How can we save the planet from religious believers?

Question

For centuries 'God' was the best explanation people had for the existence of the world. These days, it remains an explanation, but it isn't the best one. It has been supplanted by scientific explanations that have so far stood up to scrutiny.This isn't to say those scientific explanations are correct, only that they are better explantations than 'God'.

Religious belief is the deliberate perverse belief in a less-good explanation of the universe simply in order to assuage the knowledge of mortality that humans have.

I'm convinced that the planet is basically split into two peoples: serious-minded individuals who want to solve the planet's problems and religious-believers who would rather have us all back in a luddite dark age, ploughing the earth with oxen and reading by candlelight.

I'm convinced that the end of Mankind will be brought by religious-believers.

Answer 1

let's hear your suggestions...this should be good!

EDIT

Shane - you should call yourself SHAME!

Answer 2

Educate people to believe in a more modern-day, 'positivity consciousness.' By this, I mean teaching people about tolerance and acceptance of others, practicing doing good and helping people, living by your OWN experience, thinking positively, changing the negative beliefs we have about the problematic things in this world (money, love, relationships, other races etc) to something much more empowering.

By doing this, we will be able to move this world forward, rather than be dragged back into the 'luddite age.' What's the point of clinging on to outdated, bigoted beliefs? They don't serve any useful purpose. Think constructively and we will be able to LIVE constructively. This type of education and thinking will also encourage creativity, imagination and ultimately, solutions to the challenges we face.

Let's start now........

Answer 3

Don't be too discouraged. In most of the civilized world, and especially the countries with a higher standard of living, the "religiosity index" has been steadily dropping for decades - probably generations. This is so much so that people who say religion is not an important factor in their life constitute a VERY large majority of the adult population in 6 of the 8 most "advanced countries." In the U.S., which at first glance seems to be an exception to this rule, the situation is not as progressive. But the country is certainly not as "religious" as the shrill evangelical minority would have us believe.

Answer 4

I hear you ALL THE WAY!!! I cannot believe the world is in these hands. I keep waiting for the BIG BOOM as related to religious zealots pushing their beliefs of a rapture before it blows, or the belief that Mohammad will save the Muslims and kill us DEVILS. And yes the Jews who believe they are the favored ones....Get the picture????? Man WILL KILL EARTH No one else People will die at the hands of the religious .....

Answer 5

thats a good question. i think you are right, but i would not take it so seriously, there is no god, we wont c the end of the human race.. but a 50 mile long rock might hit the planet.. religious people will probly blame the devil 4 that.. they will pray and the rock will disappear..

Answer 6

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 7

Eh, education can't solve everything. Many suicide bombers have college degrees.

What we need is more of a push towards critical thinking, logic, and evidence-based decisions. Everyone is free to believe whatever they want, but when they think what they believe gives them the right to infringe on someone else's freedoms, that's where we have a problem. We need to sit everyone down and explain this. And if that doesn't work, we're all doomed.

Answer 8

Its survival of the fittest.
Religion has been in serious decline for some time and will eventually die out.

The more intelligent people who are capable of clear, rational, critical thinking will thrive.
The notion of hanging onto mediaeval superstition and religious nonsense will continue to die out.

Answer 9

Although I think I understand what you mean I must explain that it isn't the planet that needs to be saved from religious believer, it is the people on it. It is in the best interest of all of us to save the planet.

Answer 10

Religions would be ok if religious leaders didn't use it for controlling people and getting radical and getting people to kill each other. If people send them money that is their problem if they feel this guy is liked by God better than them.
Before I would send money I would ask myself why do I think sending money to rich people gets me closer to God?
If you want to help poor people send it to poor people, not some rich dude on TV.

Answer 11

It's a struggle because they think this is a testing ground for heaven or hell, and believe ruining the planet is some sort of God vs. Satan plan. Really scary this type of thinking. The rapture people are a lost cause. We need to educate the youth before they are also brainwashed into this nonsense and make them see our planet as the thing that gives and sustains life as we know it.