all be either hunting and gathering food and starving when there isnt much, or farming just enough to survive and starving when food reserves run out.

I think you could argue that the way communism was implmemented in Russia and China was like a religion (burn all heretics etc), so its an honorary religion.
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[Fortuna]

Apparently Jedi is a religion now too. I want a lightsaber Goddamitt.

[Mrs Kickstart]

Much is carried out in the name of religion with being about religion. It is a way to control a large group.
I do not think much would change. Humans tend to join a group and then pick on another.

I think region is the big one at the moment but for all the sense it makes it might as well be football clubs, colour, nationality, transport choice, eye colour or anything else you could use to identify one set of people from another.

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[Kickstart]

Hi

Religion itself is just a system of beliefs, and as such I can see nothing really intrinsically good or bad about it.

However religion is abused by those who seek power and acts as a crutch for those who are not prepared to show tolerance of those who beliefs are different. On this second point atheism can certainly have some of the down sides of religion.

All the best

Keith
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[Dragonfly]

religion is man made and full of crap if you ask me. i think the world would be more peaceful without religion but then agai nit would just be something else after that to have a war about.
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[Irezumi aka Reuben]

Religion is not necessarily the problem. It's ambiguity in places may be, but I dont think so.

What is the problem? People. Religion is a 'valid' excuse used by people who appear to have been brainwashed. Without religion people would still do the same, just with a different excuse, 'valid' or not.
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