RE: What if Everyone was Atheist?
November 18, 2015 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2015 at 10:32 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(November 18, 2015 at 10:12 pm)abaris Wrote: The absence of one ideology doesn't change anything. [...]
Religion is not "one ideology". There are hundreds/thousands of them and they differ from other ideologies - as I already stated, and you conveniently disregarded - in that they offer absolution and promise of eternal life, making this life far less important.
And "who is some"? It's exactly who it sounds it is - a number of people. I don't know how many people without religion would turn to communism, or atheism plus - but I can't possibly imagine that it would be all of them. And even a few less atrocities - and it might be way more than few - would make the world a better place, if only slightly.
Without AIDS, or cancer - people would still be dying of something. But at least a few people would die later and possibly in less pain. Which was my point.
"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
