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

[novasonic]

NanakiXI said:

novasonic said:

There would have only been like 1/5th the wars, and a lot less sickness and death... Less raceism.. less everything bad. Religions are outdated concepts that work great in small anchient communities, but cause hatered and war on a large scale.

I would say 1/5 is a bit of an overkill. Religion is the best example of good and evil being both in the same.

There has been alot of good and alot of bad to come from religion. But to foolishly say Religion is 80% bad would just be a sad pathetic and ignorant thing to say.

How about drugs and alcohol? Does that make up completly for the rest of that 20%? Did religion create these as well?

I didn't say 80% of bad stuff in the world came from religion, I said 80% of wars are caused by or have some connection to religion. Which I don't think is too far from the truth. What good came from religions exactly? Besides life lessons and values that are for the most part common sence. Is convincing people to pour money into a false orginization a good thing?.. nope.. Maybe giving weak hopeless people something to believe in. I guess that's good. But they didn't have to bring down everyone else. If you can't tell whats right from wrong without being threatened with an afterlife of hell, then I think you have some other bigger problems.