acrionx opened this issue on Oct 05, 2010 · 394 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 09 October 2010 at 5:04 PM
Quote - I have a feeling humanity would have figured out how to get along fairly well without any help from religion, just as we'd get along fine (perhaps even better) without it today.
Very early man learned from experience that if you steal from someone else or try to take their wives, they'll club you and take their stuff/women back. Kill someone, and friends of the deceased will likely kill you for doing so. We certainly must have had basic guidelines of social behavior before any religion came along.
You forget that humans are not born with experience. They could easily join a Hitler Youth group. Humanity is very good at producing torture chambers and concentration camps. Without the Bible, there would be no US Constitution. Without the US Constitution, there would be no US. Without the US, the entire world would be torture chambers and concentration camps.