Do you believe in god, if not do you believe in something else?

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Kasz216 said:

Also... would the world really be better off if Religion never existed?

You can argue that it's "outlived it's usefullness". From an atheists view i can see that.

However i can't see how an atheist could argue religion never had a use.

Religion for a long time was the main driving force behind science... and has times saved science from being lost. (For example stuff saved from the fall of Rome.  Even more would of been lost without religion.)

It's only fairly recently that science has come into "conflcit" with religion.

 

Science existed well before any overbearing religion came to be. Archimedes found a way to calculate the volume of a sphere, and that requires limit. He was very close to discovering Calculus centuries before Newton was even born. Yes, religion saved some knowledge from the fall of Rome, but it's not like Rome was the last bastion of knwledge, Byzantium still existed well after the fall of Rome. Whatever little knowledge was saved does not redeem how much science was surpressed during the Medieval Ages.