RE: Would the world neccesarily be a better place without God/religion?
January 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm
You have to take into account the environment here. If it all disappeared tomorrow, what would the 50 and some odd percent that are bonafide fundamentalists do? It's a state of mind. This country alone would be horrible, and in the end, they would probably just replace it with something else.
It was easy for me to let it go, but I know people who believe because they need to believe. I doubt they would fare well without their crutch. The process needs to be slow. It has to be, because we are overturning thousands of years of social indoctrination. Each generation believes a little less. That has to suffice. No matter how valiantly the champions of atheism like Dawkins and Harris pontificate, they'll never convert the majority. It just doesn't work that way.
Small steps. We are at 30% now, so we have gained some ground globally. Unfortunately the world is always slow to change.
It was easy for me to let it go, but I know people who believe because they need to believe. I doubt they would fare well without their crutch. The process needs to be slow. It has to be, because we are overturning thousands of years of social indoctrination. Each generation believes a little less. That has to suffice. No matter how valiantly the champions of atheism like Dawkins and Harris pontificate, they'll never convert the majority. It just doesn't work that way.
Small steps. We are at 30% now, so we have gained some ground globally. Unfortunately the world is always slow to change.
"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
"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
