Would the world be better off if all theists became atheists.

[reverendjeremiah]

who wants to grab a video cam, put on some matching outfits and go door to door spreading the message of atheism like mormons do.. would make for some great youtube videos

what would your opening line be?

Hello..My name is Jeremiah, and we have someliterature for you

*hands them a blank paper*

[prayforme]

No, I'm afraid the world would still be shit, albeit maybe just a tad less so.

[darkblight]

who wants to grab a video cam, put on some matching outfits and go door to door spreading the message of atheism like mormons do.. would make for some great youtube videos

what would your opening line be?

hello sir or madam , my name is xxxx and i am here today to have a talk with you about reality.

[Dreamer]

I voted NO

Some people need others to tell them what to do.

Some people need a boogeyman.

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who wants to grab a video cam, put on some matching outfits and go door to door spreading the message of atheism like mormons do.. would make for some great youtube videos

what would your opening line be?

hello sir or madam , my name is xxxx and i am here today to have a talk with you about reality.

hahahha

I would totally do that!!

[Minimalist]

Time for a repeat showing of Kissing Hank's Ass.

[darkblight]

I voted NO

Some people need others to tell them what to do.

Some people need a boogeyman.

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who wants to grab a video cam, put on some matching outfits and go door to door spreading the message of atheism like mormons do.. would make for some great youtube videos

what would your opening line be?

hello sir or madam , my name is xxxx and i am here today to have a talk with you about reality.

hahahha

I would totally do that!!

well.. then lets do it.

[Darth]

who wants to grab a video cam, put on some matching outfits and go door to door spreading the message of atheism like mormons do.. would make for some great youtube videos

john safran vs god: Door knocking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58wgn-9Y3c

[SleepingDemon]

Honestly I would be content if the situation was simply reversed, atheists and agnostics made up the majority, and remaining theists were the more philisophical types. The fringe groups in modern Christianity and Islam pose the biggest threat, however the small, uneducated theists who believe because it's all they know are the most troubling. The Phelps clan gets a lot of press, but the reality is that their doctrine is no more a threat than the 2000 and some odd members of the flat earth society. I worry most about the average believers, they make up the bulk of voting populations, and their politics impede progress.

[Cinjin]

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

[Angrboda]

I voted a big fat "No".


To borrow Min's tagline, you can't fix stupid. And the human race is stupid. (*)

The human race has evolved just enough intelligence to be dangerous (to itself). If that happened tomorrow, fanatics would simply find something else to be fanatical about, the dogmatic would just be dogmatic about something else (likely science), and the tribe of the idiot would just take up residence in a new land.

Don't get me wrong, I think man is an incredibly noble creature, capable of amazing feats, sublime expression, and jaw-dropping acts of courage and compassion. However, one thing homo sapiens' brain isn't entirely well equipped for is creating, developing and maintaining healthy and rational knowledge and beliefs; atheism is not above the fray -- our belief engines are more driven by our social nature than our rational one. Truth is a social creation, and the organon that we look to for the creation of truth -- be it religion, philosophy, politics, skepticism or atheism -- all depend on the same mammalian cognitive engine, and it wasn't built for truth, justice, mercy and compassion per se. The selfish gene is indeed selfish, and it is not moved by your concern for goodness and light.

(*) On the other hand, if the question were, "what if we all became Taoists....

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And in the first year of the Age Of Disbelief, all the bad people were eliminated from amidst the body of the elect by the efficient prosecution of The Four Horsemen of The New Atheism and their atheistic minions....