Is it possible for people to do good things, and act with Kindness and love in the...

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...absence of a god? If no one believes in religion do you think people would continue to do good things for the sheer sake of goodness.

Or do you think if everyone stopped believing in God the world would become a disastrous place yearning for a Spiritual power to guide humanity?
 
Re: Is it possible for people to do good things, and act with Kindness and love in the..

The absense of God and not believing in religion are two different things. I know people who reject religion but have a loving relationship with God, and I know people who love religion and its trappings but to all appearances, have no idea of who God is.

In a lot of ways, religion has been perverted by the politics of the culture it exists in. Fundamentalism of any kind -- Christian or Muslim -- is a politicized (and therefore secular) caricature of religion. So I think there would be a great increase in love, good, and acts of kindness if these polluted variations of religion disappeared.

But wherever religion does what it's supposed to do, i.e., focus our attention onto God instead of politics, then it teaches us to love one another, and the world would be worse without those.
 
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