I've Been Meaning To Ask This Question

let's just say, to make this question work, that the whole world stopped believing in god. just threw it all out the window. what would happen? would the earth blow up? would satan rule? honestly.

It would never happen but earth would probably become hell

like catch on fire?

and for the sake of running off in the wrong direction.....let's just say.... it happens.

in this day God does more harm than good. if we gave it all up im sure we'd be better off. honestly, how many ppl do u kno go "should i rape this girl? nah- god wouldnt like that..." that big imaginary friend isnt the source of morality, ppl are.

but if the world caught on fire? well everything would die. except for the extremely rich and paranoid. they would fly to the moon where they would smoke huge, fluffy buds all their lives in low gravity.

low gravity gravity hits. niiiiiiiiice. i wanna be 1 of the rich ones.



come on. burst into flames? stfu.

well if no one believed in god... they would just find another thing to fanasize over...you seen the episode of south park where cartmen wants a wii an freezes himself to go to the future..well long story short no religon but still cults whorshipping one thing an fighting over the true way to believe...

im definitely one of those folks who believes the ideas of heaven and hell are just metaphors for the good and bad parts of life. if u do good shit ur generally going to make ur surroundings nicer, making ur next day more like heaven. im sure back in the day when a village only had 50 ppl in it it was that much more tru. nowadays this stuff isnt really as relevant.

over the years thru selfishness we have complicated things alot. people get lonely so that have big families. people dont want to work as hard so they improve technology. these changes only improve the life of one generation, then the next one is accustomed to it all and has to deal with the negative shit. so they continue the process. the more diseases we cure the more nasty mutations and cancers sho up. people used to get killed from infections, now we got thousands of ppl dying every day from car crashes.

If people stopped believing in GOD.. belieiving their own UNDERSTANDINGS of the word "GOD"... got rid of their images of GOD...

They would actually realize GOD MIND.. they could free themselves from the GOD that they created in THEIR own mind..

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Interesting. My thoughts are...Religion has primarily been used as a tool to control and keep people docile...easier to rule. I think if you take that away....over time, people will be more likely to rebel.

In general I think people will just find a new way to express themselves. For the people...religion appears to be an outlet. I think that can be replaced with something else if need be. Maybe more artists, thinkers etc. will emerge. But thats a good question, Fdd.

Garden Knowm said:

If people stopped believing in GOD.. belieiving their own UNDERSTANDINGS of the word "GOD"... got rid of their images of GOD...

They would actually realize GOD MIND.. they could free themselves from the GOD that they created in THEIR own mind..

iloveyou

fdd for president

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Beautiful post.... ...nicely stated

Yeah, GK summed it up perfectly.

I think fdd' would make a great president. Is he running?

BloodShotI'z said:

My thoughts are...Religion has primarily been used as a tool to control and keep people docile...easier to rule. I think if you take that away....over time, people will be more likely to rebel.

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Very well said Blood, I believe this to be true ESPECIALLY for the Christian religion.

As far as the question at hand, I personally think it will never happen. If it did however, I personally don't think anything would change. I mean honestly, how many people Actually abide by their religion to a "T"? Very few in my opinion; as for these people, they would probably be too scared to even go outside

Relgion is only to comfort people with death and life. if it works for them kick ass! it dosent do it for me though.

fdd2blk said:

let's just say, to make this question work, that the whole world stopped believing in god. just threw it all out the window. what would happen? would the earth blow up? would satan rule? honestly.

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The earth would definitely not blow up, there would be peace on earth.
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I would expect the world to be a much more peaceful place. You will still get troubled people. There would still be murder, rape and the common place violence you see on the news and in the paper. Although, I think that would deminish greatly. You would still get nations warring over resources. Although no jihads and no fundimentalist Christians shooting abortion Doctors.

If you could get the billions of religious people on this planet to stop living for their gods and start living for each other imagine what we could accomplish.

I think one day people will have no need for faith. They will just see it in history books and think, 'Wow! How could those people believe such nonsense?'

well now you see this is the problem entirly...no one has faith anymore...now i dont say that i follow any particuler religion but i believe in a god i believe in something greater than me...also if people actually followed there religons there would be peace...since all religios books around the world at least promote peace an love to each other...its the radiacls who take it to far an start as you say jihads or as they might say crusades...but without religon these people would still be there...still with the radical mentality they would just put it towards another topic...

ppl dont even kno what they believe in anymore. ever heard of the Invisible Pink Unicorn? the abrahamic religions that have had ppl acting like sheep for so long are so stagnant it doesnt even matter that theyve been bastardised by the bourgeosie. its all flat out ridiculous.

what everybody needs to realize (and it IS catching on u just have to open ur eyes) is that everybody is god. and not like we're all lowly puzzle pieces either.

i like to play the rebel satanist for kicks sometimes, so what i say to some ppl goes in one ear and out the other. but really, im sure GK will agree with me here- simply only existing and experiencing and doing are beautiful things. we all have the ability to turn off our minds (or superficial identification) and love the world we live in. when u do this there is no need for an external god. in this state of mind u lose ur personal identification- YOU become nothing/everything. in a way, everybody who is meditating at this moment is the same being. not just on this planet, anybody/anything everywhere. u know aliens and shit. trees and animals. rocks.

the human mind has created religion. while the mind is a reflection of ones self, it is NOT ones tru nature. it is a tool. a tool that needs time to cool off or it does not serve its productive purpose.

the dark ages have not passed. if the human race is to continue on, religion will die.
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when the veil is lifted we will once again be one with god. the veil itself is what is separating us from god. the veil keeps us from seeing the one thing we all have in common.

preoQpydDlusion said:

if god has unlimited knowledge and is all-powerful, he must be omnipresent. such a being would not have the ability to differentiate himself from anything because he is everything. god cant think.

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stop thinking and find out for urself.

AzGrOw-N-sMoKe said:

well now you see this is the problem entirly...no one has faith anymore...now i dont say that i follow any particuler religion but i believe in a god i believe in something greater than me...also if people actually followed there religons there would be peace...since all religios books around the world at least promote peace an love to each other...its the radiacls who take it to far an start as you say jihads or as they might say crusades...but without religon these people would still be there...still with the radical mentality they would just put it towards another topic...

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anybody who would believe in the existence of a being that is impossible to be perceived is a radical. religion is bullshit. decency and morality are not products of religion, good religion is a product of decency and morality.

all of it has been created by humans. we dont need religion to be peaceful.

Following religion causes wars. Look at the muslims.

following anything can cause wars....the cause of wars really is irrelvent to the fact.....many wars have been fought for lanf or freedom ....an these will continue with or without religion..