Would the world be better off without religion? Please give a reason.?

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Yes, lots better off. A reason? One less reason to kill each other.

At this point in our evolution? Yes. The original reason for religions was to help explain things that couldn't be easily understood, and give people a sort of inner peace about their deepest fears (death, for example). Over time, it changed. As more and more was explained through use of the scientific method (one of the greatest tools of explanation ever devised), religion became more about power and control, because the people who originally 'had all the answers' were being displaced by the people who had answers and experimental proof for their answers. We've reached a point in the last 100 or so years where religion is no longer necessary for its original role, and is a hindrance to further human progress.

biblical wars.

Crusades.

WWII - 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

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.

- Adolf 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

George W Bush started FIVE wars in less than eight years stating each time that it was his "God Given Duty” and on September 16th 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!

The Islamic violence goes right back to a dispute over who had spiritual authority over the Muslim community after the death of the prophet Muhammad in what is called the “fitna” which translates as temptation or trial and caused all the discord within Muslim community.

Shi’ite Muslims believe that authority was vested in his family; the Sunnis look to the sayings and actions of Muhammad as well as the Koran.

The extreme sectarian violence has been brought about by Al-Qaeda Which while being exclusively Sunni deliberately set Shi’ites and Sunnis to kill each other in Iraq. Sadly more Muslims die by Muslim hands each month than were killed by the invading forces in the war!

Hamas also kills far more Muslims than the Israelis ever have!

Over thirty five Muslims a week were being killed by Muslims but in the last few years it has frequently been over a hundred a week and is currently several thousand a week!

Whether it is a Danish Cartoon, book of fiction , a snippet of film or some other excuse, Muslims hit the streets around the world rioting, looting, burning and uttering death threats!

Nearly all the Muslim countries are seeing Muslims attack Muslims destroying homes, businesses, infrastructure and targeting women and children particularly showing the extremists must surely be trying to turn Muslims into primitives living in caves and mud huts so they can be controlled more easily!

Syria, Iraq and so many other Muslim countries are self destructing

All that is required for evil to triumph over good is for good men to do nothing Evil can triumph only if good men do nothing – Edmund Burke

So if Muslims want Islam to be a religion of peace and be able to live in peace what are Muslims going to do about it?!

What should concern everyone is that the aims of the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban and all of Islam really is total world domination. Whilst it is currently about civil war make no mistake their ultimate aim is world war three

There can be no such thing as peace whilst religions flourish!

Without religion we wouldn't have worshiped stuff like fire, water, and other elements so we would've been wild animals, moving on in history, we would have people who want to have slaves and there would be nobody to say "God created all men equally." And the world would be full of slavery, it's hard to say for sure,

Maybe we would have been far more advanced, but I think we wouldn't have gotten past the Stone Age.

Without organized religion and dogma? Yes, very much so. Dogma and denominations promote hatred and separatism. Without religious beliefs in general? Perhaps. At present a world with no religion at all is so far removed from reality it's unimaginable.

Morally, for all the absolute harm it's caused to people's lives in there here and now, not to mention the distant past, Yes. There are over 72 major conflicts or mass deaths at the hands of those who would claim to worship a loving god and for not ulterior motive than just that.

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But to examine the entire line of causality, if religion were to be removed (by that I mean the three abrahamic religions) Then all of time would be altered significantly.

World wars one and two would not have occurred. Because of the Christian Crusades, vast wealth was brought back to Europe which undoubtedly kick-started the renaissance, a time of wealth for many people, many of whom would run to claim new, smaller countries, be made unto dukes and duchesses, a mass of politicking and land-grabbing from each other, alliances and enemies, a whole lot of tension building up before a singular Archduke was assassinated, igniting world war one, which anyone with a knowledge of history would know made world war 2 inevitable.

....Except, with the removal of religion there'd have been no inquisition, therefore the renaissance period would have likely started centuries earlier...

The first war might have gone on for longer at an earlier juncture. forced attention to that fact means certain countries wouldn't have been discovered until later by their respective present occupants... Australia might not have become a Prison colony, but rather a bountiful new kingdom for whomever claimed it... A dramatic shift in power for whomever claimed it? or would it become a set of contested territories like early Europe?

And then there's the middle east, who's advances in biological and medical science far exceeded that of the religiously controlled west until Islam gained significant power. Without that variable, The middle east might have become significantly more advanced through trade and research than any of it's neighbors, even to become a social match for any western civilization of this age...

which still leads us to question certain social developments and attitudes, which brings us to consider whether certain lost or decrepit races would have a place, even power in this new world. the Aztecs? the American Indians? would important figures like Gandhi even exist? Would any great leader or president be the same person in the new world? would Abraham Lincoln be famous for anything when there was no slaves to free... would America even have been colonized by the European pilgrims? would it belong to someone else, become a British colony or be left entirely unknown?

Playing with Time travel theory is fun :D

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but for all it's morally ambiguous flaws, Yes, the world would surely be a better place without religion.

we've grown past the philosophical implications of what lies beyond death, we no longer think demons are responsible for sickness and madness. Science is close to answering the questions of our place in the universe and to curing our most life threatening illnesses, we no longer have to beg invisible spirits for such things. many hang onto these for the hope that tey bring, and the comforting half answers to our fate after death (the one big primal fear we might never be rid of), but they are still stuck with ancient hatreds, old prejudices and irrationality... their religions have outlived their usefulness.

Religion isn't the problem - Dogma is. The world would be better without Dogma, because it is dogma that causes people to try to force their beliefs on others. Someone's belief is personal and private - that is their religion. The religion (personal and private) sould remain personal and private; the problem comes in when that belieff becomes Dogma that is thrust upon another in spite of the others personal and private beliefs.

That's how I see it.

Religion makes people commit atrocities because it commands them to. Truth be told if the religion was like Buddhism or Jainism then it wouldn't matter how fundamental a person gets in those, it would just mean they don't believe in harming a fly. However when we look at religions like Christianity you see people doing things like bomb abortion clinics.

Yes. There'd be less wars. Less hate. All we need are good morals in life. Not to believe in some God in the sky who may or may not exist.

No, because it would start a new assortment of discriminations. You already see Muslims discriminated against and they're the second largest. Imagine if they were the minority? People are people and that will never change.