If religion really made a person better, and the world a better place,would you agree with it. I mean, if it includes god and stuffs and all that.
I know currently it doesn't but what if?
2007-12-07 06:16:56 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lol. I'm atheist too.I was just wondering. IFFFFFFFF. i'll probably accept it but i wouldn't believe in it either.But heck if it makes the world better, i have nothing against it.
2007-12-07 06:21:09 · update #1
When i mean agree with it i dont mean to accept it. But i mean, would you be as against it? Would you be okay with a lie that people believe in, as long as it makes them better?
2007-12-07 06:24:08 · update #2
That's an excellent question, and my short answer is -- it depends.
There are many ways to get a child to finish their homework, threaten them with violence, tell them Santa won't give them gifts, etc... But I'd most prefer that they understand the purpose of homework and have a desire to complete it.
That said, if the only thing keeping you (in the general sense) from stealing my car is your false beliefs, I don't mind them.
2007-12-07 06:22:40 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I happened to think that a moral philosophy whether it has it's origins in the secular or the religious can improve the quality of the world. I try to follow many of the teachings of J.C. even though I am an atheist. In actuality I think that would make a much better world if people followed the philosophy and quit killing for Jesus, or Allah, or whoever. If there is no God, then no one needs to be "right". Simply live your life in a humanistic fashion and let death and eternity sort itself out.
2007-12-07 14:22:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
By definition, religion requires adherents to believe in a lie and then follow rules set down by man claiming to be from a higher authority. So I see no way that religion could possibly make a person better or the world a better place.
2007-12-07 14:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I suppose on those terms it would have to be considered the same way we think of certain therapies, or medications. For example, it's probably not a good idea to allow over-the-counter sales of morphine. On the other hand, there are medical conditions where morphine is just the thing.
It is possible that there are pathologies that respond well to religious immersion. In those cases the inanity of the dogmatic content is as irrelevant as the flavor of the morphine formulation.
2007-12-07 14:29:11 · answer #4 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by "agree with it." I would be able to believe in it only if it made sense in light of the things I see in the world.
But I'll support anything that makes someone a better person, even if it doesn't make logical sense to me. I'm pragmatic that way.
2007-12-07 14:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm a deist, BUT if you do not believe something exists, you could accept that the BELIEF in something non-existant might make the world a better place, but not that the non-existant thing itself has an effect.
2007-12-07 14:28:50 · answer #6 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If iit actually made the world better, I would promote it even if I realized it was a lie. The point is, it's a lie, and it makes the world worse rather than better.
2007-12-07 14:20:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would agree with it if it were true
Religion does not make a person better and is largely the root of all problems in the world
Hence why I don't
2007-12-07 14:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by Go Blue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How can one have a better world that is less based on truth? Maybe the best of all worlds is the Matrix?
2007-12-07 15:23:33 · answer #9 · answered by chem sickle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
I'd be glad the world was a better place, but I still wouldn't believe god(s) exist. No evidence.
2007-12-07 14:21:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋