(November 18, 2015 at 9:28 pm)abaris Wrote: There are more than enough flags to rally behind. So, no, the world would be just the same. Only the reasons to kill would be secular.
Sooo... You're saying there aren't any secular reasons to kill now? So there wouldn't be ANY decrease in ideologically based murder rate, if some of the motivations (in particular - the ones that come bundled with not only absolution from crimes and responsibility, but also from death) weren't there anymore? Not even a little? Interesting...
Well, not really "interesting" - more like "baseless" and "speculative".
We can't possibly know what the world would look like without religion, because we've never had an opportunity to witness such a world.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
