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If religion never existed... (finish the line)

Finish the line: If religion never existed...

Here is mine:
all businesses would be open on Sunday.

silvereyes 8 Nov 8
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...reality would be so much clearer to everyone and science would have advanced by a huge amount.

TheRealist asks 'What actually is reality?' Oh the irony lol 🙂

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

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

My point is that much of the music would not even exist without the religious theme (even if written by non-believers).

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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........

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

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

At least you didn't do it in th bathroom at church... or have fun with the ladies at church in the church (well, an empty classroom, lockins, the woods out back, etc.). If there's a Hell and you're headed there, I'm definitely going to be there.

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

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we'd still find something to complain about

lol... true

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Women would be in charge! LOL

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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.

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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.

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I would have saved ten years of my life I spent on a wild goose chase

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World peace might actually be achievable!

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... there would be no wars.

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We'd have one less reason to kill each other.

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The poor would have money in their pockets to buy something to eat. There would be no shame. More people would spend more time living instead of fearing death.

SamL Level 7 Nov 8, 2017
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Humankind would probably have reached the stars by now.

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humanity would never have made any advances, as before science, the men in silly hats helped focus our collective energies for the greater good. Now science has taken over hopefully it will operate for the greater good rather than stone cold logic [in which it could see the lack of use for homo sapiens on earth]

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Ahhh chick-fil-a nuggets would be available on Sundays for my whining spawn ????

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The world, as a whole, would be 1500 years more advanced in science.

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i wouldnt be a "bad person"

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there wouldn't be anyway to control people~

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The world would be a far better place...

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Humanity would be at least a thousand years more advanced.

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there would be fewer wars

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