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Would the world be better off if all theists became atheists.
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RE: Would the world be better off if all theists became atheists.
Honestly I would be content if the situation was simply reversed, atheists and agnostics made up the majority, and remaining theists were the more philisophical types. The fringe groups in modern Christianity and Islam pose the biggest threat, however the small, uneducated theists who believe because it's all they know are the most troubling. The Phelps clan gets a lot of press, but the reality is that their doctrine is no more a threat than the 2000 and some odd members of the flat earth society. I worry most about the average believers, they make up the bulk of voting populations, and their politics impede progress.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
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RE: Would the world be better off if all theists became atheists. - by SleepingDemon - May 14, 2011 at 12:54 am

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