would the world be a better place without religion?

[crustyme]

• we wouldnt have muslims flying commercial airliners into high rise buildings.

• we wouldnt have christians shooting doctors.

• we wouldnt have catholic priests molesting underaged boys.

• we wouldnt have jews .

[RubberKettle]

Wow what a racist you are.

W/o faith we would not have this great nation.

[mrmarket]

Those religions have gone by the wayside now. Money is the new god.

[rsnnh12]

We would still have people killing people over other shit. Humans always have, and always will. Religion is just the excuse used fairly often now.

Another view- look at how many people who are religious oppose violence. Without religion (and their fear of God, Allah, whoever), they might be more likely to join in on the violence over territories, over power, whatever.

And no, I'm not religious at all

[EmpireMaker]

violence (as in wars, suicide bombings ... ) would be greatly reduced if there were no religon
however most people are sheep and there would likely be an upswing in dictatorships, cults, gangs etc as a result maybe new forms and reasons for violence would flourish. There is no simple answer to fix the world

[guitarjosh]

violence (as in wars, suicide bombings ... ) would be greatly reduced if there were no religon

We would just find something else to fight over.

[onetrickpony]

sure why not

[tunaguitar76]

sure, nowadays it probably would be. Now the last few thousand years are a little different.

[survive]

• we wouldnt have jews .

[str]

The world= Yes

People = No.

Many people feel the need to follow.

Damn shame.

[jarvol]

W/o faith we would not have this great nation.

Fail.

Without religion there would be much, much less hate, violence, genocide, bigotry, etc in the world. Most of the world's atrocities can be blamed/based on religion. A device invented to control the ignorant masses of man has spawned into a great killing machine.

[Full Time Hobo]

Religion was nothing more than a way for rulers to organize / keep control of their society.
If Belief in some deity / whatever didn't arise then something else would have taken its place.

[gafl]

If religion didn't exist, it would take away one of the flash points in the world. Unfortunately it's one of many.

[RubberKettle]

Fail. Without religion there would be much, much less hate, violence, genocide, bigotry, etc in the world. Most of the world's atrocities can be blamed/based on religion. A device invented to control the ignorant masses of man has spawned into a great killing machine.

Instead of disproving the point you go a tantrum about religious atrocities. America was founded on faith, pick up a book sometime chief.

[antifoil]

without religion people would realize how pathetic and immaterial there life actually is. they would learn life is nothing but pain and nothing would get done. with religion they get some satisfaction there is a greater purpose and life has meaning. so it is necessary for humankind to have something to hold on to. maybe it is a necessary evil.

[BWest]

Without religion we would have had fewer wars. Godlessness is the reason the Soviet Union lasted a puny 50 years.

[pronk]

Without religions- you betcha

Without God - we wouldn't even exist.

If you don't believe ask Bob Dylan for how much he sold his soul to the devil.

[nyjets15]

Ahhhh.....a good old discussion about religion

I'm an agnostic and can't see it any other way, and A thread in the saloon on SBR isn't gonna change the way I or anyone else thinks.

[Lincoln73]

religion keeps down the underclass, could you imagine the rioting if they knew there was no god and their crappy lives were for naught?

[COYLO]

Fail.

Without religion there would be much, much less hate, violence, genocide, bigotry, etc in the world. Most of the world's atrocities can be blamed/based on religion. A device invented to control the ignorant masses of man has spawned into a great killing machine.

for once i have to agree with jarvol