Hello my dear, people have been living without religion since time immemorial. Religion is a fairly new concept when it comes to how long humanity has been on Earth. They still survived, right?

When we come to the concept of modern atheism vs lack of the need for religion, I personally think that Atheists now would not be saying the same thing that they would be saying now had they been alive before the advent of religion (that's BEFORE monotheism and deism mind you)- because they would be the same type of barbarians living in tribes regardless of whether they believe in religion or not. How is any human to act with proper decorum if he does not receive wisdom or enlightenment from a different, non-human source ?

I believe that God revealed religion to man (in the form of the Torah, Injeel and Quran) because well, man were kinda effed up at some point of time and needed guidance back onto how to actually become proper human beings (and which divine source to actually prostrate to).

Modern atheists are only making the claim that they are able to live as morally righteous human beings without the need for religion because they already KNOW of the existence of what is accepted as morally right or wrong (with the exception of a few, like, gay laws)- and it's not like they have any choice to act contrary to what is accepted anyway- there's jail for that too. It's like, using level 5 hax because they didn't need to do the previous quests to unlock lv 5 DIVINE ENLIGHTENMENT.

Erm no. There is more to what constitutes religion than JUST morality. Duh.

PS: Don't bother asking me to prove it. If you're interested, you can easily google to find out more about each religion online. Good luck with the reading though, lol.

This post has been edited by teh tarik satu: Jan 15 2010, 11:57 PM

Erm... huh? I think you had best reread my post. I never said that morality = religion. lol.