Would the world neccesarily be a better place without God/religion?

[ABS]

Would it?

I'd be interested to hear all your reasons as to why

[The Grand Nudger]

Not neccesarily, no.

[Darwinian]

I would start by looking at the worlds most religion-free countries. As far as I can tell, countries like Sweden seem to be a lot more civilised and peaceful than more religious countries.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-epi...-go-god-go
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-epi...god-go-xii

[5thHorseman]

No way, without religion Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and Finland will have an immense battle royale.

[SleepingDemon]

You have to take into account the environment here. If it all disappeared tomorrow, what would the 50 and some odd percent that are bonafide fundamentalists do? It's a state of mind. This country alone would be horrible, and in the end, they would probably just replace it with something else.

It was easy for me to let it go, but I know people who believe because they need to believe. I doubt they would fare well without their crutch. The process needs to be slow. It has to be, because we are overturning thousands of years of social indoctrination. Each generation believes a little less. That has to suffice. No matter how valiantly the champions of atheism like Dawkins and Harris pontificate, they'll never convert the majority. It just doesn't work that way.

Small steps. We are at 30% now, so we have gained some ground globally. Unfortunately the world is always slow to change.

[houseofcantor]

God is local to the identity and ya ain't gonna have a world without faith. That said, "better" is relative; without religion we'd be moving forward.

[Mitja]

ofcourse it will if we will all be atheist we could all
1. live as one
2. forget about hell and heaven
3. could acomplish something big
4. wount be so much hate on the world
and so on yes deffenetly better world!

[Anomalocaris]

Not neccesarily, no.

Not necessarily, and in the short run false comfort withdraw will probably bring some unplesant consequences. but I would think the odds would improve substantially over the long run.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

If religion ceased overnight, in my opinion you would not notice the difference.As a species, humans would remain the same aggressive,greedy and stupid animals we have always been.

The poor would still be poor,the starving would still starve,the strong would still prey on the weak. But mostly,people would still simply get on with their lives as they always have.

Of course,there would still be emotionally needy and weak people who just have to have somebody to tell them how to live. Such people might turn to say political personality cults,as found in totalitarian states and to a lesser degree in the US.