What do you think would happen if there was no religions and holy texts?

Question

?Would the world be better or worse?I do not think we would all a sudden become evil.I think good and bad are within our selves.But i am no expert .That is why i ask.I respect others opinionsI think we choose to be one or the other

Answer 1

See, the only reason you have a valid question is because you include the word "holy texts" in it. Many people say there is no god so what you see from them is, in fact, what happens when there is no god - nothing really bad happens.

As for holy texts, there seem to be a few that encourage conflict and the world would be better off without them (or at least put them on a shelf high enough that the fundamentalists couldn't reach them).

Answer 2

We'd still have room for wars and conflict based on race and politics. And arguments about rules and regulations based on the laws of a community.

Without an absolute "divine" source of right and wrong, some understanding of the contingency of the rules and mores of society might creep in, but the arbitrary absolute of the local military/economic/political ruler(s)would be another possibility.

There's also the possibility of the tyranny of the democracy: whatever the majority wants is right, without any other consideration. (Seriously bad news for minorities).

Answer 3

I respect the right of my neighbors of faith to believe whatever they choose, but I honestly believe that the world would be better without religion. Unlike others, I don't believe religion is the root of all evil and, were it eradicated, everything would be perfect. I know that humans would continue to squabble over land, wealth, political differences, and a number of other things. But religion, for all its good, serves to divide humanity. It encourages believers to be suspicious of those who do not believe as they do. It teaches that some are better than others, which some believers inevitably manage to pervert into a belief that some are superior and others inferior, or totally without value.

Answer 4

The problem with written holy texts is that they are open to interpretation. There is never any one single answer or opinion. Consequently, if, for some reason, we no longer had any access to perceived holy texts, one of two things would result.

1) Someone would feel compelled to write a holy text.

2) In a perfect world, the people would no longer look outside of themselves to find the divine. They would look to their interior world, their higher self, and discover that they are co-creators with the divine. And is this happened...

The world, our world, would be a much better place.

Answer 5

That's a tough question because you are assuming that people wouldn't just "turn bad" how do you know they would not have been bad in the first place. I think that people for the most part are raised to be good or evil. So you would have to know how their parents were raised. God is good and in the abscent of God what would their be?

Answer 6

I don't believe any of us would be here at all if there were no holy texts. In the days of Noah, people were so murderous and evil...the Bible says they ONLY thought evil in their hearts. We'd have killed ourselves off without the intervention of God in our lives.

Answer 7

I think religions would be even more scattered and divided without a cohesive text to hold them together.

Answer 8

Sounds really good to me. Of course the word would be better off.

Answer 9

the planet will be a happer place to live with no fairy tale god no holy wars and no lies of life after death and no fairy tale hell

Answer 10

If salt is removed from preserved meat - the meat spoils - same thing if you removed God, His people and His word.