i dont think it could.
2006-09-21 13:45:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely not. If it weren't for religion society would be wiped out. Noah's time would be a good example.
2006-09-21 13:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by roppster 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, of course it could. But people need a spiritual outlet. However, don't confuse religion with spirituality. Religions are our first attempt to express our spirituality. As usual, with first attempts, we got it wrong ('the Earth is flat' being a classic example).
Now the age of finding spirituality in and taking spirituality from religion is waning, and the age of finding spirituality in and taking spirituality from science is dawning. Maybe this time, we'll get it right.
If we don't, we won't sUrvive.
2006-09-21 14:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Society could survive without "religion" but it could not survive without a belief in good and evil,without a belief in GOD.Religion is a man made concept.
2006-09-21 13:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No more than religion could survive without society.
As long as people collectively strive for answers to the unexplainable , there will be religion.
2006-09-21 13:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by ©2009 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scandinavia seems to be surviving quite well despite that most churchs are museums now. Norway actually has the highest standard of living in the western world and is utterly secular.
2006-09-21 13:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As the least religious societies on Earth also tend to be the most peaceful, civilised, enlightened, egalitarian, prosperous and decent places to live, the answer has to be a resounding "Yes".
2006-09-21 13:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Society cannot survive if its members have lost the ability to share and sacrifice, if everyone furthers only his own rights and pursues his own interests, if the highest aim in life is the utopia if society is based on hedonism and egotism. it can not survive.
2006-09-21 13:55:02 · answer #7 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impossible . Society is not of humans then. Any isolated group tend to believe in supernatural.
one has to believe in something or understand it completely once a question like "is there any super power out there" araises. So, as no one has comprehended the situation, one has to believe in something. Religion !
2006-09-21 14:18:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it could either. It doesn't make a difference what your religion is you have to believe in something. If you do not then we have no purpose. Our faith and our beliefs are the catalyst behind our inspiration to exist and coexist in a society.
2006-09-21 13:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by NICOLE J 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you mean by religion. I believe society could function on secular humanism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Humanism
Which does not acknowledge the existence of a god.
2006-09-21 13:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by sax7515 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋