2006-11-22 01:37:50 · 37 answers · asked by big bird 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question.
Sure there would have been far less wars, but then again both world wars had nothing to do with religion.
There wouldn't have been any witch burnings, but people would still have been hung, or tortured or killed for stealing to survive or for looking at a monarch the wrong way.
Sure you wouldn't have people knocking at your door hoping to shove the bible or whatever down your throats. Instead you'd probably get some scientist trying to verify his theory about where the world came from, and how we really are floating on the back of a giant turtle!
There would be less murder, but would there be less compassion?
Less rasicsm? Not by much.
The annoying thing about religion is, we need it. There are those amognst us who don't, but the majority do. Without it people wouldn't live as long, wouldn't be as happy, life would have no purpose, no meaning, those who seek the easy answer would never find it.
The idea of God is a great one, and his main message is pretty good too. The only problem is all the other **** that gets mixed up with it, people are human, and humans are corrupt, therefore there will always be those who will use religion as a way of controling, or surpressing, or going to war.
But people have survived thanks to religion, if you ask the question would there be anarchy and sin ruling the world without religoin, my answer would be slightly different...But you didn't ask that, so...In answer to this question. No I don't think the world would be a better place without religion. But I don't think it would be choas. It would just be slightly worse.
2006-11-22 03:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it wont this is a classic smokescreen argument used by secularists that ignores the last 40 years here in Britain . In this period we have had an increase in violent crime, teenage pregnancies STDS(AIDS) and the breakdown of the family just to highlight some of the problems and during this time church attendance has fallen . Its the amoral secular liberals who dominate western cultural and since the sixties we can see the results they say its liberation but is it really ? Yes there is problems with Fundamentalists in Islam etc but your cant judge religion by just highlighting extremists that's Richard Dawkins school of straw men arguments and just plain bigotry. What about the Dalai Lama a man of peace who lost his country but denounced violence or the late Martin Luther King Jr and The Salvation Army the list is endless . The world would in deed be better without hate that includes antireligous hatred.
2006-11-22 02:32:27 · answer #2 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just look at Britain, almost without religion, the most teenage pregnancy in the world, more people having 5-10 kids just to get benefits from the government, nothing stop them. A lot of trouble kids. Imagine that happen through out the world. Mayhem for sure.
2006-11-22 01:49:57 · answer #3 · answered by Lilu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats IF there was no relgion...well there is...and you can't say anything IF there was no religion to start off with, because you don't know how it would've been. And there are MANY religions, so live with it, and don't use this question again. Why ask a question with the word IF in it and something that we won't know how it is untill we have experienced it!!!
Please use that word IF appropriate.
Because IF many people use the word IF, then theres no point answering that question, thats IF they used IF because it's IF it happend or something.
What IF the word IF did not exist?
2006-11-22 06:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Stick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it would. Religion had tried to hold back a great many scientific advances, the Earth not being at the centre of the universe, a round Earth, evolution, and the very idea of science itself.
It would make the world perfect as there would be lots of other things to fight about but it would make it a better place.
I don't think religion is essential for ethics. if you believe in God and Heaven and Hell then surely good deeds could be seen as a way to avoid punishment or gain reward or just to please God. Also the Bible and other religious texts (but I'm most familiar with the Bible) are filled with violence, war, bloodshed, genocide in the name of God, but also by God itself.
The main problem with religion is that it imposes absolute rules that cannot be changed or reviewed, this causes most of the problems.
2006-11-22 02:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by donquixotereturns 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is used to attribute war by other means. Wealth and power are key elements.
WWII was not about the Jews. itwas about the expansion of a German Empire.
People will always fight for more. Its not religion thats the problem. Its greed and ignorance.
Religion is just an idea like communism or revolution. It is not religion that causes suffering........its the men in history who dictate it.
2006-11-22 01:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people followed religion properly then the world would be a better place, but that would be taken away free will. Not only this but the religious people now do not follow religions to the book anyways, and religion is the cause of 99.9% of all wars if you think about it, correct me if I'm wrong. but i suppose it would leave us with nothing to talk/argue about. Personally i think it would be a better place, we shjould all unite as 1, and all live in harmony! and then i thought would there be any rules/laws without the influence of the ten commandments........
2006-11-22 01:43:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the world would be a better place if we actually had a good justice system rather than the stupid cps letting people off all the time dor real crimes but locking people up because an 85 year old woman can't afford to pay her council tax on the measly state pension they get what a joke that is!
2006-11-22 01:45:13 · answer #8 · answered by harveysmummy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the John Lennon song Imagine, he talks about it, allot of people thought it was a anti god song but it was a song about ignorant reasons people go to war for and kill for., I deeply believe in God but I have to agree that people wrongfully go to war in gods name.
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 that 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
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
2006-11-22 01:44:21 · answer #9 · answered by Jon J 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Religion hasn't even helped the world in the first place.
2006-11-22 01:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by TPCAN 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋