life would be like...

[confused453]

So what do you think the quality of life would be like if:

There was no religion on earth for the last 1000 years.

There was one universal religion where all humans were required to practice by law; any refusal or questioning would become a criminal act.

 

[InfidelRiot]

No religion: paradise
One religion: Huxley's Brave New World

 

[Madhuri]

No religion: chaos
1 religion: depends on what the religion is

I personally feel that religion developed due to a real human need. I don't think society easily functions healthily without religion.

 

[confused453]

That's the answer you're looking for, right?

More looking for opinions, I guess. But your answer is satisfactory.

 

[confused453]

No religion: chaos
1 religion: depends on what the religion is

Try possibilities of good/bad/different to you religions maybe? But one of those would be the only religion on earth. So how would our lives be like?

 

[9Westy9]

Not enough information to say one way or another

 

[Madhuri]

Try possibilities of good/bad/different to you religions maybe? But one of those would be the only religion on earth. So how would our lives be like?

I'd say a religion that promotes peace (true peace, not the sort of peace that some religions claim to have and yet continue to justify bloodshedding) like Buddhism for example then I'd say there's a good chance of a relatively nice to live in world.

But if the religion is one that promotes violence, dualism, or with emphasis on sin and condemnation then it would be, as someone pointed out earlier, like the Dark Ages.

 

[Rival]

I think a tolerant religion is healthy.
If there was no religion for the last 1,000 years I think most people would have just come up with one anyway or used Philosophy instead. We may have come further, but religion has often helped to keep up people's morale. I'm with Madhuri - Humans have the need for some form of religion, whether we realise that or not.

One universal religion that must be followed? Now that would be chaos, whether it was peaceful or not. People don't like it when things are forced on them, of course, so dissidents would be normal.

 

[IAMIAM]

So what do you think the quality of life would be like if:

There was no religion on earth for the last 1000 years.

That's why we have politics, just in case religion dies out and we lose having that to fight over.

There was one universal religion where all humans were required to practice by law; any refusal or questioning would become a criminal act.

And this is the child of politics called Government.

Ever try to tell your government no thanks, I'll just live my own way?

LOL

 

[Me Myself]

Not enough information to say one way or another

pretty much it.

Besides I don`t know what on earth would have happened with the psychology or biology of the humankind for something like that to happen.

 

[freethinker44]

Only for the past 1000 years? I don't think much would have changed at all. Our cultures would be a little different probably, but I think we would be about the same level of progression.

Now, if we could go back another 1000 years and erase the dark ages, I think we would be 1000 years more advanced than we are now.

As far as wars and politics, I don't think there would be much of a change. War and politics is part of the human condition, they only seem religious in nature because they are wrapped in a religious shell. The core is all human though.

 

[jasonwill2]

Only for the past 1000 years? I don't think much would have changed at all. Our cultures would be a little different probably, but I think we would be about the same level of progression.

Now, if we could go back another 1000 years and erase the dark ages, I think we would be 1000 years more advanced than we are now.

As far as wars and politics, I don't think there would be much of a change. War and politics is part of the human condition, they only seem religious in nature because they are wrapped in a religious shell. The core is all human though.

This.