Considering all the positive and negative effects on society...as well as possible consequences to you and your family...
2007-03-20 06:41:02 · 24 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would probably rally some more forces first, then maybe. I would have images of burning women and torture chambers in my mind the whole time. We know how well some folks take a new idea.
2007-03-20 06:45:13 · answer #1 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the burden of proof is on the atheists as most of the proof is there already i.e. we know evolution happened, man has existed for 40k+ years and there where other species similar to him at the same and prior times, there was never a global flood, Abraham did not build Mecca, etc. Basically, the facts and evidence is clear for anyone to see.
People will need to come to grips with the fact that you can be moral with out having a higher power enforce those morals.
2007-03-20 06:51:49 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some claims about various gods can of course be disproven, but it changes nothing. We've had the proof about the mythical nature of the Genesis creation story for a long time but people out there still cling to it. besides, theists continue to withdraw their god beyond the realm of proof. First he was on a high mountain. When the mountain was climbed, then he was in the sky. When the sky was breached, then he was in another dimension. You can prove god is nowhere that we can find and theists will always imagine a place out of our reach for him to be hiding. So there would be no effect, since we already know the mystical mind requires no proof of its primitive and unscientific beliefs and resists all evidence of the falsehood of those beliefs.
2007-03-20 06:48:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the positive effects on society would significantly outweigh the negative.
Also, the thought that there would be "possible consequences" to myself or my family speaks volumes about the mindset of believers.
I don't know of any atheists who would attempt to harm a believer upon the revealed proof of God's existence.
2007-03-20 06:45:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Proof has nothing to do with god belief. People believe in spite of the absence of proof, people who assert proof or who look for it don't really believe.
What positive and negative effects? Your phrasing is a bit ambiguous there. Are you saying that religion is absolutely beneficial and lack of it is absolutely harmful? Sorry, that's just another belief that is demonstrably not true. Lack of religious belief correlates for a less crime prone societies with lower rates of divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, etc.
Most of my family are varying kinds of southern baptists, I doubt they'd hang with me. A few of them might even help if the lynch mob demanded it.
If I could demonstrate in an undeniably conclusive way that the world has no supernatural dimension, who could object to it after hearing such a proof? Once you've seen the emperors hairy back, pot belly and dinky dong how can you deny that he has no clothes on? Who would defend the falsified assertion of the existence of his splendid robes with criminal viciousness?
2007-03-20 07:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is it a possibility to be an amermaidist once you are able to no longer prepare the non-life of mermaids? i do no longer think of mermaids exist, I very lots doubt it in certainty. besides the fact that if, i'm no longer able to coach that mermaids do no longer exist. it rather is impossible to coach that they do no longer exist so is there lots think approximately no longer believing in mermaids? If I say i'm an amermaidist then I replace into condemned for no longer with the flexibility to coach that mermaids do no longer exist. might or no longer this is greater effective off to be agnostic approximately mermaids besides the fact that if then i might get accused of sitting on the fence.
2016-10-19 04:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by tonini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
youre damn right i would!!! its high time this world knew the truth and stopped operating on a lie! and just for the record, those who make the claim are the ones charged with providing the evidence. it is the religious person making the claim that god exists who must be the provider of proof, not the challenger to that claim. this is what most religious types fail to understand.
2007-03-20 06:54:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheistic societies like Norway, Sweden, Holland are far more loving than religious societies.
So, yeah, of course I would tell. I want a better world for my future children.
2007-03-20 06:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to proove a negative. But all the evidence suggesting it's a pile of rubbish is all ready out there, and there is loads of it, and people tell it everyday. The problem is if people don't want to hear it, then they won't.
2007-03-20 06:45:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hypothetically (as it must be), I'd tell the whole Planet! Loudly!
What "possible consequences to you..."? For telling the Truth?
Oh, yeah... like Copernicus & Galileo. Well, it'd *still* be loud!
2007-03-20 06:46:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋