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If everyone was atheist

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If everyone was atheist
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#31
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 8:48 am
People will fight, kill and commit atrocities for a powerful idea.

Religion is a powerful idea.

Remove that and you have one less reason to be a dick to other people.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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#32
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 8:53 am
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#33
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 8:59 am
Would world be a better place without cancer? I mean - people would still be dying of something, so maybe we should just let cancer be?...
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#34
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 9:41 am
Some people start the fight because they enjoy fighting.
Religions or not religions.
Look at their faces.
Aren't they enjoying?


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#35
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 9:48 am (This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 9:51 am by Little Rik.)
Heart good

Argue  bad
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#36
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 10:00 am
Kumbaya....
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#37
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 10:01 am
(June 21, 2015 at 8:59 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Would world be a better place without cancer? I mean - people would still be dying of something, so maybe we should just let cancer be?...

That's dumb.  People very sick with cancer can't do much.  Just let everyone live as long, and as healthily, as possible.  Then, when overpopulation inevitably occurs:





This much more entertaining than cancer, and only slightly less painful.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 10:38 am (This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 10:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure do.  There would be one -less- thing people were offing each other over, one fewer excuse for base immorality, and one more source of human misery removed.  Not hard to do the math on that one, huh?
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#39
If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 10:51 am
It would be better because I wouldn't have to listen to the stupidity that spews out of their mouths.
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#40
RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(June 20, 2015 at 10:51 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do you think the world would be a better place if everyone was atheist?

Please explain your answer below.

I haven't read anyone's answer yet so what I write might have already been said.

Some personality types need to believe in some authority. I dont know why. Perhaps it makes life easier for them if the rules are clear cut, black and white.

Without religion, those same people would try to find some new authority to guide them. No, I don't think the world would be a better place without religion unless we figure out how to cure people from wanting easy answers about morality.

There is also a tendency in all of us to put ourselves and others in groups. Our group is obviously the good one while other groups have different degrees of wrongness with them. Religion can be used to separate people but the same thing is true of strongly held political views. If you read comments under some news articles, you can see how people shout down each other with words like feminists, atheists, liberals, conservatives etc. Once those words are used, the writer feels that he or she can stop reading anything that the other person said because the other person belongs to one of the bad groups. If religion disappeared, people would still try to put each other into neatly defined groups so they can hate and hurt one another.
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