How do you see the world heading if all religion was eliminated?

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Many, like Dawkins, think that religion is the root of all evil. Hypothetically, if all religion was eliminated and all people stopped believing how would you see the world in a few years? With atheism on the rise do you think that society will improve or deteriorate?

bluebell

I think they'd just find something else to kill each other over. But imagine if all the money that goes into religion went to the poor and hungry and diseased, unfortunately human nature isn't like that (with or without religion)?

RichieRich

Without organized religion rearing its ugly head, we could prob make communism work. Hell, we could make anarchism work.

Wars would gradually cease, as people don't want to die and not be rewarded, and crime might surge for a while, but it would come right back down because no one would mind sentencing the death penalty.

And I could hug my mom again.

WTWizard

It would be nice without this barrier to science. Religion has always been a barrier to progress. Religion started the first Dark Ages (and a whole lot of wars). Religion is threatening to start another Dark Ages: if the Jihadists or the Jehovah's Witlesses have their way, we will be in another Dark Ages.

Without religion holding us back, now all we need is to get those government regulators off our backs, and the free enterprise system will be able to solve our problems without the hinderances. The bad companies that initiate fraud will go bust as their reputations will be exposed like the Watchtower Society is today, and they will have as hard a time getting back their footing. Good companies will rise and produce ever better product. And that's as good as any regulator can hope for.

LtCmd.Lore

I think it all depends on the methods used to get it that way.

If all of us atheists banded together to wipe out religious people, that would not be a good thing. And then we'd have to execute/imprison all the 'offenders'. Basically that would be a huge violation of personal rights, and when one basic right can be destroyed so can all your other rights... not a pretty picture, it would probably be almost as bad as if everyone was required to be Christian or Muslim.

BUT on the other hand, if all religion was eliminated due to personal choice, like if scientists learn much more about the natural universe to the point where only retards would even consider god. Then that would be a good thing, because everyone is ALLOWED to be religious, they just don't want to be.

Then I think the world would be a wonderfull place and you end up with an advanced society ruled by humanism... (There would still be crimes commited by evil people.)

But the same applies Christianity, if everyone WANTED to be christian, then you would have a worldwide brotherhood of extremely peacefull happy people... (There would still be crimes commited by evil people.)

Unity is a good thing, no matter who is united. Uninformity is a bad thing, no matter who is assimilated.

Lore

serotonin_wraith

We can already see the benefits when countries move away from religion. Sam Harris wrote:

'Countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on Earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005) they are also the healthiest, as indicated by measures of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality. Conversely, the 50 nations now ranked lowest in terms of human development are unwaveringly religious. Other analyses paint the same picture: The United States is unique among wealthy democracies in its level of religious literalism and opposition to evolutionary theory; it is also uniquely beleaguered by high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality. The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious superstition and hostility to evolutionary theory, are especially plagued by the above indicators of societal dysfunction, while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European norms.'

ajwnm

Don't forget those great atheist bastions of freedom and socialist workers paradises- USSR, China, Cambodia. Together their wonderful examples of freedom from religion brought about @100 million deaths in the 20th century. Maybe we'll be even luckier in this century and kill half a billion when we finally manage to wipe out every trace of a belief system. Can just imagine all those greenies salivating at the thought of all those dead people. Fertilizer for the trees and plants and room for all the animals.

theinfamousone

oh god, a world without religion? would definitely eliminate alot of the problems.. and the first step, all the religious giving all their money to the church, could donate it to fix thiungs in africa... yeah world would be a better place!

the infamous one

NYCkid

First their would be chaos as people wouldn't know what to do without their Jehovah, Allah, Jesus, Yahwah, Buddha, father, son or holy ghost.

But slowly, people would realize that logic and human decency provides the guidance they need.

Then, all would be right in the world again.

Ahhh, perchance to dream .....you're such a tease.

serotonin_wraith

-ajwnm, I don't recall them dying due to atheism.

Richard Dawkins: "I cannot think of any war that has been fought in the name of atheism. Why should it? A war might be motivated by economic greed, by political ambition, by ethnic or racial prejudice, by deep grievance or revenge, or by patriotic belief in the destiny of a nation. Even more plausible as a motive for war is an unshakeable faith that one's own religion is the only true one."

How do you see the world heading if all religion was eliminated?

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