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If there were no atheists?
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RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 8:13 am)Graufreud Wrote: What life would be if there were no atheists, no agnostics and no skeptics?
Would be the same or different?

Of course it would be different. There would be more infighting between the believers/religions. 

Killing for your god might even become more accepted.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#12
RE: If there were no atheists?
If there were no skeptics, the existence of these beings that people worship would be no better established than it is now. There just wouldn't be anyone around to honestly point that out.
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#13
RE: If there were no atheists?
There used to be a time like that. People were too scared to question things. If we were still like that we wouldn't be making any progress.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”

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#14
RE: If there were no atheists?
It is as impossible for there to be no atheists as it is impossible for a population of people with normal color vision without any of them ever seeing sky is blue.

Atheism is not an invented ideology that could have not been invented, there is no self styled prophet to reveal atheism to the world.   There is no rag containing the received word of atheism.  It is an observation of what works for developing useful understanding of reality.

To imagine a world truly without atheists is to imagine a world where the range of observation and cognitive capacities exhibited by the human population is sharply truncated at the top end compared to what it is now.

So the proper question is not “what would not having atheism take away from human society”. It is instead “how much must you reduced the range of intellectual potential of the human population for there to be no atheists”.
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#15
RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 9:23 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: My maths grades would have been better. I mean "Hey, two plus two might be five!"

2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
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#16
RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 9:23 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: My maths grades would have been better. I mean "Hey, two plus two might be five!"

The number is exactly what your preacher or priest says. Until church leadership reinterprets the scriptures.
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#17
RE: If there were no atheists?
Middle east?
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#18
RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 11:08 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Middle east?

There certainly are atheists in the middle east. There are certainly far more atheists faking religious belief than religetards faking proper scepticism.
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RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 9:23 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: My maths grades would have been better. I mean "Hey, two plus two might be five!"

Hey, if 1+1+1 = 1 then no can can dispute your point.
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#20
RE: If there were no atheists?
'If atheists did not exist, God would find it necessary to invent them.' - Voltaire (sort of)

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