Without Religion.

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yeah. saw that Richard Dawkins guy, he puts up a pretty good argument for it. doubt its ever gonna happen though, it's faith, u can't just make it go away

People would find something else to discriminate, segragate, and stereoype by.

Many people find relgion comforting, many elderly and lonely people and it is a good help to them. I think we are right to have religion, its how you follow it is the question. No one has to follow it if they dont want, you have a choice and you also have a choice on how to live your life. If people want to worship god, let them do it as long as they are not hurting others.

religion's for fag enablers

I don't find it comforting, I find it annoying. Plus I agree with the original poster.

youre damn right the world would be better without religion.more people have been killed in the name of religion down thru the ages then for any other reason.look at all the religions today causing trouble---muslims,christians,catholics,protestants,jew,
etc.even in our own country some fuckup like Bush can use his religion as an excuse to invade and kill other people.

how does a religion question turn into something political??

why don't you better educate yourself before you go bad mouthing presidents--george bush ain't the only fuck up in history

you know what: those sons-of-bitches came into our country and killed thousands of people and you think america should just sit back and take it

you think we should just act as cowards

HELL NO

I agree the war has been going on too long but he's our president and I support him

so fuck off

like i said everyone has a choice and their own point of view on this, whatever is best for you, you are free to choose

yep

If there was no Great White Rodent to worship, life would NOT be better. The Great White Rodent's followers benefit in numerous ways by following the lord, our Rodent.

please enlighten me on the "Great White rodent"

"you know what: those sons-of-b**ches came into our country and killed thousands of people and you think america should just sit back and take it

you think we should just act as cowards"

If that is a valid justification, why is it that IRAQ was targeted mainly, and not afghanastan? revenge anyone?

no bc if we invaded afghanastan first, it would've given iraq an oppurtunity to attack us

which they would

The laws all over he world generally center around a religion. If there is no belief in a higher over the world would really be screwed. But, then you look at these idiots that we have that call them selves Muslims and you would wonder anyway. More Wars have been started because of religion than any other reason.

I think world would be better without religions because see most wars started because of religions.

Religion is a very touchy subject in my book.The world we all live in is a very large and diverse place.The majority of the cultures feel the need to have spiritual beliefs of some sort.It is also up to the individual to choose whats best for them.Personally,I never judge anyone for their beliefs.That is up to them and their higher power,whatever it may be.People who have no beliefs are also justified in feeling that way.It is 100% up to them.As for wars being caused by religion,yes many have been.Also a lot are still going on.I just hope that someday everyone would respect everone elses feelings.It may sound like a dream but at least its not a nightmare.

Just 1 more thing.There is Christianity and Radical Christianity.There is Islam and Radical Islam.Many forms of Buddhism,Hinduism,Judiasim,Pagenism.If you can think it up,believe me its out there somewhere.Think about the crusades, the inquisition, the witch hunts,The army of god,The Christian and Islamic Martyrs.The list goes on and on.Jonestown, Branch Davidians,UFO Hale Bopp Comet cults.Tension will always exist,we just need to learn to live with each other.

Religion sucks. NEVER, EVER be religious.

Personally i'm not religious, but in a way i think it's a good thing, i mean it gives some people morals, but then it makes some people complete dicks.

So much shit is kicked around in the press when a couple of shitty american college kids die in virginia college shoot out, who gives a flying fuck!!!! more than that many people die a day in iraq, so fuck america, and quite frankly id like to see how americans acted with the war taken over to america on their soil, go suck your presidents cock those of you who support him cuz its about as close as him actually giving anything back to the state as you'll get. Twats

I think the world would be a bit better.

I am 14 and im a self-proclaimed atheist.
I mean c'mon, search on the web for " why hasn't God answered my prayer" You'll probably get some sh@t about how he answers in "Yes" "NO" and "Maybe"

That is just a major contradiction to EVERYTHING.
If thats all it is, then i could make a jug of milk my god, make a bible calling the jug infavinable, pray to it to have nothing happen, search online, "Why hasn't my god answered me?"

And i'll get the same crap.
That doesn't prove god is fake, it just means, ANYTHING can be damn God if you believe.
And i hate that. I hate the crusades, the Martyrs, the Inquisition, all of them.

Its a burning passion that flare until i am proven wrong.
(Or intil i am inevitably destroyed by oprah)

I fucking love you....

Religion was inevitable and very helpful early in humanitys history. It gave people rules to follow before people understood how to explain the WHY behind the rules. The smarter people in the society knew that pork sometimes made people sick, so they just told everyone "God says don't eat pork". They didn't know why pork was bad, but they knew it would help people for them to think this was a very important rule. The same thing applies for every other helpful rule that came from religion. It was a useful way to control people without having to explain yourself. There isn't much left for religion. Almost everything has been explained that religion previously addressed. There is still benefits from it, but as with everything it also has negatives. As the number of benefits drop, the negatives become more annoying and eventually there won't be any reason to keep it around. It won't be pretty, and it may take a long time, but religion will cease to exist. Look at countries like Japan. In most areas of Japan, if you say that you believe in God, people look at you as if you just said you believe in the Tooth Fairy. And they've got almost no crime... Norway is the most atheist country on the planet and the UN just ranked it as the happiest place on earth to live.

it would be a lot more peaceful, and it would be ultimately more peaceful if cultures and race went back to where they came from *cough* MUSLIM'S*

Ripping flesh and brains I come at night

I am created by all that is evil

Satanic lust humans must die

Feasting on flesh and the blood of others

I will slay you then go for another

Rip out her eyes I reach for her soul

I fuck her dead and tear out her hole



Mutilation killing to live

You are my victim on flesh I feed

10,000 corpses in my path

And I will get the blood I need



A thousand bodies blood flowing fast

Half your face rotting away

Infectious disease decayed to the bone

Rigor mortis sets in I eat as I lay



Nuns in the church find one kneeling

Look at the cross with God she is dealing

I will kill her her holy lie

Right in front of God this nun must die

I approach her now where do I start

Fucked on the altar I rip her apart

I eat her brains now she's dead

I fuck her again and smash her head

without religion, people have no fear of punishment for what they do in their lives. I personally think religions are made up to stop war and shit and I'm not religious, but if I had to pick a religion I'd go with Wicca because it requires nothing. I love being lazy.

Religion starts wars and murder though.

I lost my religion years ago and I dont go round murdering people.

The wars, over religion, are not necessary and the murders definitely aren't.

Catholic school for 12 years taught me I have faith but no religion. Religion is just a business. I don't believe God to be this man figure, I believe "God" is all inside of us, and I use prayer as an outlet of self-realization. I love talking about this shit when I'm drunk or getting to know people better. It's amazing how many people these days feel the same way about my beliefs...

TrueWord just wrote some good shit. Religion is for the past.

i don't follow a religion since your age :) , i have my faith , not biased on religion. church is much more about socializt

but the world would be the same without any religion, the humankind will find another thing to fight about.

there's one only hope for humanity - education.

There would be no doubt LESS wars. Less hate and discrimination against one another. Less tensions between people of different religions, ect..but people would still find conflict in other ways...there would be less of it no doubt. No Protestant/Catholic wars of religion, Israel/Palestine conflict, No Yugoslav Wars, No Jihad, No Iraq, and so on and so forth..we could go all day..but who are we kidding?

Religion was created to tell us how we were created, but now that we have a more logical and have evidence to back it up why do our species believe in something that has no proof? a quote from Adolf Hitler could actually help answer that "What luck for rulers that men do not think" that was actually talking about ruling them but the principle is the same, we do not think, we get god drilled into us when we are babies so we don't question it as much as we should.

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator" - Adolf Hitler (Im on a Hitler quote sight right now so I'm gunna use a few) this shows that wars are started and justified by saying that it is what god wants.

%u201CMake the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it%u201D - Adolf Hitler, this one works very well actually. If you tell someone that god(s) created us all from birth for as long as it takes and they will believe it. Simple idea but very large, God creating all of us, a creator is very simple to think of.

Well that does it for the Hitler quotes.

For those of you that has heard the paradox of god that I stated several times on other stories(wildchild did tell me the paradox btw, gotta give him the credit) and decided to change the definition of god to get around the paradox then think of this, if god did not want someone to die why would he allow it? he can change the future without ever letting man know it was him so if he knows that someone dying is a bad thing then he can stop it easily, if he did want them to die then it is OK because it is god have to do wat he wants, so with that logic all the murders in all the wars and just random psychos killing others were just fulfilling gods will, which is a god thing right? which means we should not mourn the dead we should celebrate that they are finally dead and that god hated them so they deserved to die, plus if you ever kill anyone its gods will. See the major flaw there? BTW the way to get around that one and that is god doesn't give a fuck about us and just sits back and relaxes while we slaughter each other in many gruesome ways. Do either of those possibilities sound like someone you should worship?

if u culdnt make sense of that then sorry, im tired I cant even keep my thoughts straight and I cant be bothered to read it again to see if it makes sense or not

i only believe in christianity becouse it is the only thing that is true and when the day of reckonning comes i will pray that you have came to believe in jesus christ my savoir no not just my savior but everyones savior and if i can ask of you but one thing on this sunday morning go to a baptist church and i will pray that you will be enlightened by our Lord

Jesus Christ

watch episode "Go God Go" is episode 1012 of souhpark,

even if there would be no religion the human race will find a way to kill each other.

and all this blind scientist and religious thinking they know somethings ... prepotence!

i think if there wasnt religeon most people wouldnt know what to do with themselves.

They would feel lost.

People like the comfort of knowing theres someone watching over them, someone they can prey too and ask for help when things get tough.

Im not sure but that whole middle east bussiness would have never happened any of it the crusades isreall iraq plus norther ireland, indonesia, the 2008 election, alot of stupid shit wouldnt have happend actually i think it would be paradise

I agree the world might be better without religion (I'm around the same age), or if we could all agree on One religion, but then again i have no religion, and i am currently running on about 10 hours of sleep (well, jeesh, that sounds good!).....over the course of about a week or a bit more, so i honestly have started to lose grip on common logic and stuff, i just want to sleep!

People would have to depend on themselves instead of some other being.

Religion is what is really running the world. Churches take in billions of dollars yearly. They preach fairy tales to people for their money. The world would be a better place without it but it would be a poorer one...lol

I think it would probably be better, actually.

I think we would be way better w/o religion. Read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Pretty good book.

Yes. I think if we could just somehow forget religion. And instead teach science as a religion, or something in that ballpark (NOT SCIENTOLOGY). We will have overcome one of the most putrid and dividing things we have ever made. I believe that alone would bring the human race closer. It would signal a huge awakening of consciousness. There is so much more mystery to the world than what science can explain, it would be great to see 6-9 Billion people working together in unison to forward science. Have you ever noticed that religion has never solved a problem, whereas Science is the reason we are talking to each other right now?!

I'm an atheist, as I find it impossible to believe that someone called "God" would control the whole universe, or even create it.

I'm not saying that I would hate religions - I don't hate them, just don't believe anything about them. Why should I? They don't make any sense.

A world without religion would be pretty much the same as it is now. People will just find another reason to hate, kill, take, discriminate, etc. I suppose we might be a bit better off without religious extremists? But religion itself is neither a good thing or a bad thing. It depends on how an individual takes it.

Islamic extremists like slaughtering "infidels". Buddhists follow a code of peace. Religion can be a powerful factor in ones' morals (and even temperament). It's good if you use religion as a purpose to keep living or a way to release sadness and negative emotions but going so far as to kill others because they don't believe in what you believe is ridiculous.

ok, no a world without religion will be horrific, it all some people believe in. you have herd this sh*t from someone else and have chosen to believe it. Its not Religion that causes conflict its people. I am an agonist but i still believe that god helps some who choose.

If religion wasn't there, they would just fight for something else its a factor not a cause

Sometimes religion has prevented people from staring wars. It helps to keep people from having wanton sex all day and to keep people feed and sheltered. Some religions are innocous, some like some fundies can be dangerous. Some EU nations reguate them because of this.

I have pretty mixed feelings on this topic. Mankind has a spiritual side, a superstitious side and a manipulative predatory side that is capable of great evil and injustice. I'm sure whether religion is an excuse for the latter, or an enabler.

become a muslim :)