Opiate of the people
However, i think it would be possible and I can imagine their being positive changes.
The problem is, religion is so ingrained in society and there are just such bloody fanatics that it would take generations of being secular. Imagine; people being good willed towards one another without doing it because they can get to 'heaven'. It's possible its just going to take awhile and hard work.
Originally posted by King Kandy
Yes, the world would be better off with no religion. I don't think necessarily because of any properties of religion itself, but there are definitely policies in most religions that negatively impact the world.
I could get on board with this, to a degree. There's good actions and bad actions that people do. My thought is that if you took away religion, some of the good people do in the name of religion would leave, some of the bad would leave as well, but most of both would stick around because it's human good and evil, not particular to religion.
But I do think more of the bad would go away than the good. It's hard to create good where the altruism doesn't already exist. It isn't as hard to create negativity where otherwise people wouldn't look down on an idea or person.
Originally posted by Digi
I could get on board with this, to a degree. There's good actions and bad actions that people do. My thought is that if you took away religion, some of the good people do in the name of religion would leave, some of the bad would leave as well, but most of both would stick around because it's human good and evil, not particular to religion.But I do think more of the bad would go away than the good. It's hard to create good where the altruism doesn't already exist. It isn't as hard to create negativity where otherwise people wouldn't look down on an idea or person.
Originally posted by the ninjak
All things are good until you overindulge in them.
Money is good until you get greedy.
Sex is good until you become a perv. Killing to a degree is fine.
Religion and Spirituality is good until Fundamentalism rears it's ugly head.Overindulgence is the Devil!
I call it extremism, and yes extremism (Overindulgence) is the evil path.