Atheists, would you honestly be more content if everyone chose to leave their religion behind? Believers, what would be your purpose if everyone converted to your religion?
Believers would have nothing to fight for and atheists would have nothing to fight against.
By the way, I'm not really talking about religiously influenced wars. People are greedy and will always find something to go to war over.
2007-03-03 16:59:47 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am an atheist. No, I would not be happier if everyone thought like me. What a boring conversation I would have with anyone.
I would be quite satisfied if most of the theists I have met and read here on this forum would know the difference between faith/belief and facts/knowledge, and leave it at that.
I have nothing against people believing or having faith in their gods. I do have some problems when these people insist that I believe as they do when they provide no objective, validatable, verifiable evidence. I do have some problems with these people, when they do not get their way with me, insult me and then hide behind their belief in their god...."you will burn in hell, I don't want that to happen, but my god has decreed it..."
2007-03-03 17:09:30 · answer #1 · answered by CC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps along with a newly adjusted focus on the large problems of the world like war but your point makes a little sense without further thinking . Did you see the Stephen Weinberg's quote on the similar idea yesterday ?
There will always be good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil, that takes religion." Noble prize-winning physicist Stephen Weinberg
courtesy of Brendan G
and yes I would very happy if there was no religion and we actually worked on secular or spiritual means of evolving a suitable system of ethics that was actually effective because even though people still do evil it has been alleviated by education and the legal system and that is a fact for the US if not most countries . these days are unlike any other in history before and the future will be even more different .
2007-03-04 01:23:34 · answer #2 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank God! One of the intelligent and nice atheists has finally signed on.
I think that one of the beautiful things about society is how different we all are. Our appearances vary, we think differently, we are all so diverse. I think if we all believed the same way it would take something away from society ... I would like to think that the world might be a more peaceful place, but it would lose something.
I would also like for everyone to have the peace and happiness that I have in my beliefs. But I understand that others might acheive the same peace by going down another path.
I love living in a vastly diverse world. It certainly does make things interesting.
2007-03-04 01:07:55 · answer #3 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The main reason it matters is because beliefs obviously do shape society. If some of the Christians had their way, public school science would be replaced by theology and Levitical law would be revived on the single point of its policy on homosexuality. The only thing that stops them is that there are still a sufficient number of people in authority here in America who believe in separation of church and state. Atheists, meanwhile, generally just want to keep secular things secular. It's not like they're storming the churches demanding that people stop praying. But the point is that, whatever your beliefs, you have to have a sufficient number of like-minded people in order to succeed in society.
2007-03-04 01:15:13 · answer #4 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would be the quickest way to an Earthly paradise - an Utopia, if religion (Starting with Christianity, then Islam) were obliterated from the Earth.
...and I'll tell you why:
the only thing in the way of scientific progress is religion - it was religion that wanted to kill Copernicus and Galileo for disagreeing with the Bible that the Earth was the center of the universe, and saying that the Sun was the center of the solar system. (Yes ther Bible says the Earth is the center - Look it up yourselves - Google it!)
Religion wants to halt evolutionary science, (Which it doesn't take much research to discover that evolution happens in labs all the time - idiots!)
Reason-based morality is superior to faith-based morality...
i.e. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife or remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, or "honor your father and mother" - these aren't laws, or commandments, they are polite suggestions and good ideas...
I could give an hour lecture on reason based-morality and will gladly email a reason based morality to anyone who asks...
Any group or individual who has a message or book from God is dangerous - nomatter what.
God impedes free thought, the doctrines of religion offer no free will they say, "Join me or die!" -
WHY WOULD I GLADLY SWEAR MY ALLEGIANCE TO ANY KING WHO WILL KILL ME IF I DON"T - and none of this, "God doesn't kill you, you choose... That's ignorant BS from those who are incapable of any measure of depth of thinking...
If there is any enlightenment to be had, it is a HUMAN enlightenment. We do not need a cosmic nanny to tell us how to eat and wipe our ***.
It is a fundamental and heavy insecurity that all men are born with that says, I do not know where I came from and I do not know where I am going... If you add to this (i.e. RELIGION) then your delusion is in proportion to your faith, because you- in all actuality do not know a whit's more than anyone else...
You are just weak. Too weak to face your autonomy. Too weak to imagine the strength of your alone-ness.
religion is the problem - there is not one single thing that is progressive or beneficial about it.
2007-03-04 01:23:52 · answer #5 · answered by The Burninator 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would make me happier is if everyone believed that everyone is entitled to thier own opinions and beliefs and to keep an open mind to these and to be kind and and not to ridicule a person for believing the way they do. Everyone is entitled to speak their beliefs but not if they are going to say "Convert or else" instead of telling a person that if they don't believe or do believe in something that such and such will happen tell the person WHY YOU believe the way you do and ask the person why they believe they do present your arguments but don't let it get out of hand. (in mock Yoda voice- Name calling leads to fist fights, fist fights lead to weapons, weapons lead to killing, killing leads to the dark side of the force.)
2007-03-04 01:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by Cat's Eye Angie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not. If everyone thought the same, dressed the same, behaved the same, spoke the same, needed, hated, loved and believed the same, we'd be living in an stagnant world. Stagnation leads, ultimately, to death.
If we all thought alike and believed the same things then there'd be no need to communicate, no need to create art, no need to fall in love with people who surprise us with their beauty or their interesting viewpoints. That would make us very lonely, and since that kind of thing goes against human nature, it would probably make us more than just a little bit deranged.
However, We do need to learn to be tolerant for others.
2007-03-04 01:05:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, because it would be boring. Like Stepford, or something...eww. And I wouldn't have a reason to rant :)
But seriously, the reason that we should have opposing views is because they make us more tolerant with the other side's opinions. It also gives us the time to actually think outside our points of view for a second and become more understanding to the other side, because that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to "accept" it, it just means we know more about it and why we choose not to switch.
2007-03-04 01:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't want to fight over anything so I would not miss the challenges from atheists or agnostics, I would be very happy if everyone came to a belief in God because it is what He wants. He loves them all.
2007-03-04 01:10:19 · answer #9 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes i like the fact Atheism is a pretty intellectual position. I do want people to have some hope in there life. That is something religion gives them. In general the world be better if there was no religion.(i think) Yes if there was no religion we would got to the politics section ague Democrats vs republicans or car section Ford vs Honda.
No i dont want everyone to think like me. That would be pretty boring.
2007-03-04 01:06:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋