What would the world be like without religion?
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02 Jun 2012 6:08PM
calmer, more scientific, generally better in every way, except perhaps art (lets fact it, most old churches are masterpeieces of art and arhitecture)
and for the guy talking about the 'parasitic leaching monarcy' you really don't know your stats do you? the monarchy bring in WAY more money than they cost.
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03 Jun 2012 1:33AM
No they don't. I have seen the youtube video talking about this and the person who made it clearly overlooked one major thing: People aren't going to stop going to see the castles just because there is no more monarchy. Its not like you ever see the queen or any of the royals anyway. Yet MILLIONS of people still go to see the old castles that the royals NEVER EVEN GO TO. This wouldn't just all of a sudden stop. Theres no royal family in ireland or france and people still go to see those castles. So saying they bring in more money then they cost is just an outright lie.
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03 Jun 2012 9:20AM
thanks I couldnt have said it better myself! monarch parasites
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03 Jun 2012 8:45PM
Yes people go to see hitorical landmarks because of thier history
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03 Jun 2012 8:52PM
The only reason I go to church is for the free wine and chips.
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03 Jun 2012 1:55AM
The only reason the churches have all that great art is because they had all the money. Somaybe people or governments would still have paid for it.. IDK
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03 Jun 2012 2:01AM
I'm pretty sure the world would be massively overpopulated. Europe especially. So we could be all starving or waring over food and living space. It's one of those things I think about when I think of war and how we're actually lucky in some twisted ways to had had them all.
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03 Jun 2012 3:10AM
Except we would be far more advanced then we are now. The amount of poverty in the world would be much lower, or even none existent. History has shown that when people become more well to do they start having less children. Kind of stupid for it to happen that way, but it does.
You have heard of the Dark Ages have you not? Its the time in european history when the catholic church ruled europe with an iron fist and outlawed any and all scientific advancement that contradicted their bullshit fairy tales. Scientific progress was held back for nearly a 1000 years.
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02 Jun 2012 6:15PM
i'd say safer as most wars a started over religon
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03 Jun 2012 3:25AM
George Carlin: Religion is bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
Wisdom overcomes all ignorance if people learn it. Educate yourself, TYT and RT america on youtube.
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03 Jun 2012 1:20PM
Perhaps better, but I suspect that if they hadn't come up with religion to fight over, they would have come up with something else.
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03 Jun 2012 5:41PM
Religion and science both originate from the intent to explain the world.
Let's compare 'em and find out the differences. Who wants to start?
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03 Jun 2012 6:41PM
OK, I'll start:
Religion is a farce becomes it tries to reduce the universe to the plaything of a deity who stands inexplicably apart from it.
Science is a farce becomes it tries to reduce the universe to a machine.
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03 Jun 2012 6:58PM
Religion originally was created as a way to understand the world (that was thousands of years before Christ) but gradually got used as a weapon or tool so to speak, to enable power hungry ass-holes to get what they want. Religion saved humanity from barbaric self extermination in the �dark ages� by introducing the fear of god into people. But the religion dose is gradually wearing off, and most people don�t have that �fear of god syndrome� like they used to, now we can �sin� as much as we want and not worry about the consequences.
I�m not preaching, I don�t believe in organized religion, just trying to see it in a logical way.
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03 Jun 2012 9:33PM
The "understanding the world" function is certainly a major one. But in the world of small groups of humans that religion emerged in, it also served as a major factor in group identity. It still plays a large role is distinguishing us from them.
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05 Jun 2012 5:15AM
You have that completely wrong there bud. Religion CAUSED the dark ages. Why do you think it was called the dark ages in the first place? Because the catholic church ruled by fear. As soon as they took over in the 4th century they started burning books. Anything that disagreed with them. They are the ones that INVENTED "the devil is out to get you" and all the other bullshit. They made sure the people were ignorant so they would be kept compliant.
Its no coincidence that many of the european countries that have the highest rates of athiesm also have the highest standards of living in the world.
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05 Jun 2012 5:49AM
...I'm super stoned so I'll take a crack at this.
Without religion we'd all be apes probably. For whatever reason ancient people all over earth built places of worship as their first things to build. Maybe as we were going from apes to extremely dumb humans a belief in 'God' came around, knowing that something made everything. Then we sang it songs, made offerings to it and stuff, built it things...
"Spirituality" like what the Natives of North America and others like them believed in is ok, but "organized religions" usually turn into brutal things that control a lot of people. Like the Maya and the people before them or whatever, they were brutal. Same thing with Christianity or Islam, they're all brutal.
There's only one thing I know for sure, and that's that I'm stoned.
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06 Jun 2012 5:29PM
religion was'nt an attempt to explain things in the world at all. it comes about in contrast to what our eyes and senses told us everyday- that the sun came up in the sky and falls away,that stars came out at night,that living creatures reproduce, are born, live, die and the bodies rot away...
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06 Jun 2012 5:36PM
I always looked at religion being based on giving people hope to see their loved ones again after death. Then as the rulers of the world caught wind they structured it into rules or laws if you will, to give hope to the people serving them. Slaves will work harder if they think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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07 Jun 2012 2:11PM
What would religion be like without the world?
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25 Jun 2012 2:29PM
I think the only difference is places like the middle east and the people there would have to just tell the truth, "Yeah, there is little to no food and water, so we're taking yours and or your land because we're hungry, get out or die."
But if OP is talking more along the sexual perversion side, some asshole hundreds of years ago who's not getting any, would come up with some other bullshit reason for why you shouldn't have more then one sexual partner or something else for your dirty dirty wants and needs.
Instead of it being a religious thing, they would just change it to a health thing.
