Do you think that if the bible and koran had only just been discovered for the first time ever recently and the whole world had been atheists that anyone would actually take them serious? And would Organised religions would emerge? Or would they just a story in the papers for a while and then the general public would forget about? If you had never heard anything about religion for your entire life and then someone handed you the bible would you believe any of it?
2007-01-15 10:32:04 · 7 answers · asked by zed10096 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know people wrote but i mean if had been for lost years.
2007-01-15 10:46:10 · update #1
A logical inconsistancy. The old testament is not only God's revelation of Himself to us but also the history of the Hebrews.
Would you believe the Holicost if you just read it today? Man's inhumanity to man exists today, we see it everywhere. However the extent to which it happened in the 1930's and 40's is unbelievable.
2007-01-15 10:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by jemhasb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, they would not be taken seriously, religions would not emerge, and I would never believe such filthy trash. They would receive an X rating, be covered in plain brown wrappers, and be purchased only by miscreants who like to read about killing millions of people, instructions on kidnapping and keeping slaves, raping women and forcing abortions on them, etc. Parents all over the world would be demanding that the Bible be banned and burned, and would do anything to stop their kids from reading it.
There would be almost no wars, and millions of people would never have been killed for their beliefs. The world would be much better off if the Bible (and Koran) would never have existed. Ironic, huh?!
2007-01-15 10:47:20 · answer #2 · answered by gelfling 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, I wouldn't believe a word of it. I believe that if the entire world was atheist, and the Bible had just been discovered, then there woud be a very small group of people who would become "extremists" and believe in it, but the rest of us would just marvel at the ways of an earlier people, and treat it as an interesting myth.
2007-01-15 10:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't happen, religion is actually a basis of human beginnings, there's always been some form of higher power worship everywhere.
Hypothetically though if everyone turned into atheists and then discovered an ancient religion they would most likely chronicle it as an ancient religion and nothing more.
2007-01-15 10:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by Vantado 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's always a percentage of the population who will believe in anything. Their kids will be born into beliving in the same silly lies, and so on. Religion starts with stupidity.
2007-01-15 10:39:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
People wrote it, therefore was not discovered. However, that doesn't make it more true than Dr. Seuss.
2007-01-15 10:36:23 · answer #6 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This question really has no relevance because this whole idea is not the case in the reality we live in.
2007-01-15 10:36:31 · answer #7 · answered by thstuff9946 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋