(November 22, 2010 at 1:14 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:If everyone truly believed that once you are dead, you cease to exist in any form forever, they would risk doing alot more in life.
Are you planning to abolish the jails as well? The threat of imprisonment is a far greater deterrent than any silly-ass god. Plenty of murders have been carried out by people who claim 'god' told them to do it.
you are missing my point. Obviously, the law is our current detterent, but you haven't opened your mind to what people think about consequences. I don't kill people and I don't believe in god. Honestly, the law has little to do with why I don't kill. I don't kill because I dont believe in killing. We are all doomed to the same fate whether you are alive for 1 yr or 100 years. We all think about consequences for whatever actions we do and if you dont believe in being punished by going to hell, you are more likely to try to get away with stuff. Religion has the all knowing god who knows how many times you masturbated. You are thinking in modern times while most of society before 1900 got away with murder. People were murdered at a much higher rate before science and technology caught up and getting away with murder is much harder. The deterent back then was religion. This is way too big of a topic to debate as there are so many factors involved. The question before you is if there was no religion, can you say there wouldnt be more murders? Obviously, its just an educated guess, but the people who are not afraid of the law, but of god can only add to the murder total if there was no god. Right now, there are 2 deterents, the law and god. Take away one and there are going to be more.
