What if there were NO Religion

[Imagist]

I think the whole question is kind of silly. What if Columbus hadn't stumbled across the Americas? What if the south had won the civil war? What if Jesus was really an alien?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Pastwatch as much as anyone else, but there at least was a story to make that hypothetical interesting. Here the hypothetical is being presented as a serious issue when in reality it has no, and very likely never will have any, relation to the real world. And looking back over the thread, some people's tempers have flared? Really?

I don't mean this as a criticism of the OP or all the people who have posted on this thread. Hypotheticals can be fun, but really not much more than that. Some of you need to take yourselves and your religions a little less seriously. Religion is here, and it probably always will be. So lighten up a little bit, will ya?

 

[Fatihah]

No Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism etc etc.

What would the world and society look like? What would we turn our attention to?

Science maybe? Would we focus more on the important things like work and family?

Thoughts please.

Response: If there was no religion, the world would be in extreme turmoil. No one knows our nature and can guide us better than the one who created us. Without the creator's supreme knowledge and guidance, we would live in a world of chaos with far more people following their own desires and lust and having no consideration for others. Humankind needs guidance, therefore a religion is necessary.

 

[England my lionheart]

No Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism etc etc.

What would the world and society look like? What would we turn our attention to?

Science maybe? Would we focus more on the important things like work and family?

Thoughts please.

Whoopee,if only it were true,perhaps we would pay some urgent attention to what we are doing to this Planet and do something about it.

 

[Storm]

Really, so you think that if all the guns dissapeared, in this day and age, they would stab people instead? Holding up a bank or store with a knife, going to war with swords again.

I'd bet you a dollar than the murder rate would drastically decline if guns ceased to exist.

Google "knife crime uk."

Knife Crime Facts

Number jailed for knife crime up 23%

Stab vests in UK schools as teen crime surges

As anyone with even a glancing familiarity with history would know, humans kill each other regardless of the availability of guns. We're rather ingenious about it.

 

[tumbleweed41]

No Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism etc etc.

What would the world and society look like? What would we turn our attention to?

Science maybe? Would we focus more on the important things like work and family?

Thoughts please.

Imagine....

:camp:

 

[Father Heathen]

Response: If there was no religion, the world would be in extreme turmoil.

Then why do secular societies tend to be far more stable, advanced and prosperous than very religious ones?

Humankind needs guidance, therefore a religion is necessary.

Of course, but that guidance should be logic and reason, not invisible cartoon characters in the sky. I wonder by how many centuries progress would be set back if Islam ruled the world. It would be dark days indeed.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Response: If there was no religion, the world would be in extreme turmoil. No one knows our nature and can guide us better than the one who created us. Without the creator's supreme knowledge and guidance, we would live in a world of chaos with far more people following their own desires and lust and having no consideration for others. Humankind needs guidance, therefore a religion is necessary.

I don't need religion to know right from wrong, but I sure am glad that it exists for others who can't figure it out for themselves. It's scary to think that, without religion, they'd be capable of anything.

 

[OmarKhayyam]

Are you not aware that the only thing preventing you from becoming Hannibal Lecter is the belief in God?

Uh, the Christian god of course. Not so sure about all those others.

 

[Imagist]

Are you not aware that the only thing preventing you from becoming Hannibal Lecter is the belief in God?

Uh, the Christian god of course. Not so sure about all those others.

For a brief second I thought you were serious.