Originally posted by xpert11If there was no religion to begin with then how would people know any differnt?
If you reread my post
you will find I address what would happen if religion were to be realized as fake.
Originally posted by The Division Bell
Step outside your cultural views to analyze the question. Socio-economics would not collapse, it would just be a different form than the one you are
accustomed to.
Think outside the box, people! The question was analyzed, see my response to xpert11. And I agree with thinking
outside the box, so allow me to lift the lid and give you a quick tour outside of yours:
Government:
Let us head over to Iran for a brief stop, the theocratic government falls, Sharia rule is no more.
Next Iraq: AL Sistani would be heading back to the polls and looking for a new platform by which to rouse his once religious followers. As with Iran,
no longer do men have any God given reason to rule over the women.
Israel, the fight between Muslem and Jew suddenly becomes a fight between Hebrews and Palestinians. The piece of land known as Temple mount is just
another piece of land with some buildings and worthless ruins on top of it, a bad memory of centuries of bloodshed over a lie. The chosen people are
just people, the anti-Palestinian Knesset members lose legitimacy, and world governments no longer have a need to pussy foot around religious doctrine
and must revisit the conflict based solely on rights of settlement.
USA-Red states no longer elect a president based on his faith and the beliefs of his faith. S/he no longer receives any benefit from being supported
by the Grahams, Fallwells or Jacksons.
Over to Vatican City where the entire government is washed up, the Holy See just becomes the See, and must find an alternative reason to hold onto the
piece of land and form a government. Which leads me to socio-economic. The massive influx of membership tithes from around the world dries up, and
along with it the properties known as churches either become white elephants or change into libraries.
Germany’s church tax is no longer legitimate, the billions it collects will have to be renamed an alternate.
Canada- Parochial schools close their doors, or reopen under a public banner as funding is no longer available through realty taxes.
USA-The issue against homosexual marriage must find new legitimacy, as it can longer be argued to be a sin. The faith based initiative screeches to a
halt as its platform no longer holds true. Taxpayer funds can no longer be doled out to the already membership dry churches on this basis, and
whatever social sub-agencies they supported. Evangelical ministries collapse or redefine themselves to keep the funds flowing in.
Worldwide- Hundreds of thousands find themselves unemployed as the religious based businesses under the disguise of churches, cease to be going
concerns. Mosques and Temples too become white elephants or libraries, legion halls or Masonic temples.
The riches of all the denominations become a monstrous headache to determine how much there is and to whom they belong. court cases abound, class
action suits are the order of the day.
Billions of people are in a state of flux, not knowing how to accept the sudden realization that it was all a lie, as they struggle to turn that outer
moral code they lived by to inner moral value. Coping becomes a mentally destructive force, a psychological burden affecting behaviour and morality,
and reflected in attitude toward work and interaction with others. Businesses lose productivity and income, and the cycle of funds has been broken and
disrupted.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg, but it was just a peek out from under the lid.
