Is it normal that i want religion to disappear from our planet?

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Is it normal that I want all religions and "gods" to disappear from our planet?
I don't want to be offensive (though I probably am) but I just think it's medieval and we are better off without it in the year 2012.
It's so strange to me when people say they need religion or their "god" to have moral values..
Nobody would ever convert me nor would I convert others, but to think we need an imaginary higher power to be good sounds so ridiculous to me?
I've never been religious (I was taught about every major religion in school but I didn't take any of them serious), and I've never harmed anyone or even broken the law.
My parents, school, friends, society, etc taught me how to behave and what's right and wrong.
In a thousand years humans will laugh at the fact that a great portion of the human population actually believed in gods and some devoted their lives to it.
Is it normal that I think this way or am I being too offensive?

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    12 years ago

    Sounds normal to me.

    But humanity will always be divided over something. So long as one man has more than another, so long as the color of our skin, our accent, our language, our sex, gender or sexual preferences differ, we will always be divided. Even the supposedly superior, open-minded type atheists find reasons to bicker and feel bitterness towards eachother.

    Take religion away, and the evil will have to find something else to fill the void. Religion is not good. Good is good. Religion is not evil. Evil is evil. It is in man's nature to complicate and blame, when the blame rests squarely on our shoulders. We all ultimately have free will, and if we choose not to excersise it, then the blame should rest squarely on our shoulders, not on something inanimate like religion.

    It's fine to want religion to disappear, but I want people to start taking responsbility for their actions, period. Blame religion? Blame bad genes? Blame bad parenting? Blame economic disparity? No, blame them. Make them take responsibility for their actions. Only then will we see any "change".

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    • Ono
      12 years ago

      Nice answer. 10 point to Gryffindor!

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        12 years ago

        Giggity

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  • ToddStellar
    12 years ago

    you know what I wish would go away? (And here comes the rest of this community to hate on me) People that remain ignorant towards other peoples beliefs, so much so that they can't see the good it does in so many people's lives. Now, I am not religious in any way, very far from it, but one thing that I find so amazing about other peoples culture is their diversity in getting through each day. I appreciate the way the human mind has evolved in such a way that we are able to think for ouselves and detect individually what we personally believe what is right and what is wrong.
    What I can't stand is when people preach about being open minded, but then will shut down anyone that does not hold the exact set of moral beliefs as they do. I find it quite pathetic for people to put themselves above someone else based purely on a personal moral standpoint. Which is what you have stated above.
    Now, having said that, I believe that most of what we see in our day to day lives can be explained through simple science, but, believe it or not, the belief in a deity is not as outlandish as the media would like you to think.

    I apologize for any grammatical errors. I had to type this out in a hurry.

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    • Ono
      12 years ago

      Thumbed this back up because I think you're making a really important point.

      I'm not at all religious and there's times when I hate that aspects of my life are controlled by certain parts of the community who are religious mandating for everyone else the way everyone should live their lives. To counter that, I shouldn't be able to tell religious people how to live theirs.

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      • ToddStellar
        12 years ago

        Exactly. Thank you, glad to see that someone on this site got the point. I normaly dont post on this site unless it is the majority of what people think, otherwise, I just get hated on.
        It is what it is. =)

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  • purplegirl22
    12 years ago

    Don't worry you will get your wish in 100-500 years from now trust me. Everyone will be athiests like you.

    But just think by then this world will be a utopian society (if humanity still exists).

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  • GoldStar
    12 years ago

    I feel the exact same way. I'm glad someone else thinks the same about the topic as I do

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  • Seri
    12 years ago

    Religion is a wonderful thing because it can bind people together and give something to look forward to after there passing, but at the same time it is a hate cannon that drives though other religions, and other beliefs to the fact that some people would KILL others only based on there beliefs.

    Honestly, it does more bad than good.

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  • Saycheese
    12 years ago

    I'm not offended at all. I truely feel similar to you. I'm not religious at all but I choose to make good choices.

    I truely have been going to this religious Christian group get together thing that my roomie goes to, to have fun. But I just think to myself why do you have to believe in god to be a good person. They are really nice people though but still... I'm just the type that needs proof to believe in god and other religious beliefs.

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  • Avant-Garde
    12 years ago

    In regards to 2012, this year is supposed to be one of great change. They say that human consciousness will reach a higher universal level.

    I think it's normal that you feel this way. Maybe the world would learn to heal and get over our differences to find our similarities.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      12 years ago

      So they ARE legalizing pot...

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      • Avant-Garde
        12 years ago

        That would be nice:D

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      • Oasis808
        12 years ago

        lawl XD

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    It will be gone eventually, of course it will take a few hundred years or more for that to happen, but it will happen, you just wont be around to see it. Humanity may be gone in that time frame as well.

    Unless of course God comes down and performs some miracles.

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  • thinkingaboutit
    12 years ago

    Normal, sure.

    But lets be honest: school, family, friends, and society, are all influenced by religion. Haha especially society, hello: laws??.

    People who think that religion is suddenly going to go poof? No. It will not. Its all wishful conjecture. In my opinion, man almost has a DRIVE to believe in something more powerful. religious thought will certainly change but it will absolutely not disappear.

    this reminds me of the book Oryx and Crake by margret atwood. Crake, something like a mad-scientist, creates a new race of man modeled after his preferences. Because he doesn't believe in god, he destroys parts of their brain that's has anything to do with worship. Nontheless the new humans began questioning where they came from and poof they start believing in Crake, their god. Eh, it's only a novel but these things are relevant.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      12 years ago

      How so?
      You think we wouldn't have those laws if it wasn't for religion?
      You think people need the bible to be good?
      People already knew not to steal or murder before anything Christendom related happened.
      Ever heard of the Dark Ages? A very violent time in Europe that came AFTER Christianity.
      Ming China 1368-1644 was one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history.
      Without religion.
      There was Confucianism, but that's not religion, there is no "god" or greater being, it's a Chinese ethical and philosophical system.
      Most of the people in Japan and China today are not religious, yet Christianity was never really there and it's quite peaceful there.
      Laws are there because of humans, they are there even if there is no religion in the whole country.
      I can't name a lot more countries because many were colonized and converted to Christianity, and Islam conquered a large part as well (and yet many of those countries are very violent and unsafe).
      What does education have to do with religion?
      Lol if anything education does is make the person question religion itself, if anything we know is the most educated countries tend not to be religious at all.
      You could be right, the more we know about science, technology, the universe, the more we find out and discover, the more Christianity and its bible changes.
      Maybe that will just keep happening and people will keep following it blindly.
      But let's not ignore the statistics, in the countries where people are educated and free to abandon their religion (aka developened countries), the amount of believers have gone downhill.
      Europe is clearly far less religious than it used to be, people are actually thinking now.
      In the United States the amount of non-believers have gone up as well from 8% of the population in 1990 to 15% in 2008.

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      • Legion
        11 years ago

        Christianity isn't the only religion out there, oh and, there WAS a religion in china during the ming dynasty, Taoism. Taoism is the belief that one must keep in a state of balance, the universe is infinite, and that the jade emperor, with other deities, help guide the universe.

        the dark ages, it wasn't just the Christians. the christians, jews, and muslims were all locked in a war for jerusalem, but in the end the muslims won.

        Japan without a religion? Buddhism IS a religion! (Many deities) oh, and Shinto is also A RELIGION. And since 1949, china is communist, and under government control. the state may be officially Athiest, but Taoism and Buddhism are supported.

        Christianity and Islam aren't the only religions out there, Ever heard of Hinduism, Judiasm, Zoroastrinism, Santaria, and Voodoo, along with the religious system that was followed by the native Americans, The Norse System of the Vikings, and the many Polytheistic ideas of the ancient civilizations? There are and were others, but there are too many to list.

        Religion has been around since the earliest of days, at least since they stopped being slaves to instinct, and started wondering about the world.
        Do your homework before you start talking.

        also, there will always be a religion of sorts, until Science once and for all either proves or disproves that Some sort of God exists.(Even if the government tries to force athiesm on the world. )

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          Sorry for my late response, I haven't been on this site for a while.
          I never said Christianity is the only religion..
          Christianity happenened to be the major religion in Europe, and Europe happened to colonize great parts of the world (and Islam conquering other parts).
          That is why those two religions have the most adherents.

          The Dark Ages is actually the name of a period of time in Europe...
          Which began after the Roman empire fell (aka. sack of Rome), which was much earlier than the Crusades (now you do your homework, hypocrit:)

          Japan actually has a great portion of atheists, so does China.
          Not all Buddhists, Taoists or Shintoists believe in a "god".
          I've asked them, and you can look it up yourself why they do so.
          Some do it to be spiritual, or to honor their ancestors, or because it's their country's tradition or culture (mostly the last three).
          These words do not necessarily mean religion.

          I know Christianity and Islam aren't the only two religions out there sherlock, as I said before there's certain religions who make up for a very high percentage of the religious world population.

          Religion is here because humans didn't know better.
          So yes as science further disproves the claims in the Quran and the Bible and further discovers more flaws... the more religion will disappear.
          Even though it's hard to disprove some things in there that were made up.
          (Even if the government forces religion on the world, which we both know also existed/exists.)

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      • thinkingaboutit
        12 years ago

        (1)I don't think that laws wouldn't have been thought up without religion BUT religion has always been a factor. Throughout history, something wasn't just a crime against a person/people, it was a crime against a deity.

        2) I absolutely did not say anything about a bible, but then again we are not talking about Christianity are we? we are talking religion in general. In my opinion, religion evolves, it doesn't die.

        3) What does education have to do with religion? Not much? Well, for one, hundreds of thousands of volumes of historical literature were burned in the dark ages you speak of. Any lick of literature we have before, during, and after the fall of Rome is really due to fervent bookmaking, brought to you exclusively by the church. Math, science and technology, you may not know this, was a fundamental part of the early church. I digress, I don't care to defend Christianity, because we both know that eventually the church would grow into a tyrant (suppressing much of the knowledge it had previously promoted).

        And com'mon, you think that PEOPLE will suddenly stop believing in a god, afterlife, and divine retribution? Give me a break with the "educated people aren't believers" crap. Who cares about the US? You are of the first-world perspective, where religion doesn't have as much value anymore. Why would it? Are you starving? Do you have clothing on your back? Are you constantly seeing people around you die from disease? Is your woman being raped? Your son, has he been kidnapped? Your government, foul as any government may be, isn't killing it's own constituents. The fact that you aren't experiencing any of these things means that your very well off. Well off enough to not care about a god, whom most impoverished people pray will avenge them.

        Seriously, we could go on and on about this. Is it really worth it?

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