1. No terrorist attacks
2. No klu klux klan
3. No killing of 6 million Jews(Hitler was a Christian)
4. No kiling of thousands of so called witches
5. No Religious wars
6. No George W Bush
7. No killing of millions of natives. (They started burning them alive because they refuse to accept Christianity)
8. No cruel enslavement of human beings( the bible instructs how to beat and punish slaves)
9. far less serial killers(most serial killers have strong religious upbringing)
1. More tax money because it would be no churches taken up space and not paying taxes
2. less wars because they wouldn't have a god to fight about
3. Better lives because atheists put more value on the only life we have
4. Less crimes. Why would Atheists want to spend the only life we have in jail
5. treating people better. Atheists will make earth heaven because this is the only opportunity to have a REAL heaven
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2006-11-21 17:27:04 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, more than likely, this world would be more peaceful.
2006-11-21 17:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Illegals Are S*** 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
It's after two am so I won't answer everything but here is a start.
First of all some of the greatest murders of all time were atheist
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin- Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic killed tens of millions with his atheist ideas
Pol Pot-blamed for the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians about 1/5 of it's population
Hitler was actually a socialist (National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party ) better known as Nazis killed nearly thirty Million people
He believed Germans were the master race. As someone who has read some of Darwin's work I know that this is something a Darwnist would believe in heavily.
And the master of murder was also an atheist Mao Zedong sometimes spelled Mao Tse-Tung-of China killed at least
20 million people out right and 20 million more with the famine that was caused by his policies.
Christians on the other hand believe what Christ said
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
If they don't believe in Christ words they are not Christian.
Revered Martin Luther King Jr was a Christian so he did not share your beliefs about slavery and the Bible,
President Lincoln believed in God
Christians also believe that if we get away with a crime on earth we still have to pay for it after we die. Atheist believe that if they get away with a crime they get away period.
If atheist appreciate life more why do they kill their innocent babies, and their sick, but let mass murderers who will probably kill again live?
2006-11-21 18:43:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Maxine 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Except you're forgetting that atheists are still human beings. Do you believe that people who are atheists wouldn't still be greedy? Do you think that they would not have conflicting ideals and beliefs? Do you not believe that they would not still ban together in clans or groups?
With the KKK... do you not believe that people can still be racist without religion?
Hitler was Catholic, but he was still an idealist and a racist. Religion is only part of who he was.
Admittedly, the witches (some real and some not) were killed by religious folk. Should we assume that if people decided to believe in a God in an atheist society that there would not be pressure on them to conform? If Wicca rose up, what pressure might atheists bring to bear to stamp out religion?
No religous wars, but what about good old imperialism?
No RELIGIOUS GWB, but still GWB.
They started killing the Natives because they were thought of as less than human. They killed them because they wanted the land for their own. Religion was an afterthought.
Not all slaveowners have been religious. The Bible isn't the only source of instruction in how to enslave people. There were laws written and they weren't always religiously inspired.
Serial killers having a religious upbringing is not necessarily the cause of their rampages. Usually these people are mentally disturbed and religion doesn't necessarily play a part.
You wouldn't have more money available because the Government would have to pick up the costs of the services provided by churches, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, orphanages, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, counseling centers and more that the churches provide.
Most wars are not about God, but rather forms of government. Don't assume that non-theocracies will alwasy be benevolent. Russia, for one was a government without a God, and was quite adamant about asimilating other countries.
A religious life isn't necessarily worse or less valuable than a nonreligious life. Do you have any empirical data to show otherwise?
What makes atheists who have no external motivation for justice and morality less likely to exhibit greed? Why should they be less likely to exhibit purely human predilictions toward self-centeredness?
I see quite a few nasty atheists on this site.... they seem to rival the Christians in thier outrageous slander. Can you show me how they are making the world any better than their religious counterparts?
Some nice claims you've made, but they have no basis in reality. Humans are humans are humans. We're greedy, nasty and shrewd.
We're also wonderful compassionate and filled with a desire to learn.
A particular philosophy, lack or adherence to any particular religion or non-religion isn't whats going to change us. The idea that none of us is completely correct, that none of us has the only path, the idea that two people with different opinions can both be right is what's going to help.
Forcing a world to believe only one thing will forever cause fighting.
2006-11-21 17:47:26 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You have an excellent point, but Atheists, while they don't kill as many people on average, still kill. The only reason the statistics are smaller is because there are a smaller amount of Atheists. They're also too busy being scientists and rationalists to go kill people. If religion doesn't kill people, then politics will.
2006-11-22 11:09:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Politics
2. Racism (not Christ-like)
3. Hitler was a lunatic, not a Christian
4. Salem executed less than 50, not thousands (check your facts)
5. Gotta' give you that one - no God, no religion
6. People wouldn't procreate without God? C'mon now.
7. Again, mostly politics. "Millions" is stretching it a bit, considering Jamestown & Plymouth were fairly short-lived, compared to Native American settlements across American soil
8. Not. Read it again. It instructs how to treat people who are in your service, as well as how to treat those you serve.
9. Same as Hitler
1. So, no religious freedom, huh?
2. Again, politics & greed
3. Atheists have no logical reason to appreciate anyone's life but their own
4. Atheists have no logical reason to regard anyone's life or property over theirs
5. See 3 & 4
2006-11-21 17:41:12 · answer #5 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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 are highly adaptable; they will adapt quickly to their environment, therein lies a problem, unless they're continually being sharpened, they will grow dull to adapt thuroughly to their environment. humans tend toward weaknesses under the gravity of sloth.
this intollerance would surely exist under some other name, but it would still exist. if you remove what seems to be causing a problem, and the problem is still there, then that thing wasn't causing the problem in the first place.
if you look through a camera and see a big blurry thing, you wouldn't think that there's some big blurry thing floating right in front of you, you'd immediately conclude that there was a smudge on the lens. that's what i'm trying to say. the smudge is on the lens, NOT on the world around you.
''and how can you say to your brother ''let me remove the speck from your eye,'' when all the while there is a plank in your own eye? first remove the plank from your own eye, then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's''
2006-11-21 17:33:46 · answer #6 · answered by phtokhos 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is hard to speculate - personally it would make me feel a lot more positive about the world but then everybody likes to have everybody else think the same way they do.
In truth - I can not say that non-theists are completely moral as a group. I think that would be an incredible stretch of the imagination.
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2006-11-21 17:29:43 · answer #7 · answered by Alan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some of the worst criminals of world history have been atheists (e.g. Stalin). I am myself atheist, so I don't mean to say that atheists are bad, but an atheist can do every crime that a religious person can do.
2006-11-25 04:18:26 · answer #8 · answered by Elly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm sorry i'm not atheist. yet i don't think of my answer is biased or something. yet in my thoughts, only simply by fact one is atheist would not recommend they're much less in all probability to homicide/conflict/rape/suicide/etc. some atheists could do those issues simply by fact they don't worry hell or something. not attempting to bash atheism. My bio instructor is an athiest and he tries to stay his life as morally and ethically as conceivable. i will nonetheless see the way you ought to think of that simply by fact lots of folk do loopy stuff (homicide/conflict/rape... yea i think of you get it now) simply by fact they're inspired by utilising faith. working example the "Holy Wars"? people have been doing it for God. Westboro Baptist Church? they think of they're doing it for God. on the different hand, religious people (reckoning on what faith) could strongly oppose doing undesirable issues. maximum religions (that i be attentive to of) have some form of rules that say you mustn't try this, you ought to try this. So basically, i think of the international could be fairly a similar simply by fact people have an inclination to do some loopy stuff no rely what their ideals are.
2016-10-22 13:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would still be a Ku Klux Klan. I've talked with Klan members and other various white supremacy group members and most don't base their hatred on the Bible.
2006-11-21 17:29:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think you have a point, but I also think that humans, being what we are, would likely find a different, more ridiculous reason to fight and kill each other.
2006-11-21 17:41:43 · answer #11 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋