I'm just wondering because alot of hatered,differences,arguments,and death are over different religions.Thats just sad to me.
2006-10-13 18:56:51 · 27 answers · asked by brandy538 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just think what life would be like without hope?
2006-10-13 19:03:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
religion is part of society. it evolved over the years as society progressed. Why do you think religion has anything to do with hatred or war? Even when there was no religion, men would kill each other over other things. Differences are human nature but to settle them peacefully is not in the nature of every human.
Todays world is not a sad place coz of religion, its sad coz no one wants to understand the other. The middle east is more about land grab than religion. Each party in essence wants more land. Religion is just a banner to stand under.
More wars and more killings have taken place coz of nationalism or race. Do you think the world would be a better place with no national identity as well? Even so people would make some other group.
So the answer is no. Infact religion, all of the faiths, teach tolerance and if practiced & not only preached, they can help heal the world!
Peace out!
2006-10-14 02:25:04 · answer #2 · answered by Fez 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was just singing John Lennon's "Imagine" this morning and I was wondering if the world would be the perfect place he imagined.
I seriously doubt the world would be all that much more peaceful. Man tends toward chaos and will LOOK for something to fight about with others, or so it seems. Politics and Religion are just very convenient hot buttons to push, but I'm sure we'd find something to have a war about... like... natural gas, land, morality and ethics. There would be as many beliefs about what is right and wrong, they just wouldn't have the bible to back them up anymore.
SSDD
2006-10-14 02:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just as screwed up. Wait, no, it would actually be MORE screwed up. Most religions at least give people some good moral principles to live by. Humanistic atheism does not. And if the world is nothing more than a meaningless accident and there is no God, why not do whatever the heck you feel like?
Seriously, don't kid yourself. The true problem with human beings is that they are defective in their very nature (i.e. evil), not that they have religious beliefs. If religion didn't exist, people would just find other stuff to fight about.
2006-10-14 02:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by quicksandvalley 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Peaceful
2006-10-14 02:14:44 · answer #5 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a system of social coherence based on a common group of beliefs or attitudes concerning an object, person, unseen being, or system of thought considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine or highest truth, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions, and rituals associated with such belief or system of thought. It is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system"[1], but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.
The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. "Organized religion" generally refers to an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion with a prescribed set of beliefs, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). Other religions believe in personal revelation and responsibility.
Other models see religion as absolutely and unchangingly True. They contrast with both the first group of models (which held religion to be false), and the second group (which held religion to develop over time). Models which view a particular religion as absolutely true include the Jewish and Christian model which holds that God relates to humanity through covenants; that he established a covenant with all humanity at the time of Noah called the Noahide Laws, and that he established a covenant with Israel through the Ten Commandments, and also Jesus Christ did establish a covenant with the world through the New Testament. Exclusivist Models hold that one particular set of religious doctrines is the "One True Religion," and all others are false, so that the development of the True Religion is tied inexorably to one prophet or holy book. In this model, all other religions are seen as either distortions of the original truth or original fabrications resulting from either human ignorance or imagination, or a more devious influence, such as false prophets or the influence of another rival supernatural entity (such as Satan). The model of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is nuanced differently than either the progressively true model or the absolutely true model, in that its leaders have taught that foreordination included plans by God that prophets as well as other good men and women (for example, Muhammad, Confucius, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, the Founding Fathers of the United States and Gandhi) would be inspired by God during the course of human history who would bring much light, truth and knowledge though not necessarily a fullness of truth to their particular societies.
I dont know what will happen without religion....
Maybe the world will be full of hatred....
2006-10-14 02:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
soviet union, Stalin killing hundreds of brave men because he lacked the military skill to effectively fight the Germans, look to the loss of life stand point. China, massacred student demonstrators, any nation without religion is a hopeless weak just built to fall apart. So you focus on the loss of life by religion, sort of weighed out by the loss of life by men without a god, right. Imagine a world without no doctrine of peace, does not sound like a world worth living in does it.
2006-10-14 02:19:06 · answer #7 · answered by Eloy B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think John Lennon said it best with his song "Imagine".
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
2006-10-14 01:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The focus would shift from doing good deeds with an afterlife reward in mind to doing good deeds just for the sake of being a good person.
2006-10-14 02:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think there would be less reason for people to ask this ten times an hour on Y!A.
But the answer your question, people would still be people. And that is what you should fear and enjoy.
2006-10-14 02:00:52 · answer #10 · answered by BABY 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No religions.....the world would breathe alot more and people would be connected more fully with Source... God ... the Creater.
2006-10-14 04:05:33 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋