Quote:The widespread assertion that the world would be better off without religion is a reasonable hypothesis. Yet data suggest that skeptics should attach no more than a modest level of probability to it.

CSICOP: Would the world be better off without religion?

No if there was no god people would rape and kill all the time... Just kidding, my answer is yes. But I don't agree with making religion illegal, I prefer letting it fade away slowly trough natural enlightenment of the human race

Let's try it and see.

What have we got to lose except the delusions of millions of fuckheads.

(July 31, 2014 at 2:54 pm)rasetsu Wrote:

Quote:The widespread assertion that the world would be better off without religion is a reasonable hypothesis. Yet data suggest that skeptics should attach no more than a modest level of probability to it.

CSICOP: Would the world be better off without religion?

I have no need of asking this question for I do not envision a world without religion.

I envision a world where the role of religion is such that the question "is the world better off without religion" would become about as weighty as "is the world better off without daytime soap opera", and would likely generate similar sensible answers.

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(July 31, 2014 at 4:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Let's try it and see.

What have we got to lose except the delusions of millions of fuckheads.

Delusion is integral to fuckheadhood. You may deprive them of one, and they would instantly substitute another.

I bet some people would commit suicide

(July 31, 2014 at 4:10 pm)Blackout Wrote: I bet some people would commit suicide

I bet less people would commit suicide.

(July 31, 2014 at 4:12 pm)ShaMan Wrote:

(July 31, 2014 at 4:10 pm)Blackout Wrote: I bet some people would commit suicide

I bet less people would commit suicide.

Yes, but some wouldn't be able to live knowing no god exists and that there is nothing after we are dead.

(July 31, 2014 at 4:10 pm)Blackout Wrote: I bet some people would commit suicide

I bet some people would find a reason to live.

(July 31, 2014 at 4:23 pm)Chuck Wrote:

(July 31, 2014 at 4:10 pm)Blackout Wrote: I bet some people would commit suicide

I bet some people would find a reason to live.

And others would lose it. It goes both ways and the result wouldn't be unanimous throughout the world