(June 9, 2013 at 10:07 pm)ronedee Wrote: ...hypothetically of course!
Maybe 50 or 60 years from now when science finally proves that all of you are right and there is no God..... and religion dies out for you!
Where as a society will the moral compass come from? Considering of course you even want a moral society?
Will it be: Laws? hmmmm...who will instill these laws? Teachers? Police? Parents? Military? Government Agencies?
Will it be community groups? Say like: Acorn? YMC...whoops....Boys & Girls & Gay clubs? Planned Parenthood? The cities or states?
Or will it be just every "being" for themselves, and NO LAWS? Total FREEDOM! WOW!! Freedom to do ANYTHING!! And no one to tell you differently!
I'm just wondering what it will be like in "Your Perfect World" w/o God & religion?
Let us see where the moral compass points in a world w/o God?
Being new here I have obviously missed previous discussions that have covered this ground so I am happy to take these as genuine questions.
There appear to be a number of assumptions in your questions which are probably not reasonable. If we did manage to prove that there is no God I could not see religions simply folding up their tents and closing down. Most atheists would regard God as largely disproved today and yet see little reduction in numbers in the religions of the world. Some, in fact, are booming.
I would imagine, whatever the evidence, that religion would continue as if nothing had happened. Never underestimate the propensity towards denial of believers.
Best case scenario - it would take hundreds of years for religions to reduce to covering, say 10% of the population of the planet.
Even if we were to assume religion did shut down what evidence is there that morality would change as a result one iota?
That is not to say morality won't change - it does, even now with religion, merely that the loss of religion won't cause further change.
Proving that there is no God consequently proves that morality is a man-made construct. My guess is that we would discover that it was a natural, evolutionary development that allowed larger brained, social mammals to live and cooperate together in communities, supplementing the instinctive behaviour that suffices for less intelligent mammals.
Obviously this would explain the relative nature of morality that we have observed throughout history.
Society continues pretty much as it always has done.
A more interesting question would be how we deal with those that find the idea of no heaven and true, real, permanent death so frightening.
