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Title: religion
Post by: bigmc on June 04, 2015, 12:48:00 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands
Title: Re: religion
Post by: da_vinci on June 04, 2015, 12:51:01 PM
It cannot not exist. It's in a human nature to search for a "leader" and "calmness" when feeling weak/hopeless. It's a drug/alcohol substitute.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on June 04, 2015, 12:52:33 PM
Sure, religion didn't exist for the ancient greeks.  All they did was invent certain mathematics, science, Architecture etc... Religion came around and destroyed it all.  If anything Religion is more conducive to violence than no religion.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: bigmc on June 04, 2015, 12:57:11 PM
Sure, religion didn't exist for the ancient greeks.  All they did was invent certain mathematics, science, Architecture etc... Religion came around and destroyed it all.  If anything Religion is more conducive to violence than no religion.

that's my take

religion is used to control and programme a certain way of thinking

it leads to intolerance then to violence

humans aren't conditioned to use religion in a productive way

its a giant stick to beat people with either mentally or physically
Title: Re: religion
Post by: Hulk-smash! on June 04, 2015, 12:58:13 PM
Divide & Conquer!
Title: Re: religion
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on June 04, 2015, 12:58:55 PM
that's my take

religion is used to control and programme a certain way of thinking

it leads to intolerance then to violence

humans aren't conditioned to use religion in a productive way

its a giant stick to beat people with either mentally or physically

Exactly.  It's a form of social control.  A set of rules you should live by and the consequences of not following those rules.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: che on June 04, 2015, 01:09:11 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands

If religion didn't exist ,this world would be a mess ,people wouldn't give a fuck , guys like TBombz would be spreading AIDS  killing people everywhere ,guys like MOS would be beating people up for no reason , religion is a good thing my friend.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: loco on June 04, 2015, 01:10:45 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands

Yes.

TA is a flaming atheist.

I would love to slowly lower Navy_Mike into boiling water and then throw in a plugged toaster oven for good measure.

Anything to wipe that stupid grin/wide mouth off the face of the earth.  
Title: Re: religion
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on June 04, 2015, 01:12:43 PM
If religion didn't exist ,this world would be a mess ,people wouldn't give a fuck , guys like TBombz would be spreading AIDS  killing people everywhere ,guys like MOS would be beating people up for no reason , religion is a good thing my friend.

Do you believe religion is why people don't kill each other?  Highly doubtful.  It's the law that prevents it.  Remove all Laws and leave religion and totally chaos will erupt.  Religion won't stop people from hurting others.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: bigmc on June 04, 2015, 01:13:27 PM
If religion didn't exist ,this world would be a mess ,people wouldn't give a fuck , guys like TBombz would be spreading AIDS  killing people everywhere ,guys like MOS would be beating people up for no reason , religion is a good thing my friend.

you've converted me my friend

im off to church

praise the lord for saving me from the aids and killing people  8)
Title: Re: religion
Post by: HTexan on June 04, 2015, 01:14:01 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/2y8xoh/atheist-war
Title: Re: religion
Post by: loco on June 04, 2015, 01:14:45 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands

Yes

Sports Fan Violence
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fan-violence/
Title: Re: religion
Post by: da_vinci on June 04, 2015, 01:23:14 PM
Religion and god gives a "purpose" a "meaning" to life. Without it you have.........well current western world, that doesn't want to reproduce anymore (because it makes no sense, there's no god and other bullshit) and doesn't care about anything too much (because.... why?)
Title: Re: religion
Post by: che on June 04, 2015, 01:27:23 PM
you've converted me my friend

im off to church


Hallelujah


Now repeat this with me

Now I lay me
Down to sleep.
I pray the Lord
My shape to keep.
Please no wrinkles
Please no bags
And please lift my backside
Before it sags.
Please no age spots
Please no gray
And as for my belly,
Please take it away.
Please keep me healthy
Please keep me young,
And thank you Dear Lord
For all that you've done

  AMEN

Title: Re: religion
Post by: BigRo on June 04, 2015, 01:49:43 PM
People would still find plenty of reasons to kill each other as they do now that are not religiously motivated. The essence of religion is the spiritual part which is without a doubt an uplifting influence. The rest can be discarded moving forward.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: wes on June 04, 2015, 01:51:09 PM
Fucking Che!!  LOL  ;D
Title: Re: religion
Post by: bigmc on June 04, 2015, 01:54:09 PM
People would still find plenty of reasons to kill each other as they do now that are not religiously motivated. The essence of religion is the spiritual part which is without a doubt an uplifting influence. The rest can be discarded moving forward.

ireland is a classic example where religion was used to promote violence
Title: Re: religion
Post by: BigRo on June 04, 2015, 01:59:11 PM
ireland is a classic example where religion was used to promote violence

Yes but the issue was/is mainly land.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: bigmc on June 04, 2015, 02:00:53 PM
Yes but the issue was/is mainly land.

I agree

but the banner waved was religious

like I said sometimes its just an excuse
Title: Re: religion
Post by: Skorp1o on June 04, 2015, 02:06:15 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands

WW1 and WW2 had no religious causes but a combination of nationalism, imperalism and conflict of political ideologie.etc

We're good at finding 1001 reasons to eliminate each other. When this Muslim vs Western world feud ends a new one will emerge, either within or in a new form of foreign adversary.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: Lord Humungous on June 04, 2015, 02:06:53 PM
if religion didn't exist

would people blow themselves up

would wars still happen

would we just find another excuse to throw hands

of course money causes way more wars
Title: Re: religion
Post by: _aj_ on June 04, 2015, 02:13:05 PM
WW1 and WW2 had no religious causes but a combination of nationalism, imperalism and conflict of political ideologie.etc

We're good at finding 1001 reasons to eliminate each other. When this Muslim vs Western world feud ends a new one will emerge, either within or in a new form of foreign adversary.

This.

Homo sapiens is good at exactly two things: fucking and killing. Religion is just one of many thin excuses to do one or the other (or both).
Title: Re: religion
Post by: thegamechanger on June 04, 2015, 03:55:12 PM
no without religion there would be no wars, free steroids and everybody would engage in a worldwide posedown at the top of a rainbow

next question
Title: Re: religion
Post by: TuHolmes on June 04, 2015, 05:40:06 PM
Religion or lack there of does not start wars.

People do.

If there was no religion, people would just find another reason to kill each other.

Wars will always happen.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: nzmusclemonster on June 04, 2015, 06:19:56 PM
Bigmc establishing himself as one of Getbigs top philosophers in this thread.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: SuperTed on June 05, 2015, 04:09:49 AM
Sure, religion didn't exist for the ancient greeks.  All they did was invent certain mathematics, science, Architecture etc... Religion came around and destroyed it all.  If anything Religion is more conducive to violence than no religion.

Religion did exist in ancient Greece.
Title: Re: religion
Post by: Kwon_2 on June 05, 2015, 04:32:10 AM
Many of the ancient Greek people recognized the major (Olympian) gods and goddesses (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera), although philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to posit a transcendent single deity.

Different cities often worshiped the same deities, sometimes with epithets that distinguished them and specified their local nature.

Zeus, the controller of thunder and lightning, aka the Ancient Marty Champions.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Bust_of_Zeus.jpg)