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Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

Actually, we did do something about it when we first learned of the hole (not whole). We determined that ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFCs) were responsible. they were being used for a lot of things, but mostly refrigerants. So what did we do? We outlawed them. Guess what happened? The hole in the Ozone began to shrink! So actually we used science to solve the problem.Also, the hole in the ozone is not the same thing as global warming. Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases (such as CO2) building up in our atmosphere. It's a separate issue.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Ah quite sorry misinformed information wrong point made. It still has no relativity to what this discussion is about. We can not do absolutely anythign about it now. What are they going to do stick a piece of plexi glass up there? Drop it already everyone knows about it by by now.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

No. Without religion, the world would still have war and conflict as a result of colonialism, opposing ideologies, and ethnic conflicts, to name a few things. Although religion is often used as an excuse for war and conflict (usually an angle fed to a populace by its government in order to gain support for a particular initiative), the truth is that colonialism, ethnic conflict and financial gain are what's truly at the heart of these struggles. Religion, in it's truest form, is simply a collection of guidelines for leading what should be a good and morally sound lifestyle. The fact that people use religion as a mask does not change the fact that an absence of religion would not get rid of the true cause of struggle: humanity.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

I don't know but... all that I'm saying is, give a religion free world a chance.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Wake up people!!! Find something to believe in!!!
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

why? explian yourself?and is their realy a need for haste, the point of debate is to hear all sides, to become immersed in all arguments, and then make your decision, based on information that you interpret to mean one thing or another.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

where are you going to go after you die if there wernt any religions we would just be another animal but we arnt
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Four questions. 1) Is there a God?2) Can you oppose religion without opposing God?3) If the world "had no religion", what would it have? We would either languish in ambiguity with regards to the question of where the universe came from (assuming that it had a start point somewhere in the past a.k.a. Big bang) or we would just have an anti-religion religion. 4) Is it possible to debate this question based on what little we know of the religions being raised?
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Here's some food for thought. Many of the opposition's arguments are founded on objective morals. The very fact that we all agree that things like honour killing etc. are inhumane and cruel. Yet, that we all abide by this similar innate conscience to deem the actions of others as ethical or unethical, to me, is indicative of the existence of a moral God, hence the existence of morally aware creation.The real question is, can religion be seperated from God? If a religion comes about by divine revelation, the world cannot be a better place without religions if God cannot reach out to humans. All we'll see is increased depravity and immorality.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

If there was no guns in the world people would just commit murders and other crimes with other weapons.The world still had wars, murders, theft, rapes and other crimes before guns so its no as if gun introduced all the crime and war to the world. With or without guns, people will commit crime!
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

No absolutely not. Religion is the base of individual morals. Without morals the world would be more corrupt than it is now, which isnt that drastic of a change to be honest, but that is a differnt debate. Religion debatable or not is needed to keep morals intanct and differnt individuals raised correctly. Severely debatable or not Religion is needed in the world and it would change nothing for the better.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

So you don't think we can use reason to determine morals? Do you need a 2,000 year old book to know that killing or hurting someone is wrong? I think that people are very capable of determining the basic difference between right and wrong without religion.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Yes I believe we are prefectly capable of that now after the influence of religion even not directly just hearing about it,but to at first put the message into our mind is religion or influence of religiouts people. If you are a child you do not learn what is right and wrong until someone tells you if your parents never had religion or no other individual ever had religion the base of morals would be completely erased. And honestly without religion people would let there instincts take over to not bleieve in a god or gods would make us nothing but animals.Religion is needed for basic regulations for an individual. My opinion is we need religion in th eworld now more than ever.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

Okay, so people who lived before modern religion were animals? The greeks for example never heard of the Judeo Christian God and yet somehow they were able to come up with a set of morals.Also I'm pretty sure you don't understand psychology, otherwise you'd realize that your argument is flawed. There is a part of the brain that helps humans to develop a "moral" sense. When it judges weather we should do something it weighs two factors: "How will this action help me" and "How would I feel if this action was being done to me." So religion isn't necessary, and in fact many of our "instincts" are actually beneficent. The base for our morals is not religion, but instead a basic empathy for others.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

I said a god or gods. So the greeks still had religion of some sort. Actually I know quite a lot about Psychology. For example there is a frontal lobe that functions as sush but there is also a lobe of the human brain that holds in that inate ability for survival that sifts through all the information given and something that poses a threat that makes an individual angry it swells to a larger size than the frontal lobe and reacts quicker than such, so the moral lobe is not always succesful and without influence of religion or regards to a more importnat figure than human begins the morals would be eradicted and would just rely on that not always succesful moral lobe, so in reality without religion corruption would erupts to an even more higher level than it is now. So therefore lack of religion would not not make the world a better place.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

Well, who came up with the ideas for the Gods? I mean somebody had to create the religion, so obviously he could figure out morals. The same is true with all religions, and laws. Whoever created them obviously must have had some sense of right and wrong otherwise no religions would have been created in the first place.If a part of your brain swelled you would die. The frontal lobe does allow us to process rational thoughts, and through those thoughts we can figure out what is moral and what is immoral. Pick any topic, and using reason you can figure out if it's okay to do it.Religion cannot be questioned and therefore many of the things religion claims are "immoral" have no basis.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

History has an answer. The Sumerians had religion, but no form of afterlife, one of the most important aspects of a religion. They feared death, and were sad and depressed because of how grim that is. However, the Egyptians began to envision a colorful afterlife, and they celebrated death. So they built great tombs and temples and decorated them colorfully. And they were generally happier people. So which were better off?
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

No, why would the world be a better place? In the name of God, people have helped each other out in times of crisis. Religions have generally brought peace and good values to the masses. Family values, living better lives, etc... all religious concepts. Sure, religion has also been used to wage wars, but wars will be waged regardless, and without religion there would be something else that can be used to wage wars. Don't blame religions for atrocities done in the name of religions, but blame those who use it (because they can use anything else if religions weren't available).
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Most religion was created, because years ago people wanted answers to things like, why do we have seasons. They created gods to answer these questions because they didn't understand the science behind it.Chritianity (including Chrisidelphian-ity if that is a word) is based of fact, belief and experience, and was created by Jesus to give people hope instead of eternal death in hell after life on Earth. Religion (Chrisianity included) is merely beliefs people have to give them hope, security and answers, which gives reasurance. People though have twisted religion, thinking it makes them holy, and killing people for it.The bible states "love your enimies" and "do to others as you wish to be done to yourself." Religion gives hope and reasurance and makes the world a brighter place.Unless idiots twist it into an evil mess.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

If you arent religious, you have no idea how many non profit organizations help those in need. Without those the world would fall apart.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Religion regardless if it existed or not wouldn't change anything, because religion is a mindset created by culture. It is a way to explain things that humans have no answers to. If I could say it would make no difference if you worshiped a god or what have you. Your Life is a constant and the only thing that changes is the way you choose what you do. Consider it as a number of variables. If I chose variable 1 over the others, then I would be here rather then if I took the other choices. Religion is based on culture and mindset, therefor you would find no difference as many to this day are non-religious. I hope this helps.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

I absolutely think that the world would not be a better place without religions. That is because religion is not what makes the world a worse place, what makes the world a horrible place is the people that follow the religion. That is because of the fact that not all people are the same, for example, in Islam you can find people that are very normal, yet there are others that do harm to huge amounts of people.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Hell no! Do you have any idea what people in general will become without Christianity. Not any other religion, Christianity! The Messiah fullfillmemt of Judaism . Turn on the TV and ask which you would rather have?The Louisiana flood victims, they were saved off of rooftops, and lost everything. And these people were smiling at each other, helping one another, talking about things that are more valuable than their things. Ready to rebuild together.Then you go to Black live matters, lgbt, protesters, disconnected cold self centered hateful screeching demons holding all those people captive to their miserable mindset. One is a community infused with faith and in a great state of health.The other is an example of a state of poor health and sickness.Yeah I want more of the 2nd group in my community!
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

I think religion is necessary for the human race. What causes conflict are fanatics that do not accept different views.I think the perfect solution will be to have one single religion in the whole world. That way people will have some direction of what is good or bad, but there won't be disagreements, and there will be peace on earth.But obviously this is unrealistic... but also thinking of a world where people do not come up with their own religions is also unrealistic.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

i never heard nor seen a preacher that from religion x promotes the religion Y,all i heard from each preacher from diffrent religions are that they are the ONE,that they are the true gates to heaven,some of them even heard off crticizing other religion,so who do you think that thought or gives the idea of a "fanatics"its like they teaching us to close our minds to other different views...can see now that religion is a big business,a great way to multiply there cents...they preventing us to listen to other religions that might invite us to leave the present religion,just imagine how many membrs we could invite to come wid you to the new religion,thats a thousand of donations/contributions already,will just fly away from them...its like a MLM/networking business,invite and invite then baptist...people are intelligent enough to know whats good and whats bad,they need freedom not dictators.peace start with in our selves,peace is like a diseases could spread and be contagious...how well idk...lol...ill stick to the religion named createdebate...
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

i happen to take the complete opposite, i believe that religion must be abolished in order for the human race to survive.religion is an educational retardant, under the influence of religion, humans are able to accept talking snakes, as apposed to abiogenesis.niether are definitive, the difference is one source is thousands of years old, says we rode dinosaurs, is very contradictory, and suggests that their is an omniscient and omnipotent being, who contradicts himself by being a malevolent, torturer.the other source has prime data to support it, is beleieved by most scientist, and other academic scholars, and doesn't discredit other widely accepted sciences, like carbon dating.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

Everyone has "religion". Even atheists. You need to define the word before you can have this argument. Religion means more than God, gods, or dog. Religion is the belief of "EVERYTHING that exists, and everything that doesn't, and how it all fits together".Based on that, you then plan the smartest, and the best way to live your lifetime. Everyone needs a game plan, or you won't last in the game very long. Next step, define "lifetime". The beginning and the ending of the "existence" of a "lifetime".Oh this post...FTW !!
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

You're confusing Religion with Philosophy. Religion, when you cut away the mythology and fanaticism, is basically philosophy gone horribly astray.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

And leveraged by governments for their inherent social control abilities.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: Yes of course

Well then, don't give any government that lever unless you want to give government social control.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

What could be done to prevent politicians from appealing to religious mindsets? Collusion between candidates and religious figures is common and well-known.
Debate: Would the world be a better place without religions
Side: No

I am not convinced that there is much difference at all between philosophy and religion. I suppose the distinction I would make is that religion deals with elements of philosophy that we accept and wish to propagate.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

I am hesitant to say that "the world would be better without ALL religions", but then I do not claim to have the authority or knowledge to choose which should go and which should stay.However, religion has many things associated with it that I am opposed to. Faith being presented as knowledge. A tendency to fight with and even destroy those of other beliefs. A reluctance to accept new information. Occasional political motivations. And on and on.On the other side, I see no proof that religion has any indelible advantage that can not be obtained through other sources. So it does seem reasonable to me that the world would be better off without them, yes.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: No

On the other side, I see no proof that religion has any indelible advantage that can not be obtained through other sources. So it does seem reasonable to me that the world would be better off without them, yes.Through what sources then? Religious laws are what determine morals of societies. So are you saying without God that humans would develop morals. I am intrigued to see what theory you have for morality without religion.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

First off, a truly immoral society would not be stable one. All of the morals that keep turning up over and over in societies regardless of religion foster cooperation and successful group interaction. Simply put, they are better than the alternative, more logical, keep you on people's good side, and most (although obviously not all) people know this. Its not too hard to imagine wise folk in the ancient tribes showing people exactly how their immoral behavior is making things worse.But it gets better.Morality is genetic:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?_r=3&ref=science. Not to mention, there are a number of species of animals that display moral behavior. Yet none of them have religion.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

I do see a point in people who say that religion was valuable as a placeholder for gaps in scientific knowledge. The problem was that religion didn't merely keep the seat warm for scientists; it often actively opposed scientific progress. Religion had its use, but it was hardly the best tool for the job. Some sort of inner tranquillity and ambition that allowed a person to accept that they knew very little about the world, and drive them to discover more, would be far better. It would accomplish the same job but without feeding people false ideas, restricting people's urge to question and test their beliefs, or providing fuel for zealots to spread hatred and violence.Today, religion still helps explain the unexplained, e.g. "Does life have intrinsic meaning?" "What happens after death?" It's also useful for providing moral and emotional guidance. But again, it's hardly irreplaceable. Religious tenets like the Ten Commandments help you to live a moral life, but you can easily be moral without religion. Similarly, religion is not necessary to find your life meaningful or to get over hurdles like bereavement.If everyone's religious beliefs could be removed and replaced with a superior secular alternative, I would say that would make the world much better. (I also think it's doable, but it will take time.) But a world in which religious beliefs are simply sucked out leaving a vacuum behind would leave far too many people psychologically stranded, like taking away a lifejacket from someone who can't swim.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: No

If everyone's religious beliefs could be removed and replaced with a superior secular alternative, I would say that would make the world much better.The secular alternative is anarchy and there is no morals or governmental rule. Without the laws of God, no one would care about anyone else. Murder would be acceptable as well as sexual crimes and theft. God is the one who gave us morals. Most humans would give into the temptations and do evil things.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

Empirical data shows that governments can be religiously based, but do not need to be. Many countries in the world have entirely secular governments. And even in countries that don't, the government still attempts to delineate clearly between church and state - e.g. the US and UK governments. So far there is little sign that secular government results in anarchy, or that non-religious people have no morality. Plenty of philosophical stances on moral issues are not based on religion.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

I would say yes because people wouldn't have to fight over what religion they are.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

Just take a look at the Middle East and you'll see what happens when religion is allowed to have too much control...
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: No

Religion is not the cause for the violence there, its just a bunch of stupid people who use religion as an excuse, if they didn't use religion they would use science as an excuse wahtever they could think of
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

Religion is not the cause for the violence there, its just a bunch of stupid people who use religion as an excuse, if they didn't use religion they would use science as an excuse wahtever they could think ofReally now?
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: No

That article doesn't prove anything.You simply confirmed the argument that you were disputing.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

That article doesn't prove anything.You simply confirmed the argument that you were disputing.Maybe you didn't read it all the way, but he was recently assassinated by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan because he was, according to them, a blasphemer. Sectarian violence brought to us thanks to religion.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: No

Just because the man is Catholic doesn't mean he was killed for it. He criticized a political policy put in place not because of religion but rather as a political move to exercise greater control over the people. The political view was criticized and threatened so they killed him.
Debate: Would the world be better without all religions?
Side: yes

Just because the man is Catholic doesn't mean he was killed for it. He criticized a political policy put in place not because of religion but rather as a political move to exercise greater control over the people. The political view was criticized and threatened so they killed him.He was killed for blasphemy. The assassins stated that outright. Blasphemy is a religious crime, it has no other purpose.Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 1968 – 2 March 2011)[1] was a Pakistani politician and elected member of the National Assembly from 2008.[2] He was the first Federal Minister for Minorities[1] from 2008 until his assassination on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad.[3] Bhatti, a Roman Catholic, was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the only Christian in the Cabinet.[4] Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for his killing and called him a blasphemer of Muhammad.[5]