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Does religion make the world a better place?
**helen**
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I know this has already been a hot topic quite recently, one that helped Bumblebee with her essay , but we've just published the results of our religion and spirituality survey that you may well be interested in.
Of those that were willing to answer the question in this thread's title, 22% said that religion makes the world a better place with comments like:
47% believe religion makes the world a worse place to be saying, for example:
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Of those that were willing to answer the question in this thread's title, 22% said that religion makes the world a better place with comments like:
It reminds people of values and boundaries.
Most religions strive for peace.
47% believe religion makes the world a worse place to be saying, for example:
Religion creates natural conflict and disharmony among people.
A lot of wars, arguments and terrorism occur with religion as the excuse.
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I do however think religion did aid the development of early society... but I dont believe it's relevant any more, and is more of a hindrance to the advancement of human knowledge than anything.
perhaps on an individual level it makes people feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but on a global scale it's not constructive, and gives us one more thing to argue about.
Agree.
Na, I disagree and think it's worse when a majority do, like christians and slavery.
Why not? (not disagreeing with you or anything, just curious)
bang. nail. head. i agree with this.
Regardless of the above though I think discussing this issue is frankly bollocks because reducing religion to usefulness/not usefulness is fallacious imo.
A lot of good things have been done in the name of religion too of course. But the bad things still outweigh the good by a large margin. And the the good things that have been done in the name of religion (charity, goodwill, morality, etc) are by no means exclusive to religion.
I have no problem with individuals holding religious beliefs but in its current state organised religion is too easily used for manipulation and to justify and promote wrong acts. Unfortunately I don't see things being much different for centuries to come.
Well it can do. It can also be used to spread hatred. However, religion always claims to promote good, when in reality, it is as amoral as any other belief system. The existance or otherwise of God means nothing. The existance of an afterlife means nothing. It's what you use that belief as motivation to do, that is good or evil. The best way I could describe religion, is completely unnecessary. People use it as motivation to do great things. People use it as motivation to do evil things. People use other forms of motivation to do good or evil things anyway, so the way I see it, if religion was to disappear, not much would change in the grand scheme of things.