If it could be proven that there was no god, how could people whose lives depend on belief in god go on?

Question

Would the entire theistic world suddenly "up and quit", and kill themselves?

Of course not.

The answer is obvious. People would deal with it. They'd learn to accept it, and because WE ALL KNOW we have this capacity, we know humanity will one day progress beyond the limits of human religious invention.

The mere fact that you can comprehend the implications of this question proves that you can conceive an existence, A GOOD EXISTENCE, that does not include a god

And guess what... the world would go on, business as usual.

It might even get better.

Answer 1

Contrary to what you believe, you have not proven your point. Yes, if it were proven beyond any doubt that there is no God;christian society would learn to cope with it and with not a little egg on their faces. But my grasp of the concept that you have set forth does not mean there is no God. It just means that man learns to adapt to what is handed to him. In the comprehension of your question, I have admitted that I could conceive of an existence without God. But it does not prove your point that one day humanity will progress beyond the limits of religious invention. It only proves what happens everyday, we adapt. Any supposition has to be made as that and not have declarations of supposed fact included.
Maybe you should have worded it differently.

Answer 2

Maybe we must add. Believers are people whose have lived to the teaching of their religions of God which teach them to be good. Without such teaching, the world will be chaotic. We must not be so naive to think the world will be peaceful if such people have suddenly lost their God. Their good behaviour is a blessing for those who deny the existence of God. Be frank to admit this, if there is no God, this world will become like the animal world. Everyone is living with fear of becoming the meal of the other living animal. It will really be the survival of the fittest. Thank God, we have people firmly believe there is God and have been showing and responsible to draw up laws and orders to build up a orderly world so that we may live at least like today.

Answer 3

You got it backwards. People didn't invent God or their thirst to find Him and worship Deity. God programmed it into their souls to look for Him. How can anyone be good without God? There is NONE righteous, not one.
No, we would be without hope in this world without God. Without God life would cease to exist. The planet would not remain on it's axis and in perfect orbit. There is no one living or breathing that doesn't depend upon God to grant them their next breath, their next heartbeat, through His grace and mercy.
No, I can't comprehend a world without God. It is awful enough to consider what it would be like if there were no salt (Christians) in this earth. I'm sure all the God hating Christianphobias would love to see the Christians decimated from existance (sounds like Hitler and the Jews doesn't it?) because they think the voice of conscience would be silenced and the God whose Word the truth is shared from might cease troubling their seared consciences. I'm told if you keep doing something wrong long enough, you sear your conscience with a hot iron until you don't feel bad about it anymore much like a serial killer does. I think that is the world you would live in without Christians in it. But as long as God is in this world and will never leave us nor forsake us, even until the end of the age, there's not a chance we would be able to survive without Him or would have to try. That's good to know.

Answer 4

Yep we have had some very strong powerful leaders that were atheists... Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin.... oh wait around 40 million people died in their regimes!

I think if you look a the people that are honestly looking you will find the evidence the other way and that God exists and that he did send Jesus to die for our sins!.

Even the old atheistic spokesman that had debated C.S. Lewis (you should read Mere Christianity), Antony Flew said recently that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved."

Answer 5

There IS a GOD and you CANT prove what would happen if there wasnt a God. I WOULD NOT GO ON WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL. I WOULD NOT DEAL WITH IT. I WOULD NOT LEARN TO ACCEPT IT. THERE WILL NOT BE A DAY THAT HUMANITY WILL ONE DAY PROGRESS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN RELIGIOUS INVENTION. AND YOU CAN NOT PROVE THAT THE WORLD CAN CONCEIVE AN EXISTENCE THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE GOD.

GOD IS REAL, HE WILL ALWIAS BE REAL, AND YOU CANT CHANGE MY MIND, OR WHAT I SAY!!!!

Answer 6

You would have to be God to prove that there is no God. Don't you understand that you have to know everything about everything in this vast universe to say that there is no God.

It's like you telling me that there is no oil in China. That would have to mean that you have drilled every square inch of China to make this statement absolutely true.

The same is true of God. Have you researched every single planet of every single galaxy in the universe and have infinite knowledge to say that there is no God? Nobody has and nobody will.

Answer 7

I doubt it would get better. Liberals hope that once religion is gone that people would abandon conservatism. This would in turn result in the advancing of a socialistic or even communistic liberal agenda. The final result would be people who are slaves to the government rather than somewhat slaves to their faith.

Answer 8

Faith is something that you cannot see but believe that there is something out there...

Faith
-noun
1. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

2. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.

Answer 9

Is this supposed to be a deep profound question? It's stupidity! The imagination can come up with all KINDS of absurdities! Does that mean they will all progress to realities?

I KNOW God. We've met PERSONALLY! His name is JESUS!

DEAL with it! He's not going anywhere!

Answer 10

God is without denial, but the condition of the theist world is always in turmoil and chaos, because they worship concepts created by men