...reality would be so much clearer to everyone and science would have advanced by a huge amount.

In general terms, the world would be a much better place, but we would be deprived of some magnificent art and music.

who would own all the prime real estate around the world?

we'd still find something to complain about

Women would be in charge! LOL

I wouldn't have had to join a website specifically geared towards people who don't believe in order to find someone I may actually have a chance at being with longer than a year.

Well, isn't that a pretty simple question... maybe not.

We know that Religion, definitely not Christianity, was the hub of activity in the first known settlements of people. Perhaps they got together for trade or other reasons but religion left a mark. It left buildings, statues and monuments. They built temples and people came from great distances (for the time) to visit these religious settlements. One could be said that religion was a driver for social activity in early mankind. What would have happened if it didn't occur? We might have developed civilization very differently. Was it religion that inspired war? Probably not. We are too aggressive by our own nature and war is part of a tribal survival technique. We surely would have different reasons for war. Perhaps, we would still be fighting tribal wars where we only would side with our own tribe. Never finding common ground outside of our tribe that religion could give us.

Maybe we're nearly at the same point but we got here differently. At first, developing slowly because of our diversity but without the chains of religion we grow exponentially. War slowly getting eliminated and in order to provide security we group together. No Dark Ages. Logic providing a basis for fighting famine and plague. We might be in a better position to move forward but essentially at the same place.

... I wouldn't be who I am.

We would be a thousand years ahead of where we are now in the sciences.

… I wouldn't have felt so guilty as a teenager masturbating Sunday mornings before church.

the world would be a better place and we might actually have peace and harmony with logic and reason progressing man forward. I can dream of a secular society.

Oh, and schizophrenics wouldn't have a place to hang out on Sundays........

Science, knowledge, cooperation in world betterment, would be progressed about two thousand years.

... love still would

Stem cell research would have been 10 years ahead of where it is now and, as a result, some of my family members might still be alive.

...progress wouldn’t have been halted for so long

The Middle East's early advancements in math and science would have progressed uninterrupted by a repressive theocracy and Europe's Galileo, Copernicus and others would have perhaps contributed more to those same advancements. ( ok, I'll stop now . . This is my 3rd post to this question but the question started a fire in me . . .:>

The world would b a better place

Years of precious life would have never been wasted on his garbage and he many people who lost their life to this garbage would still be here, possibly still enjoying this life. Also science would have been advanced in a lot more ways.

if religion never existed the world would be a peaceful place to live.

There would have probably never been war.

If religion never existed chances are the Human Race would have already discovered a way to travel between the stars and beyond.

The world would be a better place.

We'd have nothing to talk about.

Your asking the wrong question. The question should be, why does religion exist and why the fuck is it filled with fuck ups?

The Crusades and Inquisition would not have happened. People would find it more difficult to disown family members and drop friends and label others "bad".