2006-11-11 16:01:59 · 30 answers · asked by BMW M5 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO, I do not. Everyone has to believe in something. Without mystery in our lives there would be no fun. LL.
2006-11-11 16:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by italliansweety67 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist and I really would be happy if all religions disappeared. However, to say that the world would be more peaceful without them is stupid. Human beings will always find things to fight about, that is just the way they are. Look through history, there a many things humans fight about besides religion. So even though I think we would be better off without religion, I don't think we would be more peaceful.
2006-11-11 16:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the most part , YES. Although religion should teach peace and unity, Jesus Christ himself summed it up best at John 16; 2 " In fact , the hour is coming when everyone that kills you will imagine he has rendered a service to God."
This statement proves that not all roads lead to heaven and the wrong beleifs can inflame people to do horrible things i.e. Crusades, inquisition, colonialism, the holocaust, ethnic cleansing, modern day terrorism
2006-11-11 16:09:02 · answer #3 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No!!! A;though there has been a lot of blood shed in the name of religion. Religion is not the primary cause of violence between people. Greed is!! The desire to have more land, more wealth, more power, this is the cause of most war and violence. Even some so called religious wars are really nothing more than one group wanting something that another group has, but they try to cover the greed by using a cover of religion to try to hide it.
2006-11-11 16:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i once asked a friend of mine if there would be peace if there were only one race. i know, think of all the wars that were started b/c of religion. but it's just about as many as were caused by race. something's awry here...
humans adapt. the problem with that is, humans adapt very well. unless they are being constantly sharpened, they will adapt to the lowest requirements of their environment.
like, if life sucks for you, then life is gonna keep on suckin' and nothing will ever happen to you to make life stop sucking. the only way life will ever stop sucking is if you change your own perspective of it. the change has to occur in your own mind, not in the world.
racism, for example, isn't at all founded on race. this problem, that would surely exist even if there were only one race, would simply be called by another name. it would still exist in some other form because humans tend towards weakness under the gravity of sloth.
quite simply, if you remove what seems to be causing the problem, and the problem is still there, then that thing wasn't causing the problem in the first place.
like a smudge on a camera lens -- you wouldn't think there's a big fuzzy thing floating in front of you, you would immediately conclude that the smudge was on the lens, not on the world around you.
2006-11-11 16:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by phtokhos 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes I agree...the world would be more peaceful without "religions". However, the world would be nothing without God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Let's be clear,God is not religion.
"Religions" are man made concepts to create division amongst the people. God is not about religion He is about realtionships. There will only be one type of people in heaven.... believers!! Thus, there will be alot of people in hell who were so caught up on "religious" doctrine, they missed the relationship and totally MISSED the point.
Oh! And the main point that GOD is interested in is right here:
The Greatest Commandment Mark 12: 28-33
28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these."
32"Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
You see people can't even LOVE EACH OTHER or LOVE GOD, because everyone is to busy trying to have the sole authority, THROUGH THEIR CHOSEN RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, on what God meant to say , how he looks, what race he is, was he married, is there a trinity, etc.
It's actually kinda sad...and appreciate your question, because it made me THINK. Be blessed!
2006-11-11 16:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Albritton 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I agree completely. There are lot of religious wars but, there's a lot of secular wars also. Without Religion it gets rid of one conflict in the world. There's still more but, one less helps.
2006-11-11 16:15:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
History easily supports this position. Plenty of religion-based wars. When was a war prevented by a religious position? Lots of religious-related killings, even today. Lots of religious-related violence, suicide bombings, etc. I'm not saying it would be a cakewalk here without religions, humans would find something else to belong to. And it's hard to test the idea - there's no alternative earth history we can run.
"The greatest calamity in human history was the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clark
;-)
2006-11-11 16:08:46 · answer #8 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YES! think about Israel and Arabia fighting over that one piece of land for like what 1000 years? I mean come on and those political cartoons had a lot of people mad last year it would be so much better. Good question by the way.
2006-11-11 16:04:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I certainly agree, and I'm not the only one.
"The time has come for people of reason to say "Enough is Enough!" Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's devisive and dangerous."
--Richard Dawkins--
"Religion is an insult to human dignity, without it you would have Good people doing Good things and Evil people doing Evil things.....for Good people to do Evil things, it takes religion."
--Stephen Wienberg--
"The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save
the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted
enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had
happened." -- Richard Dawkins--
"It is time that we
admitted that faith is nothing more than the
license religious people give one another to
keep believing when reasons fail."
--Sam Harris-- Letter to a Christian Nation
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
--Thomas Jefferson--
2006-11-11 16:07:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, the world would be more peaceful if people would learn to keep thine own religion to thineself.
2006-11-11 16:07:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋