If, hypothetically, there is no god, how would the world be different?

It would be exactly like it is.

Peace would reign and moral behaviour would return!!

Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!!

Rates for gonorrhea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!!!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!!!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

maybe there was is will be forever a God, but maybe we never spouse to know anything about him or the reason for things to be the way they are. We cannot compare to his knowledge or power, we talking about a power vs. man. religion is made up, fine. but its like you who is drawing a picture on a paper, maybe the image says i am here and was here by myself. beyond the image on the paper is the creator.

Assuming hypothetically that there is a god, it doesn't interact with the earth or it's people, so we get by perfectly fine without it. So switching back to your hypothetical, we'd still do perfectly fine without it.

There would have been less needless murder in his name, and homophobic hatemongers wouldn't be able to hide under the guise of religion.

Awhile ago I found a question that said "Would the world be a better place without religion?" This was the answer, I think it fits closely with this one.

"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/%E2%80%A6

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18%E2%80%A6

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?" ~ Catherine E

People would be more focused on technology and economics and we would be more advanced as a society.

The existence of god is a hypothesis. There is no proof to date :)

God is the attributes of love. Without God the world would be hell .

No hypothetically about it he does not & the world still goes on as it always has.

there would be no world to speak of.

and you would never ask that question because the internet would be nonexistent.

nobody here would exist.