But I see no reason why religion wouldn't exist. (Reply #23)

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Fri May 18, 2018, 08:05 PM

Voltaire2 (10,129 posts)

23. But I see no reason why religion wouldn't exist.

Again the question is not directly about belief in gods.

There are two possibilities: we live in a world where gods exist, or we live in a world where gods do not exist.

For people who are atheists, the answer is simple: a world without gods would be exactly like this world.

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60 replies	Author	Time	Post
What if gods never existed? [View all]	Voltaire2	May 2018	OP
Maybe...	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#1
Why, then, do atheists not feel that way?	MineralMan	May 2018	#2
Plenty of theists believe atheists do feel that way	Mariana	May 2018	#9
I know. But we don't feel that way. We understand	MineralMan	May 2018	#10
I am not arguing for religion	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#14
I didn't ask about belief in gods.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#3
I'm sorry	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#15
The poster merely clarified the question for you	Mariana	May 2018	#17
I was just trying to make the question I asked clear.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#19
To quote Antonio Porchia	Snotcicles	May 2018	#52
Religions pit groups of people against	Duppers	May 2018	#13
like it is now..	LSFL	May 2018	#4
...	Voltaire2	May 2018	#7
I wouldn't have had to sit through...	Liberalhammer	May 2018	#5
Not necessarily.	Mariana	May 2018	#11
Coitus wouldn't wake up the neighbors	Major Nikon	May 2018	#6
Omfg.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#20
There are no gods.	BigmanPigman	May 2018	#8
I think the question is a good one just the way it is.	Mariana	May 2018	#12
for those who believe gods exist the	Voltaire2	May 2018	#21
Arn't gods just a construct of the human mind?	mitch96	May 2018	#16
Well I think they are, but other people think	Voltaire2	May 2018	#18
A world with out a god...hummm	mitch96	May 2018	#22
But I see no reason why religion wouldn't exist.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#23
You obviously liked my post.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#24
Your question implies that gods exist.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#25
Nope. Let me clarify.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#26
Understood.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#28
Well sure. I think it is vanishingly unlikely	Voltaire2	May 2018	#45
Voltaire disagreed. eom	guillaumeb	May 2018	#59
Well no. Again you seem to think the question	Voltaire2	May 2018	#60
In other words...	Major Nikon	May 2018	#58
Exactly as you are experiencing it now	RockRaven	May 2018	#27
Or...........	guillaumeb	May 2018	#29
it's all I have evidence for or reason to believe	RockRaven	May 2018	#33
I understand your position. eom	guillaumeb	May 2018	#34
Right	elleng	May 2018	#36
Depends what your definition of existed is.	Sneederbunk	May 2018	#30
Probably be a lot fewer wars nt	doc03	May 2018	#31
Fewer Charleton Heston movies.	progressoid	May 2018	#32
As it does.	elleng	May 2018	#35
We wouldn't have Bach's Mass in B Minor	thucythucy	May 2018	#37
But what about Wagner!!??	edhopper	May 2018	#40
Well, yeah, not to mention all that awful "Christian Rock."	thucythucy	May 2018	#42
And we couldn't collect these	edhopper	May 2018	#51
Yikes!	thucythucy	May 2018	#53
Those are creepy as hell. Just saying. nt.	Mariana	May 2018	#56
Why? Religion does not require that gods exist.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#43
Quite right.	thucythucy	May 2018	#49
I don't think you know how art works	Cartoonist	May 2018	#48
You mean what if men never invented gods.	gibraltar72	May 2018	#38
No. I mean if it is a fact about the world.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#46
It would look exactly the same	edhopper	May 2018	#39
I think it would be a vast void	thinkingagain	May 2018	#41
Again you are referring to belief in gods.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#44
Maybe you can tell us how you think it would be different	thinkingagain	May 2018	#47
I think this world is exactly that: a world	Voltaire2	May 2018	#50
Better.	Snackshack	May 2018	#54
Man would conger up a different loophole to escape responsibility for being inhumane. nt	Snotcicles	May 2018	#55
Exactly...	NeoGreen	May 2018	#57

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