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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 11:42 pm
I voted no.
Because I expect soon after the rejection of all extant gods, someone would think up a new one and attract followers and we'd be on the merry-go-round again.
Religion is a useful replicator that acts to solidify and perpetuate societies.
If God didn't exist, we'd invent Him.
Oh, wait.....
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 21, 2015 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 11:50 pm by MJ the Skeptical.)
That's^ ridiculous and completely pessimistic. The only way religion would take hold again in a world full of atheists would be if society collapsed and we went back to the stone age or something.
A population free of dogma entering the technological age no less would be far less vulnerable to such superstitious dribble, religiosity would be a ulta-minority position like atheism was for most of history.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 12:09 am
(June 21, 2015 at 11:45 pm)Godslayer Wrote: That's^ ridiculous and completely pessimistic. The only way religion would take hold again in a world full of atheists would be if society collapsed and we went back to the stone age or something.
A population free of dogma entering the technological age no less would be far less vulnerable to such superstitious dribble, religiosity would be a ulta-minority position like atheism was for most of history.
You have way too much confidence in the intelligence of the average human and way too little understanding of the creativity of the selfish.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 12:31 am
We all know it's the afterlife sales pitch which gets 'em hooked.
The next religion won't need a reference to a mighty god.
It'll be subscribing to the next "big" salespitch alternative to an afterlife of sorts.
Maybe being a member of a club which puts its resources to spaceflight to protect from the next big meteor.
Or advances in cryo or some type of uploading one's "memories" into the "holy" fucking mainframe!
Either way, if there's money to be made at the expense of the gullible, guess who wins everytime.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 12:45 am
(June 20, 2015 at 10:51 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do you think the world would be a better place if everyone was atheist?
Please explain your answer below.
No, not so long as formalized religion is prevented from wielding worldly power.
People are people, and adhere to their own values regardless of stated rationales. I know plenty of good believers, and enough shitty nonbelievers, to know that considerations of gods or their absence aren't germane to the quality of life in this world.
The only benefit arising from everyone being atheist would be the decimation of the governing power of organized religion. That is quickly becoming moot as the power of organized religion wanes in an increasingly secular world.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 1:05 am
Actually, for all intents and purposes, Australia is almost there.
To me, my whole life, it's like there is no religion.
We still have heaps of social issues.
Immigration resettlements, no jobs, cost of living through the roof.
(I was going to say Indians taking all our jobs, but that's a universal problem)
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 1:07 am
I would've fucked someone so far. don't ask, it's complicated.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 4:42 am
(June 22, 2015 at 1:05 am)ignoramus Wrote: Actually, for all intents and purposes, Australia is almost there.
To me, my whole life, it's like there is no religion.
We still have heaps of social issues.
Immigration resettlements, no jobs, cost of living through the roof.
(I was going to say Indians taking all our jobs, but that's a universal problem)
Pretty much goes for me too here in the U of K. I switch off from here, gods go away. Most other problems we have are general to the rest of the civilised world - and America - and contain no god.
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 5:12 am
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Now let's see what our friends in the middle east are up to?
How's Muhammed going?
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RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 5:15 am
My only concern regarding everybody being atheist would be, are there enough babies for us all to eat?
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