If religion is the biggest source of evil, how can we get rid of it?

Question

As other people have pointed out before me, religion has done so much more harm to mankind than good. If we know this, how can we sit by complacently and watch as thousands of people die in the next religiously motivated war? What can we do to stop this madness?

Thank you brucebirdfield for citing Richard Dawkins! Very inspiring indeed!

And thanks a lot Tasa for your great rant! It's good to see there are people out there who think the same!!!

Answer 1

Religion is like a living thing - it would deny death.

How does a living thing reproduce itself? Life is based on genes that can copy themselves and then cause their mobile-home (the cell) to divide itself. Where there was one, now there is two.

A virus is like a living thing but is not truly alive, because it needs to hijack the functions of a living cell in order to reproduce itself.

Religion is a mental 'virus' that invades a living 'cell' - a brain, which it uses to reproduce itself, to pass itself on to another mobile-home, another brain. It hijacks the natural function (reason) of the brain, and when the brain reproduces itself the virus is passed on to the new brain (the child's brain).

Just as there are various viruses, there are various religions. They compete for brains to infect, and they cause the brains they infect (and thus the bodies attached to those brains) to compete (war) amongst themselves.

Religion is a virus that causes a brain to deny death, but at the same time promotes death amongst the brains it infects.

What do we do to protect ourselves from viruses? Whatever will defeat a biological virus will provide the model (analogously) for a strategy to defeat religion. Clearly it won't be easy and it won't be quick.

But whatever it is, we need it a.s.a.p.

Answer 2

well just don't give a **** to all those religious preachers. what ever they say just ignore it. u can't be more right by saying that religion has done more harm to us than good. it is the only single dividing force in humans in the entire human history. i just ask one question to all those bloody religious gurus, why the **** there are so many ******* gods if the ******* god has created us??? dude please mark my word, religion has already been the cause of sea of human blood and flesh. don't even try to put ur head in to it. religion is based on hypocrisy and lies. i can give you one very easy way to get rid of this madness. try to take the lesson of communism or the soviet systems. they didn't allow those religious suckers to thrive in their country as long as they were their. you can even try china or Cuba. and my another suggestion to u will be just do nothing and watch those religious bastards kill themselves. becoz the sooner they are finished off the better it is for us. and consider those innocent victims, which could even be you or I, some helpless person, was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Answer 3

faith isn't the source of all evil. that is only the skill during which it comes up. The source is greed, selfishness, etc. And it somewhat is realised via (or accounted for via) non secular motives or pretexts. If there have been no longer any religions, some jerks could nonetheless desire to declare wars (as a results of fact wars are great business enterprise) and there could nonetheless be poverty, starvation and injustice, yet there does no longer be so severe a help between basic human beings, as a results of fact they does no longer purchase those arguments like "There have constantly been unfavourable human beings", or "sure, they are suffering now, yet they gained't interior the afterlife", or "they are suffering now, as a results of fact they have been evil in a former life" i've got actual heard a non secular (non Christian) authority in my u . s ., Argentina, justify that a baby replaced into raped, asserting she replaced into evil in a prior life, so "that is not great, besides the undeniable fact that it replaced right into a organic component"! i'm no longer able to have self belief those adult adult males have any followers! i'm no longer able to even have self belief those adult adult males are no longer in reformatory!

Answer 4

I believe that Religion is the only thing that made man to follow a pattern of life, that made him to buid a world as contrast as this.
The harm to mankind was brought by the people who do not respect their religion and also do not know to respect other religion too.
No religion came into existence all of a sudden. The religion was a result of habits and habitats of certain group of people who were concentrated in a geographic area and began evolving and expanding their territory. This is when the other group of people met them and came to know about their life patterns. Here came a question whether to accept them or ignore them.
Now the people who started gaining wealth and prestige among each group opposed this intrusion of other group into their social life. They feared this intrusion would break their group apart and lose their esteem among their own group and they would become financially and socially weak. They are the one who planned to harm amd hurt human kind in the name of religion
and this is where started the new concept of
" War in the name of GOD "
We are ended up in a difficult situation now where no one can stop this inhuman acts, unless they understand what they do is going to finish them.

Answer 5

Can we get rid of it? I don't think so. For one thing, it's deeply imprinted in so many people from birth that this is good, this is right, this will keep you safe, this makes you a better person...even if history says otherwise. Another is our need for ritual and ceramony. Our best bet is to teach people how to think critically and logically about information presented to them, how to seperate fact and fiction, how to interpret results. And to prevent people from making law out of rules that support thier particular religious views and the exclusion of others.

Answer 6

"People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. This is the greatest gift God can give you: To understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for

Answer 7

Its impossible the human race is too ignorant to give up religion. They need it to feel like they have a purpose in this life and hopefully the next

Answer 8

I seriously find your assumption in error...Is it religion that has done evil or men? Should we all kill ourselves to prevent evil? this while drastic should actually be effective as all men are evil. Wait where did I hear that? Oh God tells us that. What would his answer be? That we be perfected by him in his likeness. wait we could just destroy religion! Hmm would that stop evil? well If all evil has come through religion? Wait there is still evil here after we destroy religion what shall we do? invent religion? No should we cry out to God? well if we don't believe in him it is not likely. What then shall we do who will save us? hmmm... dilemma seems to answer itself it is savior or suicide? which way do we destroy evil?

Answer 9

We can find the truth and try to help others find it. But we have to truly know or we risk giving or taking when we seek to help. We have to live in the Now. We have to rediscover what we are.

Answer 10

We can pretend Atheism isn't a religious belief and actually benefits society in some way. (Studies have proven this false- higher rates of depression, suicide, etc.)