please only answer this question if you are gonna tell me why the world would be better, not why it would be worse and how it would be a sin and so forth, read the question!
2007-02-16 12:38:01 · 10 answers · asked by laura n 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
PLEASE READ THE QUESTION!!
2007-02-16 12:49:23 · update #1
I am christian however I'll put myself in someone elses' shoes to answer this question.
Religion has caused a lot of wars and seperations between people. It also creates controversey.
2007-02-16 17:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jester 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no absolute answer for this question. Some would be better off and others worse off.
Some people require religion in order to have morals, and in most cases people without morals are not very happy. Therefore for those people no religion would make them worse off.
Others can have morals without religion, to them the world would probably be better off as there would be fewer wars and probably more tolerance (you can say that religion teaches tolerance but in reality it really doesn't in most cases, usually it teaches intolerance of other religions, lifestyles, and choices.)
Therefore the world would be worse off for some and better off for others. I know that you wanted only the WOULD be better off part but it is important to recognize both to fully answer the question.
2007-02-16 13:37:14 · answer #2 · answered by Josh S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't, in fact to me one of the biggest problems in the world, and especially in our country is that too many people have gotten away from the basic principals of religion..."The Golden Rule", it is/was taught in some form in every religion that I'm aware of, and it has been foresaken for ..."me, me, me..." Too many people have simply refuted and put any kind of ethic, belief, rule...out of their lives and feel they have to answer to noone. We criticize each other freely, without cause, ....I've read the question...but why dignify it with an answer that the world would be better.
2007-02-17 00:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by Duke D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion has caused many wars , many deaths, but everyone should be free to believe in whatever they choose aslong as it does not include hurting others. I dont think that not believing (atheism) is a sin becouse I think God sees those who dont believe anymore becouse of the suffering that life has put them through, those who spent there lives praying with no answer no solution to thier problems are the ones who give up on religion. They are not to blame, life has made them that way. Religion has caused many deaths due to religiouse persecution, but that dosent mean that those who do belive or have faith in a certain religion should be persecuted.
2007-02-16 12:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by rubykatt1635 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This one is simple: the world would NOT be a better place without religion.
Religion essentially has provided a basis of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral. Without this basis, we would never be able to build and live in a society as complex and complicated as our own. May I quote the physicist Werner Heisenburg (author of the Heisenburg uncertainty principle in Quantum Mechanics):
"Science deals with the objective material world. Religion on the other hand deals with the world of values. It considers what ought to be or what we ought to do, not what is. In science we are concerned with the discovery of what is true or false; in religion with what is good or evil, noble or base. Science is the basis of technology and religion is the basis of ethics."
2007-02-16 12:47:43 · answer #5 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i recognize what you advise. 9/11. Iraq. each and every time you turn on the information, that's someone who died because of religion. yet for the most area, those youthful adult adult males were tousled in the previous Islam called them. They were youthful, unemployed, negative, and indignant on the global. you ought to appreciate that maximum individuals are compared to that, and in my opinion all of us opt to save faith in something--no matter if that faith is in God, Allah, or only perception in ourselves. because the break of day of time people have gazed on the celebrities questioning what might want to lie above. it really is in elementary words human to have self assurance in the supernatural--that's what faith particularly is. the global, and the more desirable strengthen international locations, are shifting in the direction of a more desirable secular society. and that is high-quality, yet even as it comes right down to it, when we are about to die, or when we've only watched a loved one die, or giving start, or taking a terrible crap on the bathroom that appears like we've only given start---in moments that reveal the very middle of humanity, we continuously look to God. I truly see your aspect. i imagine a more desirable sensible question is: might want to the global be a more desirable sensible position with Islam? "more desirable sensible" is hard to outline. yet enable's ask it like this. As I sit the following and watch the information, do I wish that Islam and the Koran did not exist? definite.
2016-11-03 21:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would be a better place! It would be better because you wouldn't have all these factions trying to prove that "THEIRS" is the right religion, causing wars to prove that they belong.
2007-02-16 13:11:50 · answer #7 · answered by hera 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You ask what I think. I think it would be more rotten without the Lord. . Now, just what religion are you thinking about, there are many kinds of religion.......
2007-02-16 12:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a stupid question. Of course you put it in law and ethics so I guess you can't read.
2007-02-16 12:42:09 · answer #9 · answered by Jim R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, they already tried that once. It was called the dark ages.
2007-02-16 13:16:51 · answer #10 · answered by Kevin A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋