Where would the world be right now if religion never existed?

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Kynes said:

Some very nasty things have been made in the name of religions, but I think they are mostly good for the peace and development of human rights. I really believe religions make people want to be better, so when you use big numbers, they make the world a better place. Even if you're an atheist, you are influenced by the predominant religion of your country, and most of them make you try, with their limitations, to be a better person.


I can't imagine a world without religion, because it's in our human core to try to explain things we can't understand with some type of higher being, some type of God. If there wouldn't be any religious sentiment, I think the world would be nastier, harder for everyone, because feeling bad when you do something against your believes help our society to be more peaceful, more respectful with the other ones.

First paragraph: If it were up to the religion in my country I'd be a very hateful person. I've generally noticed that a person's desire to be good is more connected to said person's personality, rather than any religious teaching.If you don't have empathy, no religious teaching will make you a better person.

Second paragraph: People generally feel bad when they go against their own beliefs (are you suggesting that non-religious people don't have values, or that their values are not correct?). What matters really is what your beliefs are. Religion teaches lots of nasty things. A Christian may feel bad if they don't disown his/her homosexual son or if they don't force him to go through the traumatic experience of conversion therapy. Most of the good things that the christian religion teaches are actually ethic principles created by greek philosophers. People certainly don't need religion to be good. All they have to do is relise that for society to fucntion properly, it's necessary for them to respect certain rules (else no one should complain that they live in a disfunctional society).