could you concieve of a world without religion, without the restrainst and confines of an ordered idology... without suffering and opression, without archaic barbaric customs and laws....
or do you prefer teh dog eat dog world we live in today?
2006-09-02 15:03:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
religion created a diety to worship, and it became an accepted truth...the one supreme god. trouble is, we all use a different name. and without religion the current muslim onslaught would cease, the middle east would become quiet as neighbours put away their Ak's... catholics and protestants in ireland would sup guinness together... and the list goes on.
god is a mythical creation. because how else to you explain creation to a bunch of fisherment and farmers... and nowhere n the bible, any bible, does it say go kill your neighbour because he or she calls me by another name. life is precious, al life is equally precious, so why do we take it so easily. why is teh blood of innocents being spilled...just so men like cheney and rumsfeld can make vast amounts of money... lying two faced politicians..
2006-09-02 23:24:41 · update #1
It's already been done.
2006-09-02 18:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Rachel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you propose to use scientific tools to measure natural phenomoenon in such a way as to disprove a supernatural theory?
Do you honestly believe that ALL of the world's evils come from religious ideology, and that without god, there would be no other kinds of ideology, such as political, or philosophical ideologies would simply take the place of religion as an exucuse to oppress, fight, and ignore others?
And lastly, do you honestly feel that responsible Humans would be any less responsible for the evils of the world today than God? After all, while the cruelty caused by supernatural beings is hard to define and measure, the actions of human beings are pretty obvious.
Many people in the past and present have denied the existence of God, and their worlds have not become better. Why would some world-wide change put an end to the current dog-eat-dog world?
More likely, stripped of their religion, thousands of formerly devout people would engage in upredictably different behavior, denying the loss of god, starting new religions, forsaking of hope, and engaging in all the risky and immoral behavior they had been taught to avoid, starting riots, quitting work, raping, pillaging... lashing out at whoever "proved" god did not exist...
In general, large sweeping change tends to bring about more pain and suffering than gradual changes.
2006-09-02 22:16:56 · answer #2 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much about how the world runs would change if we discovered there were no god. The rules we have would still be intact. Why would they change? Does god have an effect on the law that says you can't rape a person? No. Moral fiber does. The idea of god is already beginning to lose ground and the world is still running the same way it did thirty years ago. And how would we create a new god? People aren't the same as they were two thousand years ago. We are more intelligent and more critical, we wouldn't accept a new god just because the old one was shot down. I really don't understand what you're trying to get out of this question.
2006-09-02 22:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to your answer to your own question there is no god and therefore god cannot be responsible for anything. So who is left to blame? The god-creators perhaps? Yes, the very reasonable precepts of religion (and I include the major ones I know about) have been twisted by so called believers (and non-believers) to resemble nothing like the original concepts - there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the ten commandments of Christianity for instance but "Thou shalt not kill" has been transformed into theories of a just war (perhaps the motivation being to minimize the evil?)
Try living without an ordered ideology (civil or religious) and see where it gets you. Communist and atheistic regimes live in peace and harmony do they? Think again!
2006-09-03 12:36:35 · answer #4 · answered by jayelthefirst 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi.
If the ten commandments had been written by man,following said commandments would result in a peaceful world .
The fact that I believe they were God given gives them greater relevance to me both on a personal basis and the greater scheme of things.
The point is,that rules will always be bent and broken while mankind has the gift of free-will.
It's sadly a gift that is abused all too often.
God bless,
Misterviv
2006-09-05 07:33:56 · answer #5 · answered by misterviv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i wouldn't create one- religion/god(s) are the reason why different people have idealistic views about what is right and wrong. Being civil to one another is fine. Accepting is even better. Not that i'm a hippy or anything.
2006-09-02 22:09:59 · answer #6 · answered by antagonist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Jung on this one.
The question, in my opinion, misunderstands the nature of religion and metaphysics. The idea of God orthe divine not existing is absurd so long as people's collective and individual unconscious works in terms of religiously interpretted architypes. If one accpets the reality of psychic (meaning of the mind) phenomena (i.e. if you think ideas and mind actually exists as something sepperate from matter) and if you accept the idea of a collective unconscious (the idea that human societies form, and are formed by comunal ideas and mythologies) then God and gods exist in as much as they are part of the human architypal experience, just as the human unconscious mind only exists in as much as it is the emination of the collective and individual architypes.
Does that answer your question?
2006-09-03 19:31:37 · answer #7 · answered by Bovril 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but what if god did exist and made a similiar conclusion to yourself.
maybe thats why we don't see god's activity because god left the universe. And all these nutters are looking for god now.
i don't think this is the case but if your senario occcured I think it would. Because there is no point on blaming things on god. We have to accept responsibillity for humanity's actions from whatever point you come from
2006-09-06 17:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by slatibartfast 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone needs something great to believe in, to give their life meaning and direction. This could be the god of the bible or the fairy god.
People don't have confidence in themselves and the direction their life would take if they didn't have something to direct them. They therefore create a god of something to be their guide.
2006-09-06 07:09:32 · answer #9 · answered by lexi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE ATTACHED SO MANY DIFFRENT MEANINGS TO THE WORLD ABOUT GOD THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE OUT RIGHT JUST DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE EASIER TO CREATE A GOD FIGURE IN THEIR LIFE THEN TO ACCEPT OR GO ALONG WITH THERE MAYBE IS ANOTHER FIGURE MORE SUPERIOR THEN OURSELVES THAT HAS MORE CREATIVE POWER THEN WE HAVE YET BEGUN TO UNDERSTAND
2006-09-03 00:24:46 · answer #10 · answered by REALITYCHECK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeh - but hang on a cotton pickin' minute.
How do we know that fivetoze exists?
You could be the figment of a deranged mind!
2006-09-02 22:09:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋