The world would be a much better place without religion: True or false?

Question

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Answer 1

False.  The world would not have learned morality and social consciousness had religion not existed.

Answer 2

So very true.  There'd be no war on terror, no middle east crisis, no genocide in Darfur and no holocaust.

Answer 3

God destroyed it once because it was so vile.  If we follow the Bible we will become great.  Just look at how our founding fathers did that and today we are living in the greatest nation in the world.  

Answer 4

Its not religion that causes problems, its the ignorant people.  All religions ask for peace and for everybody to live in harmony.  People only start having problems when the words of any holy book are twisted and manipulated.

Answer 5

false. religion has had a very real and good influence in our world even back when there was only paganism. religion is

Answer 6

Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Kashmir dispute, no Indo/Pakistan partition, no Israel/Palestine wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no Northern Ireland 'troubles'. Imagine no Taliban blowing up ancient statues, lashing women for showing an inch of skin, or publicly beheading blasphemers and apostates. Imagine no persecutions of the Jews - no Jews to persecute indeed.

Answer 7

Without certain religions, maybe.  Your question cannot be analyzed as a simple true and false, but since you want to play the bifurcation arguement; false.

Answer 8

both.  religion does cause problems, fights, wars but it also helps a lot of people get through the day.  i read that people are generally happier if they follow a religion

Answer 9

Absolutely true.

Answer 10

True-Because-RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Since the ‘dawn’ of Man, he has asked questions such as, “Why am I here?” and “Where did all that surrounds me come from?”

In order to define the feelings that provoke such questions and ultimately discover their origin, thereby arriving at some sort of answer, he has tried to become re-connected to the source of all things in the hope of understanding the creative force of the Universe, That which is called ‘God‘.

The Latin root of the word ‘Religion’ suggests ‘re-binding’.  Religion (defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘a particular faith or system of worship’) in this sense is often confused with Spirituality, the one not necessarily involving the other.  History has shown us that religion has little to do with spirituality when it is wielded by men as an instrument in the attainment of autonomy over others. The power and wealth attained is used, not solely for the benefit of their followers and the needy, but to maintain their own ‘sovereignty‘.  

This is not to say that Religions, both those described on this website and many others, do not provide the means for people to reconnect with ‘God‘, and when Religion leads to an attempt to reconnect at both physical and metaphysical levels to the Cosmic Energy of Creation through love and purity of intent (meaning no harm to anything or anyone), it has everything to do with Spirituality.

Religions offer a set of values to communities, often involving adherence to codified ritualistic practices based on beliefs that have an inseparable connection with a community’s ancestral and/or cultural background.  This can involve both personal practices related to communal faith, and group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.  It often represents a cohesive, collective system of beliefs focusing on the philosophy that an unseen being, person, force or object exists that is considered to be supernatural, divine and sacred.  So it can be said that Religions have practices, values, institutions, traditions, and rituals that are traditional and are associated with a core belief which may encourage or even dictate a way of life.

Spirituality, however, is usually a deep and profound ‘personal’ experience associated with an individual's private quest to re-discover his or her own essence and discern who he or she really is.  This quest invariably involves entering into some form of holotropic state, (‘holotropic’ derives from Greek and means ‘a journey toward wholeness‘).  This state, whether it is consciously sought or is spontaneous in its origin, usually brings about life-changing spiritual developmental processes associated with that person reconnecting with the Creative Principle of the Universe, or God!  

'Reconnection' has no external counterpart in everyday human experience, so few people who attain it ever talk about it.  For this reason I have written my book “Flight of the Mystic Eagle” as I feel that ‘reconnection’, once encouraged, can be attained by anyone who is so hearted  

Answer 11

False - religion gives people something to live for, and I know religion makes people confused and causes conflict, but overall it has a positive impact because of the good things that are taught through it.  

Answer 12

True, though not by much. There are other, more prominent, sources of conflict in the world.

Answer 13

Matt Murray killed four people at two New Life Church facilities in Colorado. Murray said he hated Christians and that they were the "cause of all the problems of the world."

Somebody needed some God here.

Answer 14

For all who say "true" I point you no further than Mao and Stalin to view your world without religion.  If you REALLY want life like that, let me know.

Answer 15

Humanity is the world.

The reasoning power of humanity gives birth to religion.

False religion is a tool to do evil.

Answer 16

what about this question :The world would be a much better without police,true or false??! It can be true if the police accept bribes from thieves and criminals,or if the police supports a dictator regime (Saddam regime,Bush regime..etc),BUT usually it's false.So it depends on the religion teachings.

Answer 17

That's a tough one. It is easy to say that all the wars and fighting going on in the world right now are down to religion, and i can see why people think this, but is it not more to do with how we interpret our own religions, rather than what we think of other peoples? No religion is for war and total power, so the people who believe that this is what their religion is about are the ones to blame for the problems religion causes, not the religions themselves. Am i making sense? lol . I know what i am trying to say!

Answer 18

Today- it's hard to tell.

But in the past, if there was no religion, many deaths would have been prevented.  Then again, wars would have probably been fought over something else.

I like to think that without religion, there would be less conflict, but you never know.

Answer 19

The world would be a much better place without humans.  Religion is just a side-effect of humans.

Answer 20

Define religion.

Define better.

Answer 21

True but then man would have to invent something as equally evil to replace it

Answer 22

Hitler and Stalin in under a quarter of a century slaughtered more people than all the christians ever placed on earth. Roll on atheism if you like murder and mindless violence!!!

Answer 23

FALSE! what would we be without having hope, belief, faith? you are saying the world would be better being full of Atheists? I don't think so, the problem with man in not religion it is acceptace and tolerance

Answer 24

Religion is not the problem. Man is the culprit.

Answer 25

True. Religion is the root of all evil. Every war ever started caused by religion one way or the other.

Answer 26

True.

The record of religion is one of sheer bloodthistiness, from Crusades to Inquisitions, to even modern terrorism (9/11).  

Answer 27

False, unless you are talking about the athiest religion.

Answer 28

it would be better if religions would not corrupt as the crusades did in Christianity and as the Jews did to the poor Palestinians

Answer 29

Far worse.  Mother Theresa of Calcutta did all that she did for the poor and downtrodden out of love for God -- and not because of any "feel good" movement.  Picking up diseased, vermin-infested dying people in the gutters, carrying them to a place to be cleansed, fed and allowed to die with dignity?  Show me a non-religious person who would do that daily for decades.

Also, religiuous communities have built hospitals, schools, colleges and universities and fought for human rights for centuries.  We are far better off with religion in the world.

Answer 30

I'm not a religious person so I feel like saying no. But everyone has their own way of dealing with things and confiding in things and for alot of people that's religion.

Thinking about it, the world would be no better or worse without religion because people would find new things to follow and new things to complain about.

Answer 31

Try listening to this song by Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip , (its not by a Christian band or a Christian song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KnGNOiFl...

Some of the lyrics:

it was You that built the towers

It was You that invented bombs, and the fear that comes with them

And it was You that invented money, and the corrupt economic systems

You invented terms like just-war and terms like friendly fire

And it was You that didn’t know when to stop digging deeper, when to stop building higher

It was You that exhausted the resources I carefully laid out on this earth,

And it was You that even saw these problems coming but accredited them little worth

It was You that used my teachings for your own personal gain

And it was You that committed such tragedies, even though they were in my name

So I apologize for any mistakes I made, and when my words misconstrued

But this apology’s to mother nature, cause I created you