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An atheist told me that if there's no religion, this world will be a better place?

Support your answer. What did Christians and Moslems do in ruining this world?

Asked By: Senator - 8/29/2010
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You mean, aside from thousands of years of jailing, torturing, and executing people who don't follow their religion?
1)Theists consistently try to push their religious dogma into our laws, schools, and government.
2)Theists tell people who are dying of AIDS and starvation that using condoms is wrong because there’s a magical being in the sky (God) who just might want to give them a baby, and that they shouldn't do anything to interfere with that magical beings "plans". They promote ignorance of how our bodies work, how pregnancy happens, and how to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancy, as well as teaching our children to fear and be ashamed of their bodies and their sexuality.
3) School boards all across this country still have to spend time and money and resources that are ALREADY in short supply on the fight to have evolution taught in the schools, and fight to keep unsubstantiated, bronze-age superstitious drivel OUT of our schools.
4) Theists are trying to tell our children that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, despite the fact that not only is there not a *single* scrap of evidence to back up such a claim, but ALL of the evidence points AGAINST it. This gives our children the impression that it's OK to not expect someone to provide evidence behind claims that they make, and gives our children the impression that scientific facts can be ignored or denied and replaced with whatever information you want if you don't LIKE what the evidence *actually* tells you. This type of teaching is directly detrimental to our children's learning process.
5) Prop 8 ring a bell?
6) In a lot of areas in this country, if a person is daring enough to actually admit publicly that they are an atheist, they can FULLY expect to be harassed, discriminated against, and even lose their jobs, have their property damaged, and be physically assaulted.
7) Theists changed our nations motto from "E Pluribus Unum" to "In God We Trust", and started printing it on our money in the 1950's. Also, in the 1950's, they added "Under God" to our pledge. We recently had a religious Presidential candidate that said he wanted to change our CONSTITUTION to better reflect his religious beliefs, to the cheers of fundies all over the country. The state of Texas is RIGHT NOW in the process of changing history books to take out information that they don't think gels as closely with their religious beliefs as they would like, including things like taking out information about people like THOMAS JEFFERSON and replacing him with information about John Calvin. And yet, we're constantly hearing theists say that atheists are trying to "change" everything, and that we're trying to "take God out of everything".
8) Theists hold up stem-cell research, because they think a blob of 150 cells...that is the amount of cells in the three-day-old zygotes used in stem cell research...has a "soul". (For comparison, there are 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. The act of scratching your nose, destroys hundreds of thousands of human cells.) They're not against it because they're under the impression that the blob of cells is "suffering", or that it has any sort of consciousness or feels pain, they're against it because they think it has an immaterial, magical entity that is a part of it. It is this completely irrational, superstitious way of thinking that allows people to stand happily in the way of a scientific breakthrough that could save the lives of, and alleviate the suffering of MILLIONS of people all over the world, on behalf of a microscopic cluster of 150 cells. This is just yet ANOTHER in a LONG line of scientific breakthroughs that religions has hindered, and it won't be the last, either.
9) Fundamentalist Christians TODAY, in Africa, are torturing and killing CHILDREN because they have decided they are witches. Here's a source...you can read about it for yourself.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/18/nigeria.child.witchcraft/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18/african-children-denounce_n_324943.html

There are a few examples.
Now why don't you tell US even ONE SINGLE positive contribution either of those religions make to the modern world that could NOT exist without them?
Answered By: Catherine E - 8/29/2010
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9/11, Catholic Burnings, Inquisition, Crusades, and general spreading of ignorance. Among many others.
Answered By: God - 8/29/2010
Belfast.
Answered By: Old Man from Scene 24 - 8/29/2010
They brainwash kids
Answered By: Cheesus Crust - 8/29/2010
God is right. They ruin everything.
Answered By: Angry Picard - 8/29/2010
Crusades, 9/11, in england catholics and protestants used to kill each other over religion, so yeah, not good ppl
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^ god is a dick he took my answers after he saw mine lol
Answered By: GHOST BEAR - 8/29/2010
Lol
Answered By: Susan - 8/29/2010
"What did Christians and Moslems do in ruining this world?"

Seriously? No, I mean really? Don't get me wrong, I don't buy the whole "world would be better without religion" thing, but the Crusades, the Salem Witch Hunts, the countless apostates who are murdered every day for leaving their faith. Do I really even NEED to point these out?
Answered By: Red - 8/29/2010
He believes that because he is an atheist.
Answered By: Laura - 8/29/2010
Geez, where do I start?

Ever hear of the Salem witch trials?

What about the Inquisition where thousands of women were tortured, raped, and then burned alive--SLOWLY--in the name of god?
Answered By: Red Doll Shoes - 8/29/2010
Crusades... Enough said. I dont think any atheist would support holy war
Answered By: Ryan - 8/29/2010
Christians = Dark Ages, Crusades, superiority complex.
Muslims = Theocratic societies in which scientific progress is stifled and apostasy carries the death penalty.

Need I go on?

@Shelby
Do you realize you just set up a straw man in defense of religion?
Answered By: Emotions Blind Your Logic - 8/29/2010
There are some religions that do not hurt anyone, Like Buddhism. Other than that I see no other religion that doesn't kill in the name of their God. Then again I would consider Buddhism more so of a philosophy, in which people follow. But there are so many killings in the name of people's religion it is sad, makes you think if there was a God would he want people to really kill in his name. I doubt this if he is so great, and good. Anyway I would say this person is right, but then again I do not believe it is the religion all the time it is those people who misinterpret it in the wrong way. Just a thought.
Answered By: Dime D Whaley - 8/29/2010
Moslems lol
religion, in general, has lead people to do some crazy, stupid stuff. i don't feel like going into detail on this one, but i think google might be a little less lazy than i am.
Answered By: Conquistadora - 8/29/2010
Never though I would say this...but i believe what god says.
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Answered By: I am never wrong - 8/29/2010
If there was no god man would just make something else up to worship, look at the elvis and micheal jackson worshippers. lol

I love when people say the crusades religion was just propaganda for the government at the time to obtain more land and steal gold. Man kills people not religion.
Answered By: lostrelic - 8/29/2010
I don't think that's true. At least religious people have a reason to be the best person they could be during their lives. They want to be good people so that they could end up in a better place after they die. If people didn't have that fear, who knows how lazy people would be with "being good people", you know? The only way it would be a better world without religion is that it would eliminate religious arguement.

I mean, I'm atheist, but that's the way I see it.
Answered By: shelby - 8/29/2010
Yeah, right. Vladmir Lenin said that right before he slaughtered 300,000 Christians and clergy, and then put up a 300 foot statue of........himself.

Atheism has done mucho to destroy life on this planet, just as the Vatican instigated Inquisition did.

Both should be wiped off the face of the planet.
Answered By: Mythos - 8/29/2010
Oh I don't know, wars, pointless deaths, social tension because the fanatics think they are right, etc. Quite honeslty, I think people should keep religion to themselves and quit forcing their beliefs on others, it's a personal thing, not something that needs to be controlled by others. Ever heard of freedom of religion people???
Answered By: jess - 8/29/2010
Dont forget about the Dark Ages. Nearly 1000 years of total scientific stagnation.
Answered By: Landon - 8/29/2010
It's pretty obvious. No one would have a reason to kill someone else for thinking their religion was the only one that should exist.

No wars!
Answered By: mochiee - 8/29/2010
What I think we truly need to get rid of are fundamentalism and political religion. Fundamentalism (of almost any kind) is just not right. I remember reading one of electronica artist Moby's essays in the booklet of his big album Play that said something along of the lines of "admitting we're wrong is a way of growing." Fundamentalism cannot admit it's wrong. A perfect system cannot exist because we're always learning and expanding. And look at the dangers of fundamentalism. Witch burnings, the crusades, the inquisition, abortion-clinic bombings, 9/11, ban of same-sex marriage, ban of stem-cell research, child molestation, sexism, polygamy cults, racial segregation, slavery.... need I go on? The last thing that needs to happen is for religion to be brought into state more than it already is. Should it truly matter whether or not Obama is a Muslim, or should it matter if he can actually benefit the country and pull the United States out of it's record-breaking defecit? Glenn Beck on 8.28 would not stop talking about God. George W. Bush endorsed prayer for Katrina victims, rather than actually get them the help they needed. Entire campaigns have been run based on religion. A governor in Arkansas ran one of his campaign ads by looking into the camera and saying "The most important lessons in life are in this book right here" while holding up the bible. Should religion be the one running our world, or intelligence.

I accept that others will believe in God and that is fine with me, so long as the above does not happen.
Answered By: Austin Gremlin Is Your New God - 8/29/2010
Well, I too am atheist, but the opinion I'm about to share is something I've also felt before I was atheist:
History can prove this to be pretty true -- Christian crusades were a common thing hundreds of years ago. Sometimes it wasn't all religion -- it'd sometimes be other empires p*****g the others off.
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Muslims in recent years, but long ago aswell. Apparently, when terrorists are supposed to go on a suicide bomb mission, they are told they will go to heaven for what they're doing. But terrorists fall under a classification of bad people. There are good Christians and Muslims out there, you and your friend need to keep that in mind.
I sort of agree with this atheist. On the "world being a better place part"... sort of. I sometimes think about what the world would be like if there was no sort of religion, but another reason I'm atheist is because I don't want the burden of worrying about whether or not I'm going to Hell, or just the matter of there being better things I could be doing on a Sunday.
That said, I don't think Christians and Muslims are totally ruining this world. There has been damage and history (good and bad) made because of them, and religion has, admittedly, played a certain role in shaping the world we have today.
Answered By: Ayencee♥Eminem! - 8/29/2010
If there was no religion atheists would have to find something else to object to and no it would be a worse place than it is now with human objection to God as their king.
Answered By: Grant N - 8/29/2010
Crusades!!!

Hitler:-

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. - Adolf Hitler

Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. - Adolf Hitler

George W Bush started FIVE wars in less than eight years stating each time that it was his "God Given Duty” and in 2001 even called it a Crusade!!

Not his duty to the electors!!

Not his duty to America!!

Just his duty to keep slaughtering heathens for his god!!

Surely enough said!!!
Answered By: Sage - 8/29/2010
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