Would the world be a better place if everyone in the world believed in only one religion?
Yes
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No
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The world would be a better place without religion altogether, picture world where reason and logic where the guiding force of the community, a world where fellow man treats one another with love and dignity despite ones differences, picture a world without starvation, war, and the pursuit of one goal, and that goal is to pursue truth and understanding and human advancement, religion has done nothing but keep us apart, divide us and spread blood over petty indifference over something that cannot be proven nor dis-proven, that being the existence of god itself. Side: Yes
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Religion doesn't really have a purpose in my opinion. I think it's existence is pointless, and it has caused more harm than good. It causes people to believe in miraculous nonsense, fantasy based characters, and preaches ideas that are not to be questioned. The world would be far better without any religion at all. Side: Yes
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Yes, I do support this. Honestly, I see religion as a way to just start arguments. There is no point to it but it's not like we can just stop religion. If we could I feel like people would have already stopped it. Now if we all believed in one religion it would stop the arguing over peoples believes. Then again we would be right back where we started. We would be trying to find an escape from the 1 religion that we are forced to believe. Side: Yes
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Religion unites us and divides us, and fortunately so. In a sense, everyone does believe in only one religion. A person cannot help but believe in the religion (belief/value system) that is intrinsically the most powerful. There is a prevailing ideology of self interest, and it's absolutely universal. Anyone not adhering to it's fundamental tenets will either reform or die in short order. Therefore it certainly seems like there is no room for diversity when you get down to fundamentals. However, religious diversity is to us, as fundamental and important as roots are to a plant. If we don't view religion in an overly sectarian sense, we recognize and value both our commonality and our diversity. I do think that we are better off being able to look past our differences to recognize that we are ultimately part of a single community, but I also think failure to purposefully diversify would be fatal for us. Side: No
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To be trully considered and answered, this question needs more information. For example, what one religion would everyone believe in? If it is a religion that contains racism and/or allows murder or death , then no, the world would not be in a "better place", but if it is one in which there is actually peace, love, and everyone cared for one another and so on, then yes the world would be better off. But again this is based off of what one person or majority group would consider better for the world and in the end is subjected to perception, therefore becoming impossible to actually answer because what one person would believe to be a "better world" would be the complete opposite of someone else. In the end, due to human nature to create new ideas and disagree, we would end up where we are now with religion-everyone having their own belief that they are right and others are wrong, thus leading to war, and many other things. In a sense, history would repeat itself with all that is good and all that is bad. Also, even if everyone believed in one religion it wouldn't neccessarliy fixed all of the other major problems we face in the world today such as famine, illness, death, ect. So the degree in which the world became a "better place" can't be measured and may in fact be only a very small improvment of what we have now if at all. This is why the world would most likely not be a better place if all believed in the same religion. Side: No
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