do you think this world would be a better and a more peaceful place without religions?

Answer 1

The problem with religions is the 's' on the end. As all religions disagree, there can only be one religion which is completely true.

So it is the false religions that are the problem.

If everyone followed the one, true religion of Jesus Christ, there would be peace on earth (to all men of good will), as the angels proclaimed to the shepherds in the fields at the birth of the Messiah.

YOUR QUESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED BY RECENT HISTORY
Because we already have an example of what the world would be like if there was no religion.

The 20th century was the bloodiest century in history, it was the century of the atheist experiment, when the world's first, self-proclaimed, atheist nations such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China demonstrated the depths to which humans can descend in a Godforsaken society.

A conservative estimate given by the Guiness Book of Records of the greatest crimes in human history puts the number of murders by the atheistic, Stalin regime at around 8 million people, and murders by the atheistic, regime of Chairman Mao at around 25 million people. Then of course, there were the countless murders carried out by the 'lesser' atheistic tyrants such as Pol Pot, Kim il Sung, Eric Honicker etc.

Add to this the 50 million or so unborn babies brutally and heartlessly slaughtered in abortion clinics around the world as a policy initiated, advocated and supported by atheistic, secular humanists.

All this makes the propaganda put about by atheists about the troubles caused by religion, just a sick joke. They must think people are either ignorant of recent history or just plain stupid.

Answer 2

Well, let's see. Hitler would still have been around, so WW2 would still have been fought. As would WW1. In fact, most wars are fought over land or because of treaties or some such. Religion is often blamed, but actually, there are lots of reasons people go to war. Ask the Romans, the British, the French and every other country that has fought a war in the last 100 years.

Answer 3

It seems you are asking from an Abrahamic point of view.

Many religions have come and gone, and some are still here. It is the Abrahamic faiths alone that have a history of violence, destruction of civilization, and wanton wastefulness of the earth's resources.

My best guess is that the world would be a better and more peaceful place without Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Answer 4

Some religions are peaceful so I don't see what harm they do. As for the ones that seem to excuse violence, those people would just find another excuse for their violence if the religion wasn't there. Deep down, people do what they want, some just choose to hide behind a religion thinking that will make it OK.

Answer 5

The godless are telling the international that faith is misguided and that conception in God finally ends up in wars of religion. yet in a unmarried century atheist leaders managed to kill better than thousands of tens of millions of human beings. Mao Ze-Dong (China 1958-sixty one, Tibet 1949-50) 40 9-seventy 8,000,000 Jozef Stalin (u.s., 1932-39) the purges+ Ukraine's famine 23,000,000 Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886 -1908) 8,000,000 Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-40 4) civilians in WWII 5,000,000 Ismail Enver (Turkey1915-20) 2,500,000 Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-seventy 8) a million,seven hundred,000 Kim II Sung (North Korea, 1948-ninety 4) purges and concentration camps a million.6 million Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-seventy 8) a million,500,000 Yakubu Gowon ( Biafra 1967-1970) a million,000,000 Leonid Brezhnez (Afghanistan, 1979-80 2) 900,000 Adolf Hitler (Germany 1939-40 5) 12,000,000 Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000 Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-ninety 8) 800,000 Tito ( Yugoslavia 1945-87) 570,000 Fumimaro Konoe (Japan1937-39 chinese language civilians) 500,000? Jonas Savimbi ( Angola,1975-2002) 400,000 Mullah Omar ( Afghanistan 1986-2001) 400,000 Idi Amin (Uganda1969-seventy 9) three hundred,000 Yahya Khan (Pakistan 1970-seventy one) Bangladesh three hundred,000 Benito Mussolini (1934-40 5) three hundred,000 Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire 1965-ninety seven) ?? Charles Taylor (Liberia1989-ninety six) 220,000 Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone 1991-2000) 2 hundred,000 Michel Micombero ( Burundi 1972) one hundred fifty,000 Slobodan Milosevic (Yougoslavia 1992-ninety 9) 100,000 Hassan Turabi (Sudan1989-ninety 9) 100,000 Richard Nixon ( Vietnam 1969-seventy 4) 70,000 Efrain Rois Montt (Guatemala 1982-80 3) 70,000 Papa rfile Duvalier (Haiti 1957-seventy one) 60,000 Hissene Habre (Chad 1982-ninety) 40,000 Chiang Kai-shak (Taiwan 1947) 30,000 Vadimir Iich Lenin (u.s. 1917-20) 30,000 Francisco Franco (spain ) 30,000 Fidel Castro (Cuba 959-ninety 9) 30,000 Lyndon Johnson ( Vietnam 1963-sixty 8) 30,000 Hafez Al-Assad (Syria1980-2000 25,000 Khomeini (Iran 1979-89) 20,000 Augusto Pinochet (Chile 1973) 3,000 At Zarquwi (Iran 2004-06) 2,000

Answer 6

well, probably not. religions don't really create conflict. religions just provide a unifying force and justification for territorial aggression. humans are primates and primates are highly territorial. whether religions exist or not humans will continue to kill each other over land and resources.
and ya know what? the more crowded with humans the planet gets, the more scarce the resources, the more conflicts will occur. expect to see wars fought over potable water and fertile soil.

case in point. Israel certainly did not attack southern Lebanon because of a couple of captured soldiers. what Israel really wanted was the Litani River and simply used the soldiers captured by Hezbollah as a justification to chase Lebanese civilians out of their homes in order to create a "security buffer zone" that just happened to include the much desired Litani River. the strategy didn't work but Israel managed to kill thousands of innocent Lebanese civilians in their attempt to secure a water source for Israel.

Answer 7

The sun is a source of energy, life, sustenance, and light. It'll burn your skin though if you stay outside too long. It's not the religion that is at fault, it's the people who don't know how to use it.

Answer 8

Could do without radical religious influence. Religion give people guidance and conscience. religion gives the rules of being human and to strive to be better.humans.

Answer 9

I don't believe no religion would make any difference, human nature would dictate that different wars would be fought over something else in it's place.

Answer 10

Almost certainly.

The number of wars that have been fought in the name of religion and the thousands if not millions of lives lost because of it bear testament to that.