If there were no religious beliefs does anyone think that the world would progress a lot quicker? The Middle East for example would be infinitely better without religion. Yes of course wars could happen anyway without religion but religion seems to be a dividing factor in most wars whether religiously motivated or not. Will we ever do away with it, it is 2007 after all?
2007-06-07 07:39:20 · 16 answers · asked by Prophet Of Truth 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion is and always has been a blight on Humanity. If we do not get rid of it it will be our destruction. Until people learn to think for themselves we never will.
2007-06-07 07:43:00 · answer #1 · answered by hedgewitch18 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes i do believe it is impeding progress. However i am not sure humanity as a whole would be very accepting. Religion, though flawed and divisive can also be a very positive force in the world. The death of religion can only be made once the world has reached a higher level of education and reason. Religion flourishes in the poor and depraved areas of society and the world. It gives people hope when there is very little. I hope one day we can do away with religion but i don't think the world is ready for it
2007-06-07 07:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by dougness86 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make a complete presumption about the Middle East, noone knows for sure what would happen if you took religion out of the equation after all a lot of them are Islamic states, governments based on religion. If you wouldn't have that common bond of religion who's to say it wouldn't contribute to instability, civil wars, etc? People would just find another way to disperse and form groups, it's human nature, wanting to be part of an exclusive group that works to exclude other people.
2007-06-07 07:44:13 · answer #3 · answered by jay k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I take materialistic non-religious belief to be the present impediment. The problem is that rational approaches to the absolute are lacking (e.g. no one is a buddhist) This means the only thing left to fill the void after a materialist gains insight into the emptiness of scientific progress are the more widespread primitive religions. It's better that than nothing.
2007-06-07 07:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by supastremph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I think stem cell research is a great example of this. While the research itself is not banned, it does not receive any federal funding. We are supposed to have a secular government but this is one way that religion is slowing our progress. I find it so ironic that they argue that stem cell research is an infringement on the value of life. If they value life so much, why discard of something that can save the life of an already existing person?
2007-06-07 07:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by RcknRllr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, man"kind" is impeding progress. Man has tried to solve his own problems for thousands of years. All he has done is to better facilitate blood thirsty crime, rape, murder, perversion, greed, and bigger better weapons to annihilate himself. Men are inherently evil. Have you ever noticed how babies act. They have no morals and there is no right or wrong...only what THEY want. This is the problem with man. Without the truth men are just self worshiping, over grown, gaming, child molesting, murderous, bigger, stronger, smarter(yet fools), BABIES. And no religion is not why people fight wars.....MONEY is the reason men hate their brothers and sisters. Religion is an excuse. We are just reaping what we've sown. 'Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' If only they would listen.
2007-06-07 07:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by F'sho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's tough to decide what "progress" is. If "progress" meant something like reducing suffering, I'd say it's a definite impedement.
2007-06-07 07:45:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-07 21:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Humans will always fight over something. Much of the violence in the middle east is more over inter tribal fighting and ethnic strife. Religion actually has very little to do with it IMHO.
2007-06-07 07:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by nom de paix 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Its been holding science down since the dawn of time.
2007-06-07 07:47:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world seems to be pregressing just fine... I think without religion things would be a lot worse.
2007-06-07 07:43:54 · answer #11 · answered by Sarah R 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋