RE: What if Everyone was Atheist?
November 18, 2015 at 10:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2015 at 10:08 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(November 18, 2015 at 9:51 pm)abaris Wrote: Oh, but you can make an educated guess by taking a close look at human nature. You can't possibly think that it's pink elephants and fairies floating from everyone's butthole, once religion is gone. [...]
Uhm, where exactly did I state anything about "pink elephants and fairies floating from everyone's butthole"? I'm sorry - if you read that in any of my posts - it must have been a very elaborate typo...
I'm not the one making blanket statements. All I asked was whether or not it's possible that at least some of the people wouldn't automatically find a different reason to f*** up other people, once they realized that this life was the only one they had. After all, plenty of people - like myself - reject religion and do not go on to join other organizations dedicated to indoctrination and murder. And if even only a few people didn't find a new motivation for hatred, after religion was gone - wouldn't that make the world at least a little better?
There's nothing "educated" about your guess. It's just an expression of cynicism, which is fine - but just as naive as any other position in relation to a purely hypothetical and impossible situation.
(November 18, 2015 at 9:51 pm)abaris Wrote: Look at human nature and history. Do you think, it would change? Since you called my assumptions baseless, based on what other than assumptions?
I'm looking at it. And what I see is that religion is and always has been a part of and an influence on human nature and history. Care to tell me what part of human history devoid of religion you're looking at?
"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
