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Originally Posted by Phaseolus Amsterdam..SINCITY!..great place to be an atheist..^_^ | I LOVE Amsterdam! Is "Homegrown fantasy" still around? It is a very cool sidewalk cafe "coffee shop" close to the train station in downtown amsterdam.... I believe "the grasshopper" was close to it as well. Is that still around?
Its a great place to be if you believe in God as well! God has nothing against pleasures of the flesh. Only religion does. Religion doesnt own God...
As far as your original question, yes, the world would be a better place. Religion posits unyielding absolute truths. If the answers about God and spiritual truths were left open to better answers as they came along such as science does, the world would be a much better place. How would one qualify "better answers"? Simple, by asking the question "what would love do?" |
GX, you say the world would be a better place without religion, to some extent I agree with you. What about just simple faith/belief in a higher power?
Most would say the former is an inevitable derivation of the latter, you cant possibly have one with out the other. Let me get down to the crux of the subject... Do you think that the ability to survive with out the knowledge/belief of/in some higher benevolent, omnipotent god/protector is within most human beings? Every one is welcome to answer this question please.