Article: Would the world be better off without religion?

[ShaMan]

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

I agree. But I do see the guilt that religion pitches being responsible for much Human suffering... Including suicide.

[Dystopia]

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

I agree. But I do see the guilt that religion pitches being responsible for much Human suffering... Including suicide.

I would say the biggest problem is making others suffer and not yourself, suicide is a sin anyway.

[Angrboda]

In a study of high-school students, Furrow and colleagues (2004) similarly found a strong association between religiosity and prosocial interests, including empathy and a sense of responsibility toward others. Most, although not all, investigators (e.g., Kohlberg 1981) have also reported positive correlations between individuals’ religiosity and their level of moral reasoning (Ellis and Peterson 1996), meaning that more religious individuals tend to reason in slightly more sophisticated ways about moral problems compared with nonreligious individuals (although moral reasoning and moral behavior tend to be only moderately correlated; e.g., Stams et al. 2006).

[The Grand Nudger]

I'd prefer simple and robust over "sophisticated", personally. Opinions, opinions. Their conclusion doesn't surprise me in the least- in that regard.

[psychoslice]

I don't like seeing religion controlling everything, and I also would hate to see atheist controlling everything, let any group of people control and power goes to their head.

[Anomalocaris]

In a study of high-school students, Furrow and colleagues (2004) similarly found a strong association between religiosity and prosocial interests, including empathy and a sense of responsibility toward others. Most, although not all, investigators (e.g., Kohlberg 1981) have also reported positive correlations between individuals’ religiosity and their level of moral reasoning (Ellis and Peterson 1996), meaning that more religious individuals tend to reason in slightly more sophisticated ways about moral problems compared with nonreligious individuals (although moral reasoning and moral behavior tend to be only moderately correlated; e.g., Stams et al. 2006).

It does indeed take a form of moral sophistication to moralize one's way through blowing up little girls on buses in order to get to 72 promised virgins in heaven. Most atheist moral simpletons would have given up at "that's just wrong", and "there ain't no heaven".

[Minimalist]

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.

Still worth a shot.

[dyresand]

It would be better if it was not that popular and given the statistics of atheism and atheism being more of dominant worldview.

[psychoslice]

At this moment in time no it wouldn't be better of without religion, many need to wake up and see that we are all one, all one on this little rock floating through space, that we are all one with the cosmos and that there is no separate god. This way of thinking will unite us all, it will become a new religion, there will be no other religion than this, but sadly most of us are not ready yet, we are not civilized enough yet, and we are not mature enough yet, we have to let go of our security blanket called religion. This new way of thinking has already started, there are many people out there that are leading the way, people like Jacque Fresco, Eckhart Tolle and many more.

[dyresand]

At this moment in time no it wouldn't be better of without religion, many need to wake up and see that we are all one, all one on this little rock floating through space, that we are all one with the cosmos and that there is no separate god. This way of thinking will unite us all, it will become a new religion, there will be no other religion than this, but sadly most of us are not ready yet, we are not civilized enough yet, and we are not mature enough yet, we have to let go of our security blanket called religion. This new way of thinking has already started, there are many people out there that are leading the way, people like Jacque Fresco, Eckhart Tolle and many more.

Well its better to know the truth than a bronze age lie.