How do you see the world heading if all religion was eliminated? (page 2)

ninja

the world would come to a stop imho....everybody would sleep in on sunday

Handsome Dan

Perhaps a more balanced humanistic consciousness and more peace

Without religion, people would have to rely more on themselves for spiritual guidance. And without a higher God, they would have to realize that science has many of the answers that mankind need. For instance, medical science would have to advance to find the root cause of aging and death. That done, we would know why we get old and die, and maybe even be able to reverse it without intervention from any Jehovah.

With religion out of the picture, we then need to eliminate superfluous regulations from the Government. Those agencies (like the FDA) continue to hold back medical and science. Do away with this effect, and science will take off without impediment. And then we will see science provide all the answers and solutions that Jehovah Himself promised. Then it will be:

Jehovah: You're FIRED!

writetoknow

Well we may see it! There is a greater and greater push year to year to do away with religion. If you study the history of the world you will find that nations that become Christain provided more freedom and rights to people then those that are not Christian nations.

Yet, as we know none of them Christain or otherwise have not been oppressive in some ways.

Yes, they will find other reasons to kill each other politics, boaders, race and so on this is the history of man.

I agree religion will be gone wipe off the earh just as the bible states and for a short time people will rejoice in its destruction.

People that kill others find when the thing they hate is gone there is still hate but they have no one to project it on.

And that's the point Christ was not about changing politics, religion, groups, nations, he was about changing the persons. Religion or faith is not about physical it is about spirit and truth that starts with each person.

There was no physical place that God choose on this earth for his spirit to dwell but people. His spirit is love. When groups do not have God's spirit they do not have Gods love so they act like all groups without God's love "beast".

Religions do bad, on the other hand, millions of people that have faith in God and Christ do many good works throughout the world and provide physical and moral help to billions.

When that is wipe off the earth (and it will be) there will be know one to blame, no place to defer hate, no one to point fingers at, One can no longer blame God for all the mess on earth. (It will be mans own hate that wipes it off the earth) No place to get ready of sin anymore no one to look down on.

Each person will have to look to their humanly organization for help and protection their corporation, their government. The practice of faith will not be allowed and will be hated. Choice will gone, freedom of thought will not be allowed. This discussion will not be allowed...

And the better world without religion will exist only man made ideas and groups. Man will then blame the man made governments with the same hate they had for man made faith.

Jehovahs Witnesses were not taught to love their fellowman as themselves. They have been taught to hate false religion. So when they find their org. was false religion as well what to they have but hate for all religion.

The point is 99% of all religion from the start of man are man made ideas mixed with some truth. So the end of all religion is man destroying his own tower that he built and blaming God for building it.

So if man builds another tower without religion will it be better one, kinder, more loving, smarter, fair, more just or will it be the same old same old with a new face and a bad heart?

We have all the answers we taught them God will cut a stone from a mountain not on earth and it will hit all man made mountains(goverments represent mans ideas apart from God - self rule) and grow into a mountain that fills the earth with God's Kingdom

Man ways are corrupt they have always been corrupt he cannot govern himself without hurting others. How can a person take a little leaven and put into a new lump and not have the same mess?

It is strange blind hate towards religion is exactly what God said would happen 2000 years ago. And isn't it amazing that it was told man would make himself a god in the last times and every thing that he had built would become exposes as a fraud and people would lose faith in everything and distrust would be the order of the day.

We should take the knowledge we have of God and not assume God was wrong but men that built this false religion that we were associated with were. And actually find out the truth of God. Isn't strange the very judgments we hoped for all false religion has come up on first? And most of the people in false religion have more faith that God will do the right thing then we do?

juni

I can only "Imagine"..................

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0&mode=related&search=

Juni

seawolf

I'd see a much better world to live in IMHO

done4good

Many, like Dawkins, think that religion is the root of all evil.

Actually, if you read Dawkins, he is careful to say religion is not the root of ALL evil...

Anyway, I would argue that we are just not ready for this yet. If tensions continue, (Islamic, ultra-conservative Christian, etc), then it may be forced upon us. That will be a scary day. Not in the jw "great tribulation" sense, but quite the opposite. People will certainly rebel, in the worst possible way agasint such an effort. At the moment, I see no good comming of it. Maybe in another couple hundred of years, but not now.

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heathen

Richard Dawkins does not seem to know history very well . Communist nations have always warred against religion in the name of atheism .I don't think the world would change a whole lot without "christianity" . I know I can't stand christmas exept for the paid holiday at work but the whole thing is all about greed and stupid santa claus and rein deer , give me a break already . It's just a fairy tale that got way out of hand .

LtCmd.Lore

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.'

My point exactly. They don't have any laws demanding that people are atheists... that I'm aware of... The people just choose to leave out religion, so they are much better off. But, if you remember in one of the recent threads, Warlock went through some rough crap because of people trying to FORCE atheism on others. Lore

drew sagan

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

My guess is that after a few short moments without religion (or spiritual philosophies) mankind would turn and begin to shift through the ashes that where left and raise it up again.