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In response to "DC religious leaders against Gay Marriage are meeting with members of Congress Wednesday "to get help gighting God's war" -- (link)" by MDH

I wonder just how bad off we'd really be if religion disappeared tomorrow. -- nm

Posted by TWuG Dec 16 '09, 10:10

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90% of religion is fine. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:27 18
- flip it, reverse it. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:28 17
  - (like, the music and the architecture has been pretty good) -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:32 13
    - The charity? The community leadership in general if not on some specific issues? The general sense of instilling of good values? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 16, 10:34 12
      - None of those are religion-specific. I'm atheist but I give to charity, am a leader in my community and try to instill good values in my children and - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:35 6
        
        You don't need religion, but organized religion *is* directly responsible for much good in the world and that shouldn't be ignored. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 16, 10:39 2
        
        Just because they do good doesn't mean that if religion "went away" that good would go away as well. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:42
        
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        I don't think anyone is claiming religions have a monopoly on charity, or that they invented them. - Inigo Dec 16, 10:38 2
        
        why do you assume the individual efforts would go away? -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:39 1
        
        A lot of soup kitchens are funded by religious organizations. - Inigo Dec 16, 10:41
      - strictly speaking, you don't *need* religion for any of those things to happen. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:35 4
        
        You should invent something that will do that. - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:36
        
        You don't need religion to happen for any of the bad stuff either -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:36 2
        
        nor does religion neccesarily prevent the bad stuff from happening. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:39 1
        
        Sure - sometimes it helps prevent it, other times (unfortunately) it helps encourage it -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:40
  - 90% of fines are religious? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:28 2
    - The fine of religion is 90% - Roger More Dec 16, 10:29 1
      - This is a dan brown anagram, I know it! -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:30
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I wonder just how bad off we'd really be if science disappeared tomorrow. -- nm - nubby Dec 16, 10:22 1
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Charity would suffer badly. -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:22
For the people whose religion is a major part of their lives, they'd be pretty bad off. -- nm - Inigo Dec 16, 10:19
It's A Wonderful Atheist Life -- nm - Frank Capra Dec 16, 10:14 4
- I didn't say "belief in God". I think it's quite possible to be a theist and not be religious. -- nm - TWuG Dec 16, 10:16 3
  - Surely you can't expect to type what you typed and expect people not to take it that way. -- nm - nubby Dec 16, 10:24
  - it's like Big-R and Little-r religion ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:20 1
    - ~gimme some of that old-time religion~ -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:24
"I'm going to use the full power of the black church to kill this bill. I feel pity for those who voted for this bc they have defied the will of God.. - MDH Dec 16, 10:13 1
- Ugh. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:14
We'd have no morals and it would be nonstop sex sex sex. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:13 4
- so we wouldn't be bad off at all, you're saying? -- nm - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:14 3
  - We'd explode when we all orgasm'd at the same time. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:33 2
    - a true globalgasm! - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:35 1
      - *goes to look up who this is* -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:37
I can't imagine. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:13 2
- It's easy if you try. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:13 1
  - *nice* -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:16
not all religions, just the bad sh!t. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:12 11
- If all the religions just up and disappeared one day, there would be a lot of people left with nothing better to do than scratch their ass and screw. - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:14 10
  - if all the world's religions disappeared, it would be human nature to create new religions to replace them. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:17 9
    - but we would be left with *science*. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:18 7
      - And science has developed theories that religion is part of human nature -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:20
      - and still, science is limited by our ability to perceive the universe. As long as our minds can conceive of something outside of that, there will be - znufrii Dec 16, 10:20
      - (And I guess scientology would be left behind in this religulous rapture ... being a giant con, and not a real religion ...) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:19 4
        
        scientology is the perfect example of what we would come up with. - znufrii Dec 16, 10:27 3
        
        I was thinking more of Populous-levels of pagan idol worship, to start with, but sure. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:28 2
        
        (Also, the Church of Oprah and the Church of Star Trek) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:28 1
        
        you've hit the nail on the head precisely. - znufrii Dec 16, 10:31
    - (which would be my prime opportunity to start my own) -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:18

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