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I think it is time to ban religion on Earth.

Religion brings war, division, ignorance, hate and it holding the progress of our civilization.

Ban people? You would have to if you banned religion. People are religious beings. Even those who say that they don't have religion, simply have a religion of non-religion.

Religious writings are the source of good moral behavior for people to follow, far more than any secular writings.

If you ban religion, you would also have to ban science, or your banning wouldn't be complete.

Sounds like you want people to become like the picture of primitive pre-history, or maybe become like the unreasoning animals.

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I think that you don't understand this issues at all.
Country politic leaders started many wars and conflicts.
So, following your logic, we should ban all countries on the planet earth.
Also, many families started wars and conflicts, so we may ban families as well.
In reality, religion is institution created by man.
Country is also created by man.
Wars and conflicts starts individuals, not countries or religions.
Do you think that anybody ever asked ordinary people, members or citizens of any country or religion, if they agree with the war?
 

We need to abolish religion, not ban it. There's a difference there. Countries that claim to have banned religion have merely replaced it with the worship of the state. North Korea is a great example of this.

There are groups out there trying to do this.

They are trying to abolish religion in the only way that you can. See to it that all people everywhere die.

When you look at the definition of religion, all people are included whether or not they have a formal religion.

Is that what you really want? The destruction of all people?

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Actually, the most secular countries in the world are the ones that fare the best on both an economical and human rights standpoint.

I can't imagine a country that uses the Bible as the source of its morals/values, we have already had that, Christianity gave us the Dark Ages where the Church banned reading for over a thousand years.

I think better to dont abolish it is better to unite all religious into one instead of banning them or abolish..
I hope that it will happen in the future.. because of this all people in the world will be one.

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Christians have your list of priests guilty of pedophilia and all Muslims are labeled the terrorists, has many killers and politicians who are not religious that kill many people, I think the big evil is not the religion

The big evil is money and power.

Naw.. i think we just need to convert them to the Church of Satan.

That's 'cause secular governments like to rip the property away from their citizens, and then lie about what they have don to other countries.

Christianity of the Dark Ages was in name only, not in reality. It took Martin Luther and other reformers to bring some semblance of truth to the Church.

The best moral laws are found in the last 4 books of the Pentateuch, also known as the Torah.

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Churches steal more from citizens than any corrupt government. There's a reason Joel Osteen is so rich! Of course you bring up the argument: "The Dark Ages weren't really dark! They invented lots of things, like waterboarding!". Classical right winged religious nut argument

Generally, churches don't steal anything. People give to God through the church. In what way does Joel Osteen steal? People know about his wealth, and still donate to God through him.

Why do you think that the Dark Ages weren't dark? It's in the name. And that is why you think that the Church back then was Christian. You believe what they tell you.

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I think it's time to ban breathing. It causes carbon emissions and boosts global warming.

Ban religion by letting people who sit so close together in church wear Ban deodorant.

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Breathing does not incite violence through irrational fear mongering. Nice try though, troll.

(Also, breathing is practiced by all the humans in the world, religion is not)

You can't solve the problem by banning religion. What we need is proper education and a fair wealth distribution. Without those, ban anything as much as you can, we will still get fucked.Take a look at the streets, one dude drives a ferrari while  the other begs for food on the streets.

edit: I am not bashing the ferrari dude but those beggars will be the end of us. They can easily get manipulated by the religions or the other evil cults.

Rather, the problems would all be solved if people all became Bible believing Christians.

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Although I am an atheist, I don't think that all the religions are bad. Oriental religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism are not detrimental to the world peace. On the other hand, the business minded religions (especially the Abrahamic religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) must be banned. They are spreading hatred around the world.

I wouldn't ban it. People have the right to be idiots.

"Ban" would imply that you want to force your views upon other people. No matter how bizarre your views are, as long as they do not intervene with another person's rights, I believe people should have the freedom to follow whatever religion they want. As for people who think Buddhism is peaceful and all, you should realize that in Burma Muslims are being massacred. In the Western world everyone wants to jump the Buddhist bandwagon without really researching it for what it really is; a spiritual way of life.

Its not the religion that is the problem, its the people... Its kind of same as with the guns.

RELIGION is money and power?

Can you define the religion ? or let me ask you "the thing that make you hate religion" ?...

OK, now can you think on issues happened due to this definition & that are not based on religious bases (e.g: more than 1 Million people died in Iraq after the american invasion under the name of "bringing democracy & Human rights to this country)...  

OK, now I want you to think about difference between THEORY (religious, social, economic, political... bases) and practices (how people use these theories in order to acheive their benefits).

Now tell me are you hating the Theory or the Practice

Why ban religion? It symbolizes ones dignity. It is the source of someone's Mora being. Though there is lot of religion we just need to respect their beliefs for us to be respected too. Politics is the reason of war those in position who wants to conquer the world or ones territory.

I had a fight the other day this guy had the cheek to call my goblin a liar >:(..
I said what do you mean my goblin is a liar it speaks the truth..
He said well prove it where is your goblin i said how dare you ask me that just wait till you die then you will find out..
I was fuming that this guy had the cheek to call my goblin names my goblin is the best ever he made the universe i said to this guy..I swear i wanted to kill him..
Then the guy said i know your goblin is a lie because my fairy is the one who made the universe..
I said what a fairy :D :D then i said your fairy is a lie where is your fairy then show me it..

When i said show me your fairy and you are a liar he went crazy and pulled out a knife and went to stab me ..
So i got my sword out and cut his head off and showed it around the street where i live and everybody was all made up because that guy shouldn't of called my goblin a liar and should of believed every word my goblin says..
And who ever on here doesn't believe in my goblin i will kill you or i will send one of my goblin believers to blow them selves up in one of your airports..

Nothing worse than those fairy believers there the worst kind of people they believe in fairy tales how nuts can you get ..
Everybody knows my goblin made this universe and all in it..
And also if you don't cover your head with a shower cap while you pray to the goblin you will get 50
lashes..Goblin law..also a women must cover her chin with black gaffer tape..Goblin law..

There is only one god the goblin god oh how great he is..
Anyone who speaks ill of the goblin god will burn for a thousand years..

Well, at least it's nice to see that you are not out to ban religion.    8)

I funny that you think that without a religion there can't be morals. I assure you that morals and conscience are not product of religion.
I don't want to be good just because there is promise of heaven. I want to be good because that is the correct thing to do.

If religion is the source of your moral being, then you have a really absurd sense of morality. You're basically saying that if there wasn't the threat of eternal damnation, you would not have a sense of morality. Also, the Bible has a wicked understanding of right and wrong. For instance, selling your daughters into slavery, or stealing virgin children as spoils of war is "right", but touching a mountain or picking up some sticks on Saturday are all "wrong" acts, which will result in you receiving the death penalty.

Global warming causes droughts and floods which causes hunger and violence.
Breathing causes violence and should be banned.

Fallacy of false cause. Breathing does not cause violence. Organized Abrahamic faiths explicitly dictate, with specific instructions on how to kill infidels/heathen/gentiles/apostates.

i completely agree with you. religious stuff must be banned in the whole world because those beliefs are the reasons of all the evil stuff on earth. people must believe in science not believe in so called magical things.

Maybe because some of religions are hypocrites. They said they are from god but they dont have solution in societies problem. Only they know is to criticize to the government whose intention is for the good of their country. Bishops are too narrow minded and close minded.

Then that right must exist to other sectors as well. If religious people are allowed to spread hatred about atheists (for example, religious nut saying to a non-believer that he will go to hell unless he accepts Jesus Christ as his saviour), then atheists must also have the same right to criticize the religious people and their beliefs.

Religion Church

FTFY

The Chinese already did.

No they didn't. They simply replaced it with State religion which is more loosely formed in some areas and more strongly formed in other areas than what is generally thought of as religion.

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There will always be debate in many ways about the establishment of religion, especially if you have the intention to ban religion and if you have problems with all of that simply take attitude, does not matter with anything.

This is correct. South East Asian atheism is tricky, because state atheism just seeks to remove all the deities apart from the state itself, which is actually quite worse than what we have in other parts of the world where people practice their religions freely. Ironic isn't it?

So that the State can become the "god" and the high priests (governing officials) get the tax money. At least with Christianity there is the promise of eternal life.

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Read: At least with Christianity you have the same false promises as any other religion. It's ironic you talk about high priests in government positions getting tax money but at the same time, dodging any kind of payment on their own part.

You can guess that if you want. But since life as it is, is impossible (except for the fact that it exists), there is really no way to say for sure that eternal life via the resurrection is a false promise.

Government officials work for their money. So do church officials.

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Bordering on nihilism there. There is really no way to say for sure that eternal life via the Cat in the Hat is a false promise either.

Banned religion? I don't think so. Why would you banned something that makes people to be with God cause they have religion. I know that everyone has it's own opinion about our own religion but not every religion brings what everything you've said about it because in our religion I can't even see that we're gonna bring war, division and so on like everything you said.

A world without religion would be really great , but I think religions may stay forever
in the history even before prophets people created many things to worship , so it's the human nature I guess
all the religions should be replaced with humanity in my opinion

Richard Dawkins famously said "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further"

We cannot ban religion. But I hope someday it will be abolished; simply because people wont need it

The fact that life and this whole universe is impossible with regard to any source we have scientifically found that could explain it, and the fact that all our mankind-created explanations are simply wild stories, the Bible - testifying all the way back to the Beginning - turns out to be the best explanation of our existence that we have.

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Dawkins, along with most of science, simply ignores the scientific proof for God, as well as the example of nature's machinery.

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He doesn't ignore it; there simply isn't any proof of God :) "Nature's machinery" is pure science :)

The absolute only way to get rid of religion is to get rid of people. All people are religious, and religiously minded beings. Even the ones who say that they have no religion, simply have a religion of non-religion. Even the ones who don't think about religion at all, still have a personal religion in their life.

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Nature's machinery is an example for us. We make our machines. Some of them are very complex. Without our making of them, they would never get mad... at least that we have example of in nature.

All of our machinery comes from nature, one way or another, or the example that nature's machinery shows us. All of our machinery is inferior to the machinery of nature.

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Richard Dawkins is a Twitter scumbag. There are way too many of them, but Dawkins deserves an honorable mention because he is glorified by leftists, despite quotes like "Abort it and try again" (On babies with Down's syndrome), and of course his racist ideas.

It depends how you define religion. For most people, religion is something that cannot be scientifically explained. I cannot accept something like that, so in this sense, I have no religion. On the other hand, if you call religion the making of the universe and the laws of physics, then yes, I am a religious person. But in this case, religion is pure science :)

No religion as nothing to do with science..
Lets not get into the religious argument because you do something religiously no no no we have had that one before ;)....

Science has a whole lot to do with religion.

If you go to store, and get a can of Hunt's tomato sauce, where do the scientists tell you it came from?

They say "Walmart." But you could have gotten it from Safeway, Basha's, Kroger, or one of many other stores. You might have gotten it from a food bank.

Big Bang Theory is like this. Science doesn't know that BB was a reality. Many scientists say that it was, but their science could be lacking all kinds of information. Many people believe what the scientists say, that BB is real. They are like the lay-people in church.

If scientists have become smart enough to figure out your receipt, they know where your tomato sauce came from. But, if they are that smart, they would never tell. Because they would know that God created the universe.

Although science has the scientific process which has little or nothing to do with religion, science has become a whole lot more things than the scientific process alone. Science has become a religion.

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It is almost impossible to ban anything in this world, especially something as a religion that can be disseminated very easily if governments of the world cannot stop drugs for example then stopping ideas is out of the question.

Ancient Rome tried to ban Christianity, they persecuted and killed christians. Ancient Rome collapsed but christianity is still here  :)

I generally am a critic of science, the way we have it today, I consider science to be a religion in itself (Keep in mind that I'm not an atheist, I'm actually quite religious).

However, you're essentially saying that your God is the God of the Gaps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps).

First, God isn't my God in the sense that I own Him.

Second, since He is the God of the universe, He is your God as well, even though you might have hidden within yourself your knowledge of Him that we all have in our hearts.

Third, God might be a God of the gaps in a slight sense, if there wasn't a second, far more common, explanation of Him besides science. This second explanation that everyone sees is the machinery of nature.

Fourth, the overwhelmingly universal penetration of the 3 scientific observations that are facts and laws of the universe - cause and effect, complex universe, universal entropy - without anything other then some fragile theories to suggest that one or all of them are not universal facts and laws, shows that there are no gaps.

The existence of God is fact! Belief in the idea that God does not exist is brainwashing or self-brainwashing. It might not be such if we didn't have the evidence of the machinery of nature. But since nature is marvelous beyond all our understanding in its machinery all around us, and since we know from experience all over the place that machines take intelligence to build, Whoever built the machinery of nature fits our definition of the word "God."


I wanted to thank you for, again, giving me the opportunity to show the existence of God to people, by prompting me for a reply to your post.

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Yes, it's true. Did you think why?
Ancient Rome was selfish state, greedy for power, money, luxury life, world political domination etc.
Christianity was greedy for God's love, and loved people around them, helping and supporting each other, was fighting not for earthly domination or money but for eternal, god's kingdom.
It's very obvious why Christianity is still here, after 2 000 years and Ancient Rome is not any more with us :)

In America and many other countries, Latin is the legal language, and many of the old Roman laws prevail.

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Religion is a farce if you ask me.
I think it is said best in the movie that I watched recently "The Evil that men do".
It is said best in the opening conversation between the kidnappers of a young girl.
Watch it to know what they say about religion and how it is for the stupid people of the world to believe and follow to make themselves feel a purpose in life. Without that, they are nothing.

All people are religious people in one way or another, even if it is only in their personal religion. Most people are also a farce. So, you are reasonably right when you say religion is a farce.

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I couldn't agree with you more on that assumption.
But you also know what they say about assuming one's own placement in the world as well. ::)

People want to project what they are not - so they are fake.
The true ones are those that accept with who they truly are.
I think a realist said this.
That is not a religion because it is taking things for what they are in fact and not fiction. And not assuming what they truly appear to be. That in itself is the farce in life.

If we are talking about science then there isnt any proof that God exist but Lot of things that science cant explain. Mysteries that the cant solved. Banning people that is  There are 2 or more Gods! Not religion because religion is where your belief takes place.

I think yeah better to ban religion that really dont know if they are telling the right path.. i think one of the good religion here in my country is in born again.. which is many people are thankful to join in this religious. those islam in catholic should be ban..

When you combine the scientific laws of cause and effect, complex universe, and universal entropy, you find that something made this universe that matches the definition of "God" in the dictionaries.

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but that doesn't mean that it's a christian god. What if it turned out you've been following the wrong religion the whole time and you're doomed to eternity in hell because of it? "We all worship gods that we can't even see but we're destroying the nature that's all around us".
Stop being so ignorant, even tho that's the main characteristic of most religious people.

What would a person have to understand about God or a particular religion to determine that the religion in question was the right one? When you study the Christian religion in depth, and see the power and sense behind it, you might have an idea that Christianity is the best religion. Then when you sincerely ask God to reveal best one to you the, and He overwhelms your spirit with His Spirit, through the Christian religion, you almost don't have any choice.

Check the details about Christianity - where it came from, the unity of the Bible, the history of the nation of Israel, the prophecies in the Bible and their fulfillment, the sense of the Bible, how the Bible fits the facts and philosophies of life, the miracles through all of time, the eye witness reports, how the Holy Spirit  moves you when you do the in-depth study - and you will see that Christianity is the religion of God.

Can you see God in other things? Of course. The fact of the love of God is shown all over the place in the fact that He provides you with all the things of life that you need to live, and enjoyment as well, even though there are times of pain. Christianity answers the questions you have about God way better than any other religion... including the question of which religion God wants you to follow.

All the religions operate through faith. Even living life without a formal religion involves faith, because you don't know from one minute to the next, for a fact what will happen. So, life is lived on faith, just like following a religion is following it by faith.

Why do we live by faith? Because we are so mentally weak that our knowledge of the universe is incapable of seeing enough to know things for an absolute fact. Yet God holds nature to follow many of our more general predictions in life, so we can live in reasonable peace of mind about all the things that haven't happened yet.

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Lmao, I love how you parodied his and Wilikon's exact same style of using 13pt font with a clickbait question title, hahahah.

Hello, guys! Recently I've come across a wonderful article on this topic - http://planetaryproject.com/culture/sintez/ . I recommend you to read it too. I have found those thoughts very useful.

The site looks like another one-world site, trying to combine the various races, and with government at the head.

Planetary Ethics DOES exist wherever people exist. It is said, easily, by saying the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." We all like the idea of having a bit of a social life, while at the same time not being crowded too hard. All we need to do is to apply that desire of ours to all other people, and we have the planetary ethic in place already.

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Well, surprise, you live in one world. You don't live on another planet, about damn time you learned to coexist!

I might agree to you on that one.  It is true that religion separates everyone and divided each one of us.  Because of different perspectives, beliefs, and teachings, every religion thinks that theirs are the best.  Having pushing all their ideas to anyone who do not believe make it hard for everyone to understand the stand of everyone.  The result, a never ending debate and worst war.  They said that if you want a peaceful environment, go to a place where there is no religion.

Being racist doesn't have anything to do with coexisting or not. We both are racist if we don't agree with each other. Government is racist because it wants to be the only other race, and is trying to make all the rest of us to be of the same race.

You can find all kinds of people of different races from around the world, who, if they lived right next door to you, you would want to get rid of, simply because you couldn't stand the way they live.

Keep the races. And keep them separate. But allow them to coexist on the planet.

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So you're about Separate but Equal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal) huh? A Jefferson era segregationist. You would fit in well with 19th century politicians.

Also, there is only one race, the human race. We are all descendants of the same lineage. Even Christians believe that (Even if they believe we are the product of incest).

However, there are different races regarding the customs that different groups in the human race have.

Perhaps you like eating dogs and cats as the S.E. Asians do. Americans don't generally like this idea.

That's the kind of racial things I am referring to. In that sense, the races do exist.

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Wait, what? "You like eating dogs and cats like S.E Asians do. Americans don't like this idea. Therefore races exist"

Do you just type so your username is bumped to the top of this subforum or something?

Wow! You almost copied exactly what I wrote. What kind of a copycat are you?

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i think this is impossible. although yes, religion creates a lot of division and at times hate among people, its effects are not entirely negative. if you think about it, mostly religion at its core tells us about peace and respect. i think people just needs to focus on what their religion has in common with other religion rather than highlighting the differences because this is where misunderstanding begins

Except when it's telling you to kill the disbelievers/infidels/heathens/gentiles, coaching you on the "right way" to sell your daughter into slavery, how non-believers will be tortured eternally in a gruesome manner, etc etc.

You would let your daughter starve to death, rather than sell her into a slavery where she will have to work, but also will eat and live, right?

Better wake up to the warnings that many formal religions give. At least you have the chance to find Christianity and live eternally that way.

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Everytime I see your post, I cringe realy bad, and not just because of how stupid your posts are but mostly because of that little smiley on the end.

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Just for you, it's at the top one time.

Just wanted to confirm that... Would you really let your daughter starve to death rather than selling her into slavery so she could live... if there was no other way?

well i think there's that part in every religion, be it islam or christianism or any else. and then there's also where it teaches us to respect our fellow humans, to share and other positive teachings and i think we just have to focus on those parts. well that's just me though :P

You can see it all over the place in the various informal religions lumped together under the word "secularism."

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Don't mean to sound like a broken record, but you're contradicting yourself. Secularism literally means the rejection of religion.

Secularism is a word. People aren't secular. The closest they come is to have a religion of secularism.

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You have no idea what you're saying. You don't even seem to realize that your stance reflect the very things you blame on religion. Ignorance is not being able to understand or accept others for what they are. Self-proclaiming your ideals as the only way forward and denying others the freedom to live how they want to live is the best way to fuel war, division, ignorance and hate.

Rome is still with us, the many languages that come from Latin, the law system, philosophy, war tactics, even the founding father of the US were inspired by Rome, so while Ancient Rome may not be with us it has left a profound legacy around the world.

I think yes because until now there are too many cases because of religion and I think religion is a virus that is ingrained in humans.

I do not think that religion make war or would love to have a war.  But in a sense of different beliefs with every religion there will be an arguments.  Some said that if you want a silent and peaceful life, go to a place where there is no religion.  Sometimes we are too obsessed with our religion that we will make any arguments just to prove that your religious belief is the best.

I doubt very much that religion would be banned, they need to keep on with the scaremongering to keep you to believe, and down on your knees in your place.

It's not the religion that's the problem, it's the stupid people. Religion is just a catalyst for wars, hate and everything bad that comes with it.

Well what is religion, it just a practice that you follow, rest is humanity. This actually should be issue at all. Dont know why politics play on this game as if they dont have another issue in any country.

all the time religion was used to control people and to make someones power legit. it could be helpful but in wrong hands it spills a lot of blood.

For very good reasons, I have banned myself from religion.
Not a living soul could change my mind  :D

yeah, people will not have the manners and rules, without religion human beings might be like animals, like monkeys

That's a wild religion you have there.    ;D

A closed mind is a dangerous thing indeed. Almost as dangerous as that time the Church banned reading for a thousand years to sustain its power.

Hey what have I told you before, stop with the quoting.
You are not supposed to be doing this at all.

https://i.imgur.com/4iZxZA9.png

And if you meet a dead soul.. will it change your mind? ))

Their pain will be so bad that they will barely be able to acknowledge each other. Since loneliness is part of their "punishment," maybe they won't be able to find each other at all.

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I agree, it's time to ban. But a lot of people will lose the meaning of life. A man accustomed to someone to serve. Even if now prohibit religion, it will be many generations before people learn to be free

i dont think so that it is so easy to east potato, no one can ban religion about 99.9% people are belong to different religions and they are almost ready to give their lives for the protection of their religion. so i think it will be a very very bad experience if some one even think about this.

Religion can't be banned, it can only be moderated. Even in South Korea where there is a ban on religion, they still have underground religious groups...

That's North Korea you're thinking of :P

Don't worry, many have made this error before

If people want to enforce bans on religion, the only way they will be able to accomplish it is if they do it religiously.

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I don't see communism as a religion... but disagree that religion should be banned for various reasons. Like, let's take orthodox christianity since thats a main religion in Serbia. It may have caused a hate towards gay population because of the church but also brings a lot of people and families together with slavas. Also it helped a lot of people to find their way.. Even tho I'm not a religious person I live by the word of Christ.

People in church usually sit very close together. They need deodorant. All that banning religion is, is getting the people to use Ban Deodorant, so they don't offend each other in church.

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I agree with you that having a religion is having different teachings, beliefs, and ideology.  And when asked which is the best religion those who are believer of saints and prophets would state their beliefs and teachings making a very long argument resulting to misunderstanding and worst war.  Thus, making this world so complicated.

i do not think that any one can ban religion, i think it most of the people are involve with different religions and no one will like that some may ban their religion, it will never accept that fact.

I definitely think its time to try it out in at least one westernized country and see how it goes

Religion is high time to ban all over the planet. One of the evils of this phenomenon. And money laundering

Well as much as we all know that religion at times brings hate and division among different culture and beliefs, there are also times when religion does the opposite of that. There are many aspects of religion that promotes peace and respect among people and that aspect, for me should also be considered.

if you read all the religions of the world in exact way then you will find every religion teach us the way of a successful life and all of the religions teach us about love,  peace and forgiveness. Those who say that religion bring sadness do not know about religion.

agree, as long as I know every religion teaches the followers to do the right things. the difference things among the religion are the way the follower pray and their truth about God.

so you are very wrong if you want to ban religion, you will make people irritate and something beyond my imagination

All religion will be banned when The Lord and King Jesus Christ returns on earth. OP, make sure you will belong to him when He returns.

But even before that, the humanistic religion of atheism will be banned by it's own stupidity.

It is already happening. Atheism is in rapid decline.

Cheers  :D

:D :D ATHEISM IS GROWING EVERY SECOND ;D..

Very hard to trick an ATHEIST  ;)..
We do not believe till you prove it to be so ;)

You religious believers are so stupid it's game over for you all ;D..

READ AND WEEP :D..
A recent global survey conducted by National Geographic shows that the worlds fastest growing religion is not Islam or Christianity, but no religion at all – atheism. The study comes in conjunction with Nat. Geo’s new television series “The Story of God” starring Morgan Freeman which travels the world chronicling religious beliefs practiced by different cultures. With the global headlines dominated by the Islamic State, Islamic immigration throughout Europe/Africa and recent religious freedom laws passed in the United States, to the untrained eye it would appear that religion is as strong as ever – but you would be mistaken. In fact just the opposite is occurring and the age old paradigm of piety is quickly shifting.

The study refers to atheists as “religious nones” or people who do not follow or identify with any religion. According to the results, atheism is now the second largest religious affiliation in North America and the majority of Europe. In the United States alone approximately 22.8% of the population now identifies as atheist, up 6.7% from 2007. Furthermore, U.S. atheists now represent a larger portion of the population than Catholics, Protestants, and all other followers of non Christian faiths – such as Islam and Buddhism. This was not the case only a decade ago ;D
So ATHEISM IS GROWING ;D
See religious people tell lies all the time..Maybe because they believe in lies?

Hard to trick an atheist into the truth, which is... all of that science theory stuff the atheists believe in is entirely an unknown until it is proven. And some of it like Big Bang and Black Hole will never be proven.

Atheists are the one group of people that believe science fiction is truth. They don't see what a powerful religion has overtaken them... completely blinded them.

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What like James T. Kirk using is mobile phone ;)..
Man he cannot even use bitcoin on his ;D..Science fiction will become reality  ;)..

The phone remember ;)..Badecker your brain lives in the olden days ;)

People are still the same: Head, Torso, Arms, Legs, Hands, Feet, Brain, etc.

The truth still fits people, just like the lies don't.

Big Bang and Black Holes may not be lies, but maybe they are. We will never know. This is why they should be dropped from the status of theory, and never should have become theories in the first place. And probably the Theory of Relativity right along with them.

It is not theory that these theories will never be able to be proven. It is fact. Because they will never be able to be proven is the reason that they should not even be scientific theories.

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To stop religion you'd have to stop low IQ ness. No offense to those who are religious here. You can't ban it.

It's time to ban crime, evil, hatred, wars, conflicts, poverty etc.
Religion brings positive values to the society as compassion, love, tolerance, cooperation, serving the community etc.
There is no reason to ban religion.
Some bad examples in the churches recently (sexual and financial scandals) can't be reason for such action.
It's my opinion, any way.

Religion you can not deny. First it teaches people the rules of behavior in society, and secondly, the religion itself will cease to exist when all people will be well educated.

You do not need religion to know how to behave, the rules of life are inside of all of us.
It makes sense to me not to kill or steal from my brother, no one taught me this, but myself.

I hope no one gets their morality from religion.
Stoning rape victims. Homicide, All the crap people do against gays, Killing half of Africa by denying condoms as a protection from Aids and so on
To get a good person to do something evil you need religion
The ones that gets their morality from God belongs in prison.

no and no one can do so.  i think most of the people in this Earth are following their religions and if you are even thinking abut to ban religion you are really making a big mistake you cannot stop people from following religion.

Yes, it is time. And China has been effective in doing so. The world would be much better without religion.

China has been effective in doing what my friend,people in china do follow some form of religious practices especially chinese folk religion,buddhism ,christianity,islam etc,even though it is ruled by  communist agenda it does not mean that the people of china doesnt have any religion,how would you impose a ban on religion,it is against freedom

Religion does not equal spirituality.  Religion is stories of people's spiritual experiences, spirituality is having your own.

Organized religions such as the catholic church work the same as tyrannical governments.  Their agenda is to instill fear (often perpetuated by illusions of 'hell'), to divide the people and rule over them.

Spirit is love.  Spirit is true, it is oneness, it is the universe, the unified consciousness that connects us all.  Organized religions have long oppressed sacred teaching plants that connect one to the etheric plane.  Millions have been murdered or burned by simply practicing with nature's sacraments, gifts for man to learn and evolve as a spirit.  It is the witch hunt against the divine feminine that has separated man from his inner flame of light.

Rather than fighting a control structure, it may be wise to focus energy on discovering and enlightening your own spirit.  Banning anything can only be enforced through violence, which in practice would just coincide with the actions of organized religions/government.

Liberate yourself with love.  Free your spirit from fear casted upon by the religious structure.  Fear is an illusion, as it is a choice.  See that we are all one spirit perceiving itself from infinite subjective realities.  The truth they try to keep us from realizing - is that we are one.

Love is all, love is you

If religion as we know it is banned, it will only be replaced with another religion - ATHEISM

Communist China already did that, and the average Chinese is not delighted about it.

Dont ban religion, but dont support religion with tax money.

This. There needs to be the separation of church and state, they are getting free money and they're rising their voices in politics.

Religion has always been on the side of the government. Two dastardly structure that makes people slaves. Which selects all the money, and forced to fight

My statement was true and serious. Read it again what will happen to your humanistic religion in the future.

Atheism is idiotism so there is no need to trick you any further. All things ending with ...ism are bad for you  ;)

I have nothing further to prove to you except the fact that you already had been proven. Idiot is any man who says in his heart that there is no God.

It is up to you, your responsibility to get rid of that state of stupidity.

Bonus hint: Maybe flat earth revelation will help you made a first step out. You can click link in my sig below.

what will happen to your humanistic religion in the future ..
We will travel the stars together as one human earth people ;)..

If everyone on earth gets past the first teaching of EARTHALON then there be no conflict ;)..

No proof of god no science proof of god neither but proof the EARTH IS ROUND..

TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round - YouTube
Video for how to know the earth is round▶ 2:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_W280R_Jt8

Your gods are messing your brains up..Harry potter comes to mind..

1.BE FREE TO BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE AS LONG AS YOU HURT NO ONE.. Get past it religion ;)..

I am well more powerful than your gods ;)..

Imagine a man wearing a black cloak and he goes around killing people?..

Well he has been free to be who he wants to be..BUT he messed up by hurting people..

So he never learnt EARTHALONS 1ST teaching..
BE FREE TO BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE AS LONG AS YOU HURT NO ONE..

Now when all humans can get past the first teachings then there be no conflict.
The only conflict will be small things..Like in the pub you and your brother over a pair of socks..
But no gathering of humans to have a war ;)..

I often wonder because we get to much for this planet is it in our nature to kill each other
So if we can sort the population problem out then maybe we would be safe from war..
Keep the planet in check some how so it doesn't over populate..
Over population will always cause war it's in our nature to then kill each other..

Plants animals all do this even AI will do this in the future..

I just HAD to reply when you said flat earth.. Only idiots will believe this nonsense. Tell me something, when you look across the sea, why cant you see Europe? Blind ass? How about with a telescope? If the earth were really flat then we could see other continents from the shores of north america. Simple fact. Its not flat, instead we see a horizon. A Horizon ... imagine that.. Due to the curvature of the earth the other continents are hidden from view. debunked and anyone on the planet can make this observation for themselves. Yet you religos choose to "believe" when right before you eyes is the truth, you choose to believe the internet... Like you choose to believe a 3000 year old book designed to keep people in line. You are the lost ones.

I have been going round and round with them on this for quite a while. Their answer will be that we have the wrong understanding of perspective. This is something that they don't really understand, themselves. They mostly get indoctrinated to accept that they understand it. But they still can't explain it... the perspective thing, I mean. They have made flat earth into, like, a religion for themselves.

You and I wouldn't be taken in by a Nigerian email scam. But I have known people who just couldn't resist... kinda like taking another drink from the whiskey bottle. Flat earth people are simply a small group who have a blind side that allows them to fixate so strongly on their ideals that they can't easily be swayed.

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This post clearly shows how indoctrinated zombie baal earther you are.
You do not need to believe, you can see with your own eyes that you live on a flat enclosed world.

And btw it's called horizon for a reason. it is not called curvazon, LOL. If you are blind then you are in no position to call me names.

A proper educational material will be of a great help to cure your condition(no monkey man science involved):

Understanding The Horizon - Mirages & Vanishing Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNjaDtgFp8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNjaDtgFp8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqRc5EH56w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqRc5EH56w)

Homemade simple experiment for dummies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCFKVmLWVs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCFKVmLWVs)

I think its not good to ban those religion because it can bring to war if we have no religion.. if we have religion they can teach people how to be good like 10 commandments from god.

What we need is education. Particularly about how everything around us works. Atoms and molecules. That way people won't lazily conclude that it's all magic.

If you need religion to teach you to be good, then that person would not be fooling any gods. They would be acting.

There can't possibly be anyone alive today who thinks that the Earth is flat. If they do, they must be joking. But that was a good experiment that you gave. But if they actually think that the Earth is flat, then they're probably not smart enough to consider it.

Well, religion is actually a system or an organization that's supposed to guide people into being good citizens of the Earth.

But just like all other systems created, it's not really the system itself that is faulty, but the people that run it and that's in it.

Often times, people forget the main purpose, the principles that make it, and their limitations.

A religions systems is just a system. The intent could be to do harm or damage to others. There are several examples of this such as a religion with mass suicide, a religion that promotes incest and others.

The religion system can be the fault itself. That we blindly accept any religion is total madness.

It is very sad that you have to explain something so basic and obivous to those idiots. He is probably trolling anyway. Any person believes in flat earth or any other nonsense from the holy books do not deserve to live in this age.

Explaining to an idiot is like talking to a fish. But going as far as saying they don't have a right to live. Are you god?  >:( Every country needs idiots. What do you want, send doctors and scientists to war? Who is going to buy all those products if everyone was a businessman?

There is no way to ban religion without banning all people. Why? Because the dictionary definition of the word "religion" says so. Check Dictionary.com here http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t, especially #6:
In other words, if you believe in banning religion so strongly that you speak about it or do it, you are doing it religiously. You have a religion of "anti-religionism" in yourself. The first thing you should do ban is your own religion in yourself. That would cause you to leave religious people alone to have their religion if they want. If you can't ban your religion in yourself, you should ban yourself (suicide).

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I forgot to add, they don't need to live, they can work as slaves. They already do actually. They just don't know it and won't ever know it. If they were capable of knowing it, they wouldn't believe fairy tales in the first place. :d

A happy slave is a free man. Why? He is free in his mind.

If you are stuck in slavery, make yourself be happy in your mind. Then you will be free.

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I think countries are already doing it from the start, which religion is the most hated in the world?
People killing and bombing and spreading fear in the name of which religion?
Have you ever thought about it why?

When a religion says you need to do by others the way you like them to do by you and you see a few group of people doing the opposite and the same time pretending to be the followers of said religion, who is to blame here? those groups trying to make that religion the most hated one?

Example: ISIS  members are not Muslims because all they doing is completely opposite of what Islam wants you to do.

I agree with you.
If ISIS is terrorist organization we can't hate all Muslims because of them.
We can't say that ISIS represent Muslim world.
Religion is institution only.
Religion can't be guilty for the evil act of people because they always have choice: to do good or evil.
So, people kill other people, based on their wrong choice, not institution.
So, we should stop people really, and not ban religion.
Religions mostly teach about peace, love, compassion etc.
Unfortunately, some people twist this message for their own goals.

i think it is not such an easy job to banned Religion, in this world all the people are engage with religions and they are ready to give their life for the safety of their religion, so it not so easy to bane any religion in this world.

I know you are speaking out of your blindness and ignorance. Here is 100+ pages thread for you. Obviously still not big enough for you to noticed it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1009045.1980 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1009045.1980)

your opinion is wrong with religion, do not blame religion itself, blaming people, true religion is the truth and the way of life of people, people who know about religion is not just like that, because every religion upholds human solidarity which religious, war is the last option where there is no way out again in the problem itself

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And who will be able to ban religion? Government? It did not agree, because calling a wave of hatred

Anybody who wants to ban religion, has to make a religion of the process, for himself, in order to be able to do it. Look up the complete dictionary definition of "religion."

Of course, since he then would have a religion, he should start with his own by banning himself.

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What about SSSR? Communist regime bans religion as all, and Stalin was an atheist...

Exactly. If you think that Stalin's Communism wasn't a government religion, then check out the complete definition of religion - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t.

If somebody wants to limit the definition of religion they are using to a specific aspect of religion, they should say it. Not all aspects of religion will fit Stalin Communism or atheism.

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nobody can ban religion on earth.. if you can make it happen, new religions will pop up for sure because people have tendency to believe in somethings like god, holly spirits etc. For that reason, there will always be religious staff on earth but all them will be man made not god made for sure.

Besides, the only reason that religion does bad things is because the people sit too close together in church. Now, if they wore Ban deodorant, they wouldn't be so irritable.

 ;D

that is IF you can ban religion. i mean the major religions today have been through dark times and were tried several times throughout history to be banished or removed but look at Christianity or Islam, they've had countless bloody timelines and many times they tried to wipe each other out but today they're still here with even more followers. so even if we want to ban religion, at this point i think it's not going to be possible

Banning religion would only cause chaos to the world. It's a big part of the world now since it has been established even before we were born. There are religion followers who would literally kill other people just to defend their beliefs and we don't actually have a say to whatever they want to do in their lives. Banning religion would also not totally ban religion as a lot of people would just secretly worship their God.

I'm not that knowledgeable with various religions, but maybe you are referring to cults?

As with the other things religion promote, as I've said, most of the time the problem is with the people misinterpreting the system

Religion cannot be banned on earth as people have strong belief in religion.

Religion is embedded on our being. For so many others - it has helped them go through life and all its hardships.

Exactly!
Religion is part of our lives, not just some old, outdated organization.
In the past people could have weddings only in the church.
Churches started most schools and universities in the europe.
In the ''dark age'' in the europe, 10 centuries ago, church saved our knowledge, books, culture etc.
Most charities are started by churches.
People are spiritual beings and will always have need for spirituality, nobody can stop or ban it (as we can see from  6000 years of human history!).

 

Religion should never be banned. however it shouldnt be pushed either. let people decide for themselves what to believe. telling someone not to believe in something or to believe in the very same thing is pointless and will only diminish our roles as humans.if you believe we are all specks on peter griffens donut that alright. thats fine. nobody should force you to say otherwise. but sooner or later you will realize it is pointless or you will die believing in it. meaning if we simply dont push any religion. allow everyone to make informed decisions on the lives. the world would be a peaceful one.

But, but, but. It is the religion of some people to ban religion. Just because they don't know that they have made it their religion, doesn't mean it isn't. However, if they knew it, they might start with themselves.

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Your rights end where another's begins. you can have a religion for anything you want but it is still illegal to deny someone else their religion, you are free to punch. but not free to punch someone.

religions can never be banned. even with force. because anyone can believe in whatever he wants. you simply can not control their hearts. !

Correct. That is why, if you have a religion of banning religion, and you are serious about it, you might consider suicide. Otherwise you are a hypocrite.

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but a religion where you kill yourself is a cult. so you dont need to kill yourself, so you a religion not a cult... PARADOX

and those religion is one of a good way to be kind person to follow the 10 commandment of god.. thats why we are staying piece. if it those religion are gone it can affect many people and we will experience of worldwar .. if it will happen.

A cult fits the definition of a religion, but not every religion is a cult.

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well that is debatable ;P haven't seen a religion that isn't a cult xD

So, your personal religion - your philosophy of life - is a cult then!

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let me rephrase that, i have not seen an organized religion that is not a cult. (Buddhism doesnt count cause it wasnt ment ot be a religion anyway.)

Every religion is a cult that got large enough to be called a religion.

Tried to ban religion it was called the Soviet Union and didn't work out so well.  Stalin killed a lot of people.  It was tried in other places as well.   Do a study on the lives of the saints.  They built hospitals, schools, etc. in areas that were very depressed and oppressed.  Look up Dorothy Day. 

Except for the true Christian religion, which is made up of Jesus-salvation believers. This religion is the family of God.

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Nope i think it shouldn't ban religion on this earth because some of us are depending on god and believing that god is true and we have faith on him war is all about money the those leaders are only making money it is not religions fault that bring war if people will unite and everything will be followed.