Would the world be better off without religions?

Question

Tell me what you think, if you are for or against the existence of religions in the world and why!

Answer 1

The world would be better off without religion IF people would become more spiritual. Religions were started by man, are ran by man and have all the problems that mankind has.

Spirituality on the other hand does not depend on someone else telling you what is right and wrong. It is via direct contact with the source that you know what is right and wrong.

Look at how many people have been killed throughout history due to religion. Look at how many people are being killed in modern times, all because of religion. Any god that claims you must kill others to stay in his good graces is not a god worth following.

You can not determine whether a person is good or bad because of their religion, yet most religions tell you a person is bad if they do not agree with that religion. I honestly believe religions were started to control people and that is exactly what they do.

Answer 2

No. That word "religion" puts a very bad
taste in my mouth; not because of what it
is, but because of what some have suggested that it is, or others have made it become.
Call it what you like; the meaning of it is
the communion with the closest relative I have, being God the Father. It is a relationship that you cannot find looking thru a telescope, or digging in the ground. Its a feeling of absolute protection and surety.
A coming together of mind, body and spirit that teaches lessons far beyond how to be nice to your neighbor, or why its not a good idea to steal - rather the understanding of
how easy it is to do the wrong thing, and how damn hard it is to do whats right, and a mirror into the soul of self that makes you
realize that the more of self you abandon, the closer you can be to the Holy Spirit of the Living God. Mans aspirations can't ever hope to reach higher than that. We as people tag everything with a name, and yet it doesn't matter whether you would choose to tag this "religion", or "God", or "a choice to disband all 'religions' ", it doesn't matter because no man has the power to take this away, and any attempt at it will be fruitless.
Mans power falls like a house of paper with a move of His thought. While the World contemplates the ruination of Gods communication with His people, God ready's his own to fulfill a purpose unknown to you, silent to your ears and blind to your eyes, and yet open to any heart that wills
it.

Answer 3

I think we would be a lot better off.
Religion doesn't enrich us, it keeps us stuck in the past. We probably wouldn't be in a war right now if there was no religion. Think of all the money being wasted on fighting, what that could do for people here and around the world.

Religious folks try to point out the good in religion, It seems to me we could do those good things, just not under the guise of religion. You could still give to charity, do volunteer work, help young people. None of this is exclusive to religion.

Answer 4

I will answer by asking a question:

Would the world be better of without people who didn't believe in God?

(There are a lot of very good people out there who have done much for the world w/o believing in God)

There are also a lot of religious people that because of their religion, have been inspired to do wonderful things, too.

Answer 5

John Lennon sure thought so. You have heard his song "Imagine", I imagine (lol), where he says, "Imagine there's no Heaven. It's easy if you try. No Hell below us, and above us only sky."

It is hard to say, I think if we would be better, or worse off, without religion. Religion does provide us with some good guidelines for decent human behavior, along with some really pathetic bad examples, like King David, who broke God's laws (yet was still called "a man after God's own heart"). But on the other hand, people of opposing religions always seem to be at each other's throats, like the Moslem Arabs and the Jews, and the Christians, who so often have went to war with other Christians, while preaching "thou shalt not kill" & "love thy neighbor as yourself" & "do good unto those who despitefully use you".

So it is debatable, but I guess really I do not know the answer to your question, or have a good, stable opinion there-on.

Answer 6

Religion is a very bad thing.

Spirituality is a beautiful thing.

Religion is almost political, it moulds society into shapes and forms that cuase suffering, hurt and tension.
Spirituality is an individuals connectedness with God. It doesn't involve anyone else, if everyone was spiritual and focussed on improving themselves as decent, compassionate people and didn't obsess about the faults of others, I think the world would be a much better place.

Just my opinion. I know a lot of religious people will disagree with me for criticsing their "club" and give me a thumbs down, but imagine if everyone only cared about making themselves better as kind hearted, happy and caring people rather then forcing others to share their beliefs through religion, killing people in the name of their God or being unfair, ignorant or cruel people becuase of something that is written in their book.

Answer 7

Depends on who rules the world. If God rules, then there is no problem. As this is not the case now, as long as there is imperfection, people will need religion to make sense of the here-now.

Answer 8

Where would humanity be now if not for the great religions of the world?

Historians of science, including non-Catholics such as J.L. Heilbron,[94] Alistair Cameron Crombie, David C Lindberg,[95] Edward Grant, Thomas Goldstein,[96] and Ted Davis, have argued that the Church had a significant, positive influence on the development of civilization. They hold that, not only did monks save and cultivate the remnants of ancient civilization during the barbarian invasions, but that the Church promoted learning and science through its sponsorship of many universities which, under its leadership, grew rapidly in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church's "model theologian," not only argued that reason is in harmony with faith, he even recognized that reason can contribute to understanding revelation, and so encouraged intellectual development. [97]

The Church's priest-scientists, many of whom were Jesuits, were the leading lights in astronomy, genetics, geomagnetism, meteorology, seismology, and solar physics, becoming the "fathers" of these sciences. It is important to remark names of important churchmen such as the Augustinian abbot Gregor Mendel (pioneer in the study of genetics), Roger Bacon a Franciscan monk who was one of the early advocates of the scientific method, and Belgian priest Georges Lemaître (the first to propose the Big Bang theory).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church#Role_of_the_Church_in_civilization

May the Lord's peace be with you!

Answer 9

In many cases we already are without religion. Our schools did without religion and there is a school showing porn movies, and kids shooting each other.
Kids living with a direction to go in would be so much better for their future. People need moral foundations to live a happy and healthy life.

Answer 10

No! because people come to God through religion, and develop a relationship with Christ without religion. You come to Christ one on one, the same way you make friends. You visit, you talk, you share, you have things in common, you learn one another and then you love one another. It is this love of Christ and obedince to God that religion servers a purpose.