A world without god

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if religious beliefs and systems were to cease what would happen?

  • the world would be unchanged
  • the changes would be subtle and barely knoticable
  • their would be a knoticable change, but it would not be harmful
  • their would be uncomfortable changes, but in the end it would make no real diffrince
  • their would be some uncomfortable change but we would be better for it
  • the changes would harmful to the world around us
  • their would be great changes and we would be greatly improved by it
  • their would be terrible changes and we would greatly suffer from it
  • their would be a great deal of changes, but regardless things would be as theyu are now
  • their would be a result other than those mentioned here
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If religion were to disappear today, I would be no less for it, if every church and temple were to fall and each structured belief were destroyed, I would simply move on, as would the rest of mankind, The changes would be somewhat uncomfortable, even painfull concidering how many people do not think for themselves, but in time they would find their own path and the world would move on.

If the world were to imbrace one Belief the future would be like the past and nothing would change, people would persue what they feel as right, and fight over pointless Ideals, countless deaths and continued arrogance would still remain, even under the concept of unified belief because their would still be tyrants and rebals. so the world would not change.

If the world were to discard the Ideas behind religion, there would be a shift to apithy and self sentered perspectives, but over time people would still learn to help one another, simply because it makes sense to do so. Again the world would not change.

No matter the choice of belief, it has very little effect on the world, since it is the nature of our humainty that leads us to our conclusions, not the nature of our beliefs.

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These are the claims of someone who has yet to learn about the social veracity of belief.

Destroying the belief(s) of the mass(es) would end catastrophically. Period.

For the deist, the theist, the spiritualist, the agnostic, the atheist, it is all the same.

Without belief, or “faith”, in something, all of our constructed representations of actuality become null and void, by proxy, so does humanity.

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For one we are discussing something that will probably never happen, so it’s hard to say. It’s been shown that a system crumbles without a religion or an overly strict government, or both.

I believe if billions of people stop believing theres a hope greater than this life, and that we’re all chance, not mattering to anything infinitely. I think more murder and other crimes will break out. If people really feared their afterlife, they would not commit these crimes, if people really were sincere and believed in their religion, good would come from a good religion. Although most religions aren’t bad, they’re good. Some are used for violence, but that doesn’t make the religion bad as I’ve said many times before.

People want hope. It’s not weird at all to see someone in a religion who does good things out of belief for that religion. For we all want to make ourselves and others happy, if we were in a religion that didn’t believe that, there would be less in that religion.

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I agree with Mastriani. How can we make any sort of claim for absolute moral truth without some sort of belief in a higher power? Personally I’m an agnostic, so I can see where you’re coming from onlyashuman, but the more I think about it, the more I think that it is not enough to simply rely on human reason for arriving at truth. Ultimately it’s all just rhetoric if there is nothing greater than people and this world.

People in general, I think understand this on some level, and thus organized religion is born. I’m not a huge fan of churches and such, and I do think that being told what to believe isn’t necessarily the best thing, but I don’t think that people would just ‘move on’ from the destruction of those ideals (truth, justice, love, etc) which are most sacred.

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It would very much depend on how they “cease”. Through war? I don’t think you can ever make people forget their beliefs if taken by force, or even if given up with consent.

But hypothetically if we all had nothing to believe in since the beginning of time… I think the results would be much improved, as there would be less restrictions of science (Not asking why, just saying God did it.) and friction between peoples. (The Crusades, anyone?)

But I think Religion would always be inevitable. No one can help but wonder what lies beyond when you die.