Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong

[Reasonable_Jeff]

It's just that you've made this sort of claim a few times now, that without God/Jesus you'd run around killing and raping or whatever. You haven't put it in exactly those words but that would a broadly accurate summation. I feel it might clarify the matter if you were to expand on why you would behave this way. You can take that to mean "indulge my curiosity" if you like.

Sure Stimbo.

If I became convinced that God did not exist, I feel confident that I would adopt moral nihilism. Then it would seem to me that we have a lot of people that are dragging down the human race so-to-speak and it would be in the best interest for all of us to do away with them so that we can have a stronger species.

For example, if it really was the case that God did not exist...and I became convinced of it....it seems that religious systems really are nothing but foolishness that is weighing down further human progress.

The fastest way to rid the world of the problem would be to kill off the religious so that we could flourish without the burden of religion.

Perhaps what I've just described isn't truly Social Darwinism...I'm not as learned on the topic as I'm sure some of you are...but that's how this thread started in my mind. Since those are the conclusions that I would come to, I was curious what people who really didn't believe in God thought.

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somewhere around 90,000 to 60,000 years ago, it is believed that the modern human population fell to as few as 600-10,000 individuals (there are 3 major theories, each with their own time and number of individuals, these are the widest ranges). We, as a species, teetered on the brink of extinction. Did we survive because these individuals were only looking out for themselves? No. They survived, and therefore we are here today, because they worked together.

Wow....I didn't know that. Cool point =D