religion ?

Question

if there was no religions .do you think we would have so many wars ? if thats so why dont we ban religion?

Answer 1

Keep kids away from religion, remove the religion brainwash from the schools and you'll have a smarter mankind.
But we're not smart enough (yet) to do it.
If we'll keep evolving the death of all religions is just a natural pathway.
The human race? still in beta test

Answer 2

Religions are not the cause of all wars. But, in some cases they are and we have seen it in the recent past. Wherever religions take politics into its control, there will start developing problems. Every religion disapproves the rest and tries to convince the world that they are only right one. Considering the present form of any religion, we can say it is the most dangerous social problem today.

Why we cannot ban religions? It has roots run deep into the hearts of 90% or even more than that of the world population. Banning religion is more difficult than reaching a total disarmament agreement worldwide or at least a nuclear disarmament.

Answer 3

The answer would be yes and no. Yes, because many of the wars today and in the past were caused by diferences and conflicts between religous practices and doctrines. No, because not all religions believe in making war but making peace with their fellow men, and resolve their diferences in a peaceful manner. I do not believe banning religion would resolve the conflicts, I think it would make it worse. Because people without any believe, do not tend to care about others or be tolerant with others beliefs. So religion in my opinion is needed in our society, eventhough there are some who use it for evil and not for good. Not all religions are the same.

Answer 4

"Religion is the opium of the people" one great man once said. And that is partly true. People find it difficult to live without religion. Religion gives hope and the longing for something better for the mans' future or afterlife. you must have noticed that the poorer a man is, the more religious he becomes. That is why he needs hope so much more than a rich one that has it all and doesn't need a god to provide for him. Surely if there were no religions there would be hardly any war. The key to peace is to accept other peoples' religion and to respect that they are different and have the right to believe to whatever god they choose. The answer is not to banish all religion, but to understand and to embrace the variety of the humanity.
I myself am a pagan and i find it really difficult to live in a country that does not respect people for who they are. Most Greeks are Orthodox and i feal like a fly in the milk. When i state my beliefs, they look at me strangely saying that i am a devil worshiper. Ofcourse that is stupid. But i can not sit down and explain to all

Answer 5

I agree. In history Religion has played a huge part in War and Racism, amongst other things. But of course, there are people out there that would lash out to such a banning of religion... I wouldn't mind, but I know people who would. For instance my Ex-Boyfriend is Catholic, and my friend down the street is Mormon... Some people need to be able to believe in some sort of an afterlife and over time, new religions would surface, and we'd be in a heap of trouble... If humans didn't focus on their afterlife, perhaps things would be better...

Answer 6

You are grossly mistaken to think that all wars are due to religion.

What you fail to see is the real and deepest truth which is that all wars are due to lack of religion - because people want to satisfy their own egos, bank balance, etc.

The last century witnessed people fighting over practically every issue, including nationalism, regionalism, language, even sports. Most of the wars in recent times, and throughout history at large, have been fought due to greed for wealth and power. Religion is just used as a convenient scapegoat by the powers that be to conceal their grossly materialistic motivations.

Wars have mostly been due to arguments over land and water not purely on religion. Modern day warfare is played out at a subtle level, i.e. through electronics. The latest wars are over oil - the US can try to cover up as much as they want to, but they can't answer why they don't try and remove the despotic leaders of some African countries - why do they focus so much on Middle East - because there they can claim the oil and get a profit on the pretense of some extremely loose moral issue.

If religion had been the singular cause of violence, then the countries where atheism was the national ideal should have been free from violence? Facts hardly agree with this conclusion, as can be seen from the history of the East bloc countries.

At a global level the rejection of religion leads to a setting, wherein ethics, morality, selflessness, love all become utterly meaningless. Although the anti-religionist may feebly urge us to "be good", such an appeal falls on deaf ears. "If the goal of life is to enjoy and I am here for who knows how long and there is no life after death, then why wait? Just enjoy. Beg, borrow, steal or even kill, but enjoy." Thus making religion dispensable is tantamount to courting global disaster.

However, we cannot ignore some of the wars which have been due to religions - and which are these? A deep examination will find them to be mostly between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Why is this? This is because all these have a very rudimentary understanding of religion. They concentrate on the promised land but almost totally ignore most of God's laws. They fail to see that the real promised land is with God in his spiritual kingdom and not on this material earth.

The Hindu concept of religion is, in contrast, extremely deep and thought provoking. The Hindu religion starts off first by defining who we are, then it explains what our surroundings are (the universe and matter), then it explains about time and how it influences everything (mostly towards decay and destruction), then it explains how and why people commit all kinds of sinful activity and the origin of sin, finally it teaches us who God is and our relationship to God. Nowhere here is any mention of a measly piece of land, especially a piece of desert.

One would have to be extremely naive just to point a finger at religion without having a very deep understanding of human history.

Answer 7

I do not belive religion is the cause of war but it does prove a good tool for recruiting unreligous people ie soldiers (which is ironic)
However, the only religion I know that has killed for relgious purposes in the last decade is Islam. because poor innocent people including babies in the arms of those testifying that they belive in Jesus the Messiah were killed by Nigerian and Phillipean muslims over cartoons drawn by non christian cartonnists in Denmark (thats right they werent even Christian) They also put a Christian man on death row in Afghanistan for not leaving his Christian religion and going back to Islam. what kind of religion is this? They will continue this behaviour in retaliation to the US military actions despite the fact that the US army is not really Christian also. work that one out? could you as a normal person, whether Christian or not, kill anyone let alone a baby?? horrid, pure horrid and ignorant
ps - I know of no other death in the name of religion other than Catholic killings for those that translated the bible ie the detah of Luther which was not in this era

Answer 8

Most people are scared unintelligent creatures. People need to feel as if they have a purpose in life as dictated by another being. This is why people look up to solve there problems instead of around. If humans realized that everything was really solely controlled by humans or the laws of nature there would be panic in the streets. Unfortunately Religion is the worlds' greatest necessary evil. For now.

Answer 9

Yes, I do believe that there would still be wars going on if there were no religions in this world. People want freedom, so there is probably going to be war.

Answer 10

I think a lot of the war is related to religion. If we ban war all the religious people wont know what to do with their lives next. Religion controls millions of people and countries infact. Religion is something for people to believe in and live their life by. All religions believe in God but many fight as they don't agree with what one is saying about the O'holy one up in the sky and how to pray to him.
So I don't think we should ban religion as much as I don't agree with it and it would cause so much more havock on what to do next.

Answer 11

People would still find things to fight about. Scarce resources, Race, culture, and power in general. Banning religion would be very difficult in some cultures because they don't separate their religion from their culture and their daily way of life. Interesting to think about though.