| kodeindahjunk said: You are not thinking rationally here. Religions exist because there are questions we will never know the answers. How did time and space start? Did time and space have a beginning? Or does time and space have no beginning and no end? Do parallel universes exist? etc.. There are only theories to answer these questions. and the one question that creates religions: What is going to happen after we die? Now, have you ever asked yourself that last question? What is going to happen to me when i die? I have no doubt that anyone with a conscious mind have asked and will ask themselves that question. Religions offer an answer to that question. Some people choose to believe in religions and some don't. That's how it is, that is life. I do believe that humans will create religions even if you destroy all evidences of all religions. Yes, religions come with problems. But thinking of a world without religions is like you saying "I wish my clothes are not on fire" when your clothes are actually on fire!! It doesn't solve anything. |
I think everyone underestimates how much would be cleaned up in today's world without religion. More people of today are actually ok with not knowing everything, because many of us are always learning and understand the concept of there's always more to learn.
More traditional people may not be so traditional after all. They may show signs of progression because religion tends to create a strong traditionalist mindset, rather than a progressive learning one. Those people may end up getting better jobs and lifestyles; plus making more thought out choices.
Going off of this, if we say didn't have religion at this point just overnight I think the world would be much better off. Dogma is the thing that religion creates in people's minds with its own set rules to try and live by, otherwise you'll be punished. A lot of those specified rules were created to try and live by what people imagined a god's will would be though...not a persons. There are distortions of fear and anger thrown in with how people came up with these ideologies back then. We have more information as well as technology to receive said information faster to make up our own minds.
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