RE: If everyone was atheist
July 6, 2015 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 7:29 pm by Excited Penguin.
Edit Reason: mistook Harris for Hitchens.
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You can't exactly know how bad religion is until you actually get rid of it. So all of our points are basically moot. But I will say this, anyone who refuses to believe that religion isn't the biggest factor of stupidity and therefore violence and poverty that played into politics since the dawn of civilization is pretty much deluded by some kind of liberal dogma or smth. Of course religion isn't everything - it literally is an expression of human culture, it is much more an apendage to it than anything else, really.
But now we have grown a new skin - technology, and mark my words, nobody will be having any reason to be violent to nobody in a fully rational, secular world. People who follow reason will always seek out ways to maximize their own society's wealth and wellbeing both for their own sakes and everybody else's. Like Harris says, no society has ever suffered from being too rational - that's a preposterous notion.
But now we have grown a new skin - technology, and mark my words, nobody will be having any reason to be violent to nobody in a fully rational, secular world. People who follow reason will always seek out ways to maximize their own society's wealth and wellbeing both for their own sakes and everybody else's. Like Harris says, no society has ever suffered from being too rational - that's a preposterous notion.
