What good does religion offer the world today?

Think:

"Wild Wild West"

when you think of a world without religion.

Think of what religions will arise in future generations if the current ones are erased from history; and you will imagine something resembling the Mayan Temples and their atheist priests and their oppressive militia eating people during the drought, because they brain wash the children for multiple generations.

Imagine no marriage - only no obligation sexual relations (leading to homelessness and abuse) - and slavery [because morals are no longer considered facts] {and the homeless will be considered Serfs if not less}.

That is the horizon of the secular apocalypse.

remember who now provides your food, and who you will expect to in the future* The lack of moral consideration that now exists because of lack of morality, and the presence of greed.

People posting things like that to test God, is comparable in Ludacris to; an atheist saying that they are religious and like Homosexuals, just because atheists world wide would then use it as evidence against religion because they are so stupid, that they think that that atheist is religious just because he said so.

It's foretold in the book of Revelation.

Yup...all of them could be wrong.

But all might be closer to the truth than a strong atheist who asserts there are no gods.

Just something to think about.

If it was a math problem people wouldn't have any problem seeing the obvious. But if it's something people care about...

Or maybe there is no God or Gods and these religions and their barbaric ways have led billions of people into thinking they are wise but in reality they and you are nothing more than mere fools...

It is quite possible, if not probable Frank...

It is possible, Cobbler.

If you want to talk probability as in "it is more likely that there are no gods than that there are"...I doubt you have enough ammunition to prevail. But I certainly would be willing to discuss it at great length.

By the way...I am not a fool. That kind of thing doesn't contribute much to a discussion. Better to leave it out.

The problem with foolishness, is that fool knows not that he is a fool, rather he oft thinks his self wise.

Smiley,
foolin' around

You coulda fooled.me, Smiley

You are probably not a fool.

When I read Shakespeare I can obtain enlightenment and I can also obtain enlightenment from reading Time, Life, Look, The Readers Digest and the Saturday Evening Post.

When one inserts that idea that you are not reading mere words but the words of some faultless tyrannical being, this is the precise moment that people become fools... (they can't all be right)

I fault a lot of the people you fault, Cobbler...and probably for the same reasons you fault them...they go over the line...way over the line.

I respect you and your right to speak, but I fault you for those same reason also.

If you are right Cobbler, wouldn't that mean that 6,500,000,000 people are wrong?

What's to stop 6.5 million people from being wrong? That's an ad populum fallacy. And since a lot of religious people believe contradictory things, it's not like they're a united group.