Has religion benefited this planet in anyway?

Has religion benefited this planet in anyway? And if it has, are the Pro's greater than the cons ?

I mean religion has given us:

Beheadings

Stonings

Child Abuse

Mass suicide

Beating your wife, and making women 3rd class citizens, with similiar rights to a donkey

Eating cow manure for Good luck (hinduism) and drinking cow urine to cure ilnesses (Islam)

Some religious people do consider all these stuff as good things, but I sure dont

Religious art is some of the greatest artistic creations ever made, so there's that.

Religious art is some of the greatest artistic creations ever made, so there's that.

Aljosa23

You mean art like this

Because thats disgusting art

All the picture tells me is that religion is about pain and suffering

Religious art is some of the greatest artistic creations ever made, so there's that.

Aljosa23

stained glass art :P

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TheFatPerson

religion threads in Gamespot.

why bother

It provided us with sexually repressed girls who are willing to do anything in bedlonewolf604

:roll:

(too bad I haven't taken advantage of any of that.....)lonewolf604

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]It provided us with sexually repressed girls who are willing to do anything in bedkingkong0124

:roll:

(too bad I haven't taken advantage of any of that.....)lonewolf604

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

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cloud3601

Religion-based charities have helped lots of people.

Another religion is bad post...shocking!

I haven't watched a new anime in nearly 4 years (old sig too...). lonewolf604

Good job.

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"] I haven't watched a new anime in nearly 4 years (old sig too...). kingkong0124

Good job.

Relax, kk.dave123321

I'm relaxed, dave123321.

I would say that humans have given us that, if you magically take away religion the world will not be any better off.

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"] I haven't watched a new anime in nearly 4 years (old sig too...). lonewolf604

Good job.

i know, thanks.

[QUOTE="dave123321"]Relax, kk.kingkong0124

I'm relaxed, dave123321.

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

[QUOTE="dave123321"]Relax, kk.dave123321

I'm relaxed, dave123321.

Thanks for caring.

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]It provided us with sexually repressed girls who are willing to do anything in bedkingkong0124

:roll:

(too bad I haven't taken advantage of any of that.....)lonewolf604

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

I would say that humans have given us that, if you magically take away religion the world will not be any better off.

Chaos_HL21

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]

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[QUOTE="lonewolf604"](too bad I haven't taken advantage of any of that.....)cloud3601

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

Batman avatar is there to fit with the signature.

[QUOTE="cloud3601"]

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

kingkong0124

Batman avatar is there to fit with the signature.

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

[QUOTE="cloud3601"] Says the guy with a batman avatar

lonewolf604

Batman avatar is there to fit with the signature.

Tons.

[QUOTE="cloud3601"]

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

maybe you should stop watching Japanese cartoons.

kingkong0124

Batman avatar is there to fit with the signature.

you must be as cool as Chuck Norris, GI Joe, Action man e.t.c

VERY COOL BIG BIG BOI, go back to listening to your gangster music

you must be as cool as Chuck Norris, GI Joe, Action man e.t.c

cloud3601

I'm cooler.

Religion-based charities have helped lots of people.JML897

[QUOTE="Chaos_HL21"]

I would say that humans have given us that, if you magically take away religion the world will not be any better off.

cloud3601

People will fight each other over everything... Religion is just one of many things that people love to talk down on. If you take away religion, it will be other things (i.e. money, jealousy, lust)

[QUOTE="cloud3601"]

you must be as cool as Chuck Norris, GI Joe, Action man e.t.c

kingkong0124

I'm cooler.

cant be cooller than chuck norris if you dont like getting it through the butt

I'm not even going to respond to OP's obvious troll attempt. I'm just here for my +1.NiKva

This is a valid thread

Here comes another tough OP.

Well, why don't you go do something useful for humanity, like curing cancer or something, instead of talking how useless religion is.

in the grand scheme of things, relative to everything else, all things accounted for, etc.

no, religion has not been a benefit to human kind or the world. I imagine in a religion-free world, cancer would be cured by now, we'd be terraforming Mars, and there'd be a lot less problems.

I mean, hell, the absence of religious persecution alone would justify getting rid of religion.

I would say that humans have given us that, if you magically take away religion the world will not be any better off.Chaos_HL21

[QUOTE="NiKva"]I'm not even going to respond to OP's obvious troll attempt. I'm just here for my +1.cloud3601

This is a valid thread

People will fight each other over everything... Religion is just one of many things that people love to talk down on. If you take away religion, it will be other things (i.e. money, jealousy, lust)ExtremeGamer93

Here comes another tough OP.

Well, why don't you go do something useful for humanity, like curing cancer or something, instead of talking how useless religion is.

TehFuneral

Cancer while not cured has been has been fought hard and could be close to being cured. And it is not religion that is curing it, in fact many researchers believe stem cells are the future to cure cancer which is something that doesn't get funding because of mostly...well you can guess why.

[QUOTE="TehFuneral"]

Here comes another tough OP.

Well, why don't you go do something useful for humanity, like curing cancer or something, instead of talking how useless religion is.

Jolt_counter119

Cancer while not cured has been has been fought hard and could be close to being cured. And it is not religion that is curing it, in fact many researchers believe stem cells are the future to cure cancer which is something that doesn't get funding because of mostly...well you can guess why.

Im not denying any of this.

Im also not a psychologist, but you're also forgetting spiritual health.

Anyways, if religion was created it was because man needed it, there is no denying that religion had no benefits whatsoever on humans at some point in history.

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]

Religious art is some of the greatest artistic creations ever made, so there's that.

Blood-Scribe

[QUOTE="JML897"]Religion-based charities have helped lots of people.Zeviander

That's true, but it doesn't invalidate the good that religious charities have also done.

[QUOTE="Jolt_counter119"]

[QUOTE="TehFuneral"]

Here comes another tough OP.

Well, why don't you go do something useful for humanity, like curing cancer or something, instead of talking how useless religion is.

TehFuneral

Cancer while not cured has been has been fought hard and could be close to being cured. And it is not religion that is curing it, in fact many researchers believe stem cells are the future to cure cancer which is something that doesn't get funding because of mostly...well you can guess why.

Im not denying any of this.

Im also not a psychologist, but you're also forgetting spiritual health.

Anyways, if religion was created it was because man needed it, there is no denying that religion had no benefits whatsoever on humans at some point in history.

It's a placeholder. Humans will worship whatever they don't understand. As we come to understand more and more religion becomes more and more irrelevant. So is it a positive to give things order and people a false understanding of what they are meant to do, or is it a negative, a barrier to finding true understanding?

[QUOTE="JML897"]Religion-based charities have helped lots of people.Zeviander

bill gates does not identify as an atheistJigglyWiggly_