Could you live in a world without religion?

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Could you live in a world without religion?

  • YES

    Votes: 14 73.7%

  • NO

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • MAYBE

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Total voters
    19
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Now, i have my own opinion(s) about religions but, i wish not to start to fight or antagonize anyone.
I am however...asking a simple question; Could you live in a world without religion?.

sub question: wouldn't you rather want to live in a world where rationality, science, logic
you know, common sense would reign?

PS. i'm Orthodox by religion (not religious person thou)
Did go to church as a kid, relatively a lot. Participated
to numerous (different types) of church services* (and activities)
I had a very wise religion teacher as a kid, she taught me several things.

*is that the correct term
 
TheArt said:
Now, i have my own opinion(s) about religions but, i wish not to start to fight or antagonize anyone.
I am however...asking a simple question; Could you live in a world without religion?.

sub question: wouldn't you rather want to live in a world where rationality, science, logic
you know, common sense would reign?

PS. i'm Orthodox by religion (not religious person thou)
Did go to church as a kid, relatively a lot. Participated
to numerous (different types) of church services* (and activities)
I had a very wise religion teacher as a kid, she taught me several things.

*is that the correct term
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Religion (whether scoffed at or not)..is the foundation for most moral codes and principles of humanity. People focus only on the bad actions of select individuals, to judge Christianity harshly.

But the fact is= things like beastility even, wasn't condemned, until under the Old Testament commandments and laws

No lying, killing, stealing, adultery, etc also began there

So the World without those founding principles would have been what exactly? Without them now...would be what?
 
I'm a Christian but don't belong to any actual religion itself so I'm not religious at all. So for me living in a world with no religion would be fine for myself.
 
I consider my self an atheist but with a proviso. (I'm talking Christian here, so other faiths will just have to bear with me)

Things like divine intervention and miracles were recorded quite frequently right up until the death of Jesus and then they stopped, as if someone flicked a switch off.

I'm of the opinion, humans killed his 'Son' so after the resurrection, God packed his bags, gave up on this piece of clay, marking it down as a failed experiment and moved to the far side of the universe to start again with a new lump of clay and see if he/she has better luck this time.

We've been on our own ever since.

Ls x
 
I would be fine in a world without religion. I actually would prefer one . I would much rather society be governed by logic , science and rationality without the interference of man made nonsense because humans fear the finality of death. Everyone want to go to heaven but no body want to die.... Peter Tosh
 
There literally be no world then. Everyone worships something and that starts a religion. There have been many religions are many religions and will be many religions. There are people who are completely capable of having common sense while maintaining religion and there are those who go 100 percent for religion and disregard science.
 
SexyAsianBitch said:
There literally be no world then. Everyone worships something and that starts a religion. There have been many religions are many religiTh3y ons and will be many religions. There are people who are completely capable of having common sense while maintaining religion and there are those who go 100 percent for religion and disregard science.
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I have no faith in those that are religious. Those are the same people saying they will have Easter services despite the restrictions. They don't have common sense . They are perfectly ok with getting a deadly virus to prove their piety but don't care about the others they will infect who don't subscribe to their religious views
 
So broadly many thinkers/believers feel that the very meaning of "good" comes from "what God Approves". So many claims if the action is in approval is it good.

But is not the knowledge of right and wrong innate in us? It is the other way around - Religion gets its morality from the human. Humans when they got together in social groups, knew things like theft, murder, rape, perjury, etc cannot be allowed in societies.

This is that inner voice which stops us from taking the advantage. I rather believe in my Humane internal compass, than to do things which were written in a book.

There is goodness in everyone and so is also a dark side.

'We have to love our crooked neighbour with our crooked heart' - thus rather than a religious code, I wish more to have self-knowledge and grace. The world is fighting a lot of things right now, internal compass is important.
 
Religion, according to me, isn't evil at all. But religion has such a vast and crazy following that the people at the helm use this for their own gains. I'm very deeply religious and deeply spiritual but my religion is with my God and not with the people who run the so called religious institutions.
 
Lakeside said:
I consider my self an atheist but with a proviso. (I'm talking Christian here, so other faiths will just have to bear with me)

Things like divine intervention and miracles were recorded quite frequently right up until the death of Jesus and then they stopped, as if someone flicked a switch off.

I'm of the opinion, humans killed his 'Son' so after the resurrection, God packed his bags, gave up on this piece of clay, marking it down as a failed experiment and moved to the far side of the universe to start again with a new lump of clay and see if he/she has better luck this time.

We've been on our own ever since.

Ls x
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God's clock has stopped ticking for a long time. But it started again in 1948 when God's people (Jews) returned to Israël. And Israël officially was on the map again as a country.

God has never left, it is just very difficult to understand Him. The only way to understand God is through Jesus. In the Bible there are prophets who speak about everything that is happening today.

It is real, all of it. Just don't trust the Pope and the Vatican. Because there will soon be a time when there will be "peace" when almost the whole world will bow and praise the Anti-Christ, and we are going to be here.

I am not telling everybody what to do, but if you read the Bible and take time to watch youtube (were a lot can be learned) you will begin to see what is taking place at this very moment. Corona is not just a pandemic, it is being used for a New World order.
 
TBig88M said:
God's clock has stopped ticking for a long time. But it started again in 1948 when God's people (Jews) returned to Israël. And Israël officially was on the map again as a country.

God has never left, it is just very difficult to understand Him. The only way to understand God is through Jesus. In the Bible there are prophets who speak about everything that is happening today.

It is real, all of it. Just don't trust the Pope and the Vatican. Because there will soon be a time when there will be "peace" when almost the whole world will bow and praise the Anti-Christ, and we are going to be here.

I am not telling everybody what to do, but if you read the Bible and take time to watch youtube (were a lot can be learned) you will begin to see what is taking place at this very moment. Corona is not just a pandemic, it is being used for a New World order.
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The pandemic is Mother Nature's slap on the wrist to all mankind.

Stop raping my planet, or next time, I'll send something worse.

It's our 'wake-up call'. We have been warned.

Ls x
 
TBig88M said:
God's clock has stopped ticking for a long time. But it started again in 1948 when God's people (Jews) returned to Israël. And Israël officially was on the map again as a country.

God has never left, it is just very difficult to understand Him. The only way to understand God is through Jesus. In the Bible there are prophets who speak about everything that is happening today.

It is real, all of it. Just don't trust the Pope and the Vatican. Because there will soon be a time when there will be "peace" when almost the whole world will bow and praise the Anti-Christ, and we are going to be here.

I am not telling everybody what to do, but if you read the Bible and take time to watch youtube (were a lot can be learned) you will begin to see what is taking place at this very moment. Corona is not just a pandemic, it is being used for a New World order.
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Or maybe just maybe it's as simple as a virus that usually infects animals now can infect humans. Other viruses have done the same . H.I.V , hantavirus and measles to name a few . It's not unheard of . Although not common either.
 
Dcdevon said:
Or maybe just maybe it's as simple as a virus that usually infects animals now can infect humans. Other viruses have done the same . H.I.V , hantavirus and measles to name a few . It's not unheard of . Although not common either.
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I never said that it wasn't. ;)
 
TBig88M said:
I never said that it wasn't. ;)
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No but you did spout s craziness about a new world order and something about learning alot on YouTube which is well.. to each his own lol Its just a virus there is no new world order and 80 percent of YouTube is bullshit unless it's a video of a contractor telling you how to fix a door or something. Oh yeah I almost forgot. If Jews had to be returned to Israel that means they had to have left . So if they left is it really their land they are being returned to ? Or someone else's like the people who were living there at time. And if they are God's chosen people why were they forced to leave Israel ?
 
This is an impossible question to answer, since we don't know what the world without religion looks like or how modern society would work without the foundations of certain norms and morals stemming from religions.

I'm not suggesting that we need religion to recognize the good and the bad in human nature thereby necessitating the preachings to the masses and I would love to see religions go away. Too oftentimes religions were used to suppress progress, freedom of expression and other aspects of human nature required for healthy society evolution. There's so much human suffering, even today, as a direct result of religious beliefs.

One good thing resulted from Catholicism is mass literacy, so there's that. Even if religions are useless waste off time, energy and can encourage moral corruption when in the wrong hands, it's still a form of human expression.
 
I think religion is a great control mechanism for deviancy in society, so I would typically answer "no", keeping in mind this that all these potential deviants would let themselves lose if there wouldn't be the "fear of God". I don't mean to undermine the formal means of social control in any way, it's just that I feel some people are more governed and intimidated by their faith than the Rule of Law.

Then I think about all the wrong things that are happening in the world despite the presence of religion (some even in the name of religion), and that paints a really bleak picture tbh. So the cons kiiinda outweigh the pros.

However I do feel that allowing religion to exist is a no biggie. It's influence though, should be contained. Going with 'maybe'.
 
Well Most of you are from Christianity , So I will not go in that Part, But Hindu Scriptures has four parts.
1 Dharma (right Conduct)
2 Artha (Economics)
3 Kama (Pleasure)
4 Moksha (salvation)

For Society, religion can only contribute in above three points. But all these Points are cover in constitution.
We had a Law to Show, What is the right conduct.(Dharma)
We had a economical Institutions, School and Universities helping in that.(Artha)
Pleasure, Well, endless options are available again.(Kama)

So Religion can not help in above three points, Only thing in which religion can help is our own personal goals. so societal religion has to go and the more personal religion is needed, that can guide individual for his inner peace.
 
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