Without religion would people become more, less, or be equally morally corrupt?


  • they will become more corrupt in my point of view


  • I SEE THIS AS A THREAT TO THE SALAD RELIGION


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    I think without religon people would become less corrupt. See religon in itself has caused so much corruption in this world and has become so much more about everything other then GOD. If you were to take away religon with its sects and groups and just remind people that they all believe in a higher power and we all have a sense of right and wrong people would be less inclined to feel superior to one another because of religion or all these other superficial factors. At the end of the day religon isnt what makes you a good person its your actions and who you are as a person.


  • @ragnar-lothbrok We can see a lot of people who consider themselves religious but they aren't moral. so it's better to say: If people understand and do on the truth of the religions, surely morality will be guaranteed.


  • people have manipulated others with religion a lot in the past, E.g the church used to sell "tickets to heaven" for a hefty prize all the way back in the medieval age. I personally think people would become equally moral or more moral


  • Religion has nothing to do with it in my opinion. Bad, good, moral or not, its has to do with the person. Seen religious people do really evil things and seen saint like kindness from a non-believer. Total has to do with the soul of the man..or woman


  • @joetate but some religions like islam prohibit bad behaviors and tries to make equality amongst people..nature of human is taking care of himself first and his family but religion puts equality and equity first. What u say abt this


  • @reza-bastani i agree with u, most of peoples use religion "face" to oppress, or do something bad. And these kind of people are using religion in a bad way. I believe there is no true religion whch suports oppresion or anythn harmful to human nature. But peoples or human them selves change everythng accrding to what they wish or like. Only God can put equality on earth because most human beings are not perfct so they cant create something perfectly equal.


  • Equally. Religion is just a coping mechanism. If people want to do evil things, they will do them with or without religion. Religion doesn't cause violence or hatred, it's just an excuse for violence and hatred that already exists on a deeper level. If your religion tells you not to kill, but you are a killer at heart, you will kill and you will justify your actions regardless.


  • @cocoxxjumbo-v some religions might wipe that hatred out of someones heart, and make them better persons, and i believe such religion exists, a killer might turn to a priest, a good priest and might even change the world, tho its something rare to happen. We are not that perfct to create the perfct system of life.


  • @lasttrain94 i agree on you lasttrain, its only persons choices that reveals someones character, but i believe people change, if they get influenced by something. Religion can turn hate to love. Tho nowdays peoples use religion in irrelative way and now it looks like its the source of corruption. If religion could be used well i believe hate will never exist, bad morals and so on. As long as religion is the only perfct system of life made by God him self and not with some updates of humanbeing


  • @ragnar-lothbrok
    I personally find the suggestion that without having an invisible sky dady tell me that killing, rape and violence is bad, then i wouldn't know otherwise a highly insulting thing and i can't believe that anyone would feel ok with saying such ridiculous things:

    And by the way atheist countries are statistically more peaceful, organised, have less discrimination and more like utopias than religious countries:


  • @alwaysstranger Woot my country made number 4!


  • @bushmurry where are you from?


  • @alwaysstranger New Zealand


  • @bushmurry oh cool. So you're in a mostly atheist country, wow lucky. I'm France so it's the same. Atheistic countries are always much better


  • @alwaysstranger I don't know if the country is mostly atheist, but there are a lot of different religions and beliefs represented here... So it's probably more accurate to say that there isn't a dominant majority of one belief or another. My Grandfather was a Christian reverend but supported my beliefs too. I imagine France would be quite a melting pot!


  • i was taught religious vales from a very small age,
    and for me personally many a times it has helped me to control my self centered behaviour and self serving actions and also from committing mistakes that i would have really badly regretted later.

    i guess im the person i am to a larger extend because of the values and beliefs that was instilled in me by my parents and moral islamic studies teachers.

    see the reason why many hate religion is because of how they were taught,i have friends who absolutely hate anythng to be done in the name of religion because they were threatened from a small age that if they do this god will punish if they do that god will punish,the authority figures in their life taught them that god was a sadistic figure who will punish if u exercise free will even if u slip my mistake.

    i was taught that moms love is only 0.000000000000001 % of Allahs love,i was taught that if i walk towards God he would run towards me,i was taught that no matter how many mistakes i commit and however bad it is and even if the whole world stands againstme,,if i repent sincerely and faithfully Allah will forgive me and love me even more,
    i was taught that God loves those who commits mistakes and repents for it,i was taught that a good sincere prayer erases all worries and lightens all tensions. God is what you want him to be,i see him as a loved filled protector who has got my back in everything i do and who gets upset when i do something sinful,so it makes me want to be a good respectable human being who is responsible reliable and wont do any harm to anything or anyone purposefully. and would try ceaselessly to makeup for any harm if done to make them accept my apology.

    in short my belief my faith helps me to be stronger kinder better empathic humble and to be filled with hope and trust.

    not saying im a perfect human being..but my religious beliefs and faith has always always helped through everything that i have ever faced in this world that i thought would destroy me.


  • @bushmurry said in Without religion would people become more, less, or be equally morally corrupt?:

    @alwaysstranger I don't know if the country is mostly atheist, but there are a lot of different religions and beliefs represented here... So it's probably more accurate to say that there isn't a dominant majority of one belief or another. My Grandfather was a Christian reverend but supported my beliefs too. I imagine France would be quite a melting pot!

    Yeah. There are a lot of religions here too but i think that about 75% of people are religiously unaffiliated and around 40% or 45% are atheist