Yahweh
1st June 2003, 05:11 AM
When I envision a new Earth, I try to imagine a whole world where religion was an unknown idea. I imagine a place where the entire world never thought for a second about devinity. And when I think of that world I see a place far more advanced than this world that I am sitting on right now as I'm typing this. I imagine a world that nobody questioned the credibility of a Earth that rotates around the Sun, or an Earth where prayer was more of a sign of sickness rather than normality. I would imagine an Earth with no religions or faiths or anything of the such would be a place where science was an answer to everything. And yes, there would be an answer to everything, but in the case where that answer was hard to come by like "Was there really a Big Bang" there would many theories because a question like that is really really hard... almost like asking whats the square root of a 300 digit prime number. Its a place where if you said that you talked to an invisible man named God everynight before you go to bed, than you would be delusional and would need counciling and be placed on a high dosage of Respirtol. Its a place where people who claimed to have any power that broke any law of science (such as mental telepathy, telekenisis, or the ability to fly) would first be scrutinized and examined throroughly, only then to have their hands stamped in big red bold letters "Not Quite Right" so people would know immediately that these people are not quite right or flat out liars.
Heres a list of things that would have never happened in the world with no religions:
1. There would never have been a 300 year long period of witch persecution
2. No jihad, because lets face it, jihad is without a doubt the stupidest most ignorant thing to be concieved ever... ever.
3. No Al Queda
4. No Hitler or Jewish Persecution, as there would be no Jews or reason to persucute
5. No stupidity... thats such a generalized idea... by that I mean people kill others because God told them so, or people who belong to cults
6. No slavery. I've heard that apparently some people back in the 400 years of enslaving blacks, people were taught that both Adam and Eve were white therefore making white people supreme and more intelligent than the black people.
This list goes on and on.
Some things that would still exist would be:
1. Holidays. But the holidays would be different because they would celebrate achievements like landing on the moon, or winning independence from a country, or great scientific achievements.
2. America still would have been discovered by the Europeans, probably sooner as science would encourage exploration.
The list goes on and on again.
But I would not want to live in a world without religion. For 2 reasons, #1 there would be no Buffy the Vampire Slayer show, #2 there would be no Angel show. I love those shows.
Heres a list of things that would have never happened in the world with no religions:
1. There would never have been a 300 year long period of witch persecution
2. No jihad, because lets face it, jihad is without a doubt the stupidest most ignorant thing to be concieved ever... ever.
3. No Al Queda
4. No Hitler or Jewish Persecution, as there would be no Jews or reason to persucute
5. No stupidity... thats such a generalized idea... by that I mean people kill others because God told them so, or people who belong to cults
6. No slavery. I've heard that apparently some people back in the 400 years of enslaving blacks, people were taught that both Adam and Eve were white therefore making white people supreme and more intelligent than the black people.
This list goes on and on.
Some things that would still exist would be:
1. Holidays. But the holidays would be different because they would celebrate achievements like landing on the moon, or winning independence from a country, or great scientific achievements.
2. America still would have been discovered by the Europeans, probably sooner as science would encourage exploration.
The list goes on and on again.
But I would not want to live in a world without religion. For 2 reasons, #1 there would be no Buffy the Vampire Slayer show, #2 there would be no Angel show. I love those shows.