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Is the world better off with or without Islam?

Ladbants

Are we better off without the religion of Islam existing or has it had an overall benefit in society?

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Reply 1

celloel

Without it. All in all, there aren't any religions that have helped us, and Islam has definitely not made our world a nicer nor more peaceful place to live.

Reply 2

username2659199

That's an extremely complicated and difficult question which also needs lots of clarification. No one could ever answer a question like that properly because of how long it's been around and its numerous effects, positive or negative.

Virtually impossible to answer because of the countless factors

Reply 3

Adamski191

You shouldn't just be asking this about Islam. At times, I ponder if the world could've been better off without Christianity. Even now, the only religion I can feel any compassion towards these days is Judaism.

Reply 4

user 42005

The world would be better off without all religion, but certainly in modern times the world would be a better place without Islam specifically.

Reply 5

Speedscarlet

Muslims make 23% of people in this planet so er... We need them.

But what we don't need is terrorists.

Reply 6

KingBradly

If everyone left Islam it would obviously be a benefit to the world, well at least if you value liberalism.

Reply 7

Ladbants

Original post by HAnwar

This is your third thread on Islam in less than 12 hours.
That is really sad.

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Nothing sad or wrong about discussing and debating about a belief system. It's good to challenge and debate ideas.

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 8

Ladbants

Original post by Speedscarlet

Muslims make 23% of people in this planet so er... We need them.

But what we don't need is terrorists.

I meant the religion, not the people of the religion. We would still have all these people if Islam didn't exist.

Reply 9

Glib

To be honest, I think the world would be better without religion in general.
(I already know people will get very angry at this)

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 10

CorpusLuteum

Blease ask zis question in 100 year and a lot of things will be different. Don't ask zis question in the middle of a global crisis.

Reply 11

CorpusLuteum

Original post by Ladbants

Nothing sad or wrong about discussing and debating about a belief system. It's good to challenge and debate ideas.

Kan ewe keep it 2 won thred blease?

Reply 12

xylas

Original post by Ladbants

Are we better off without the religion of Islam existing or has it had an overall benefit in society?

Obviously 'better off' is not a statement of fact but of opinion. My opinion is that we would be better off without it as long as other ideologies e.g. christianity, communism etc do not get any bigger than they are currently.

Reply 13

celloel

Pretty lovely, I stand corrected - all religion except Buddhism ;]

Reply 14

champ_mc99

Original post by Adamski191

Isn't the Tanakh pretty much the same as the Old Testament?

Without.

Don't forget what helped cause all this radicalisation in the first place

Reply 17

h333

Forget the question, please let me know how you will get rid of Islam in the first place?? Then talk. All I can think of is madness to even attempt it so good to you for thinking right. :colonhash:

Reply 18

coconut64

I don't think the problem lays within Islam. It is more to do with how we think of religions. If islam is to be eradicated then what about Christianity, Buddhism and other religions? Same could be said that Christianity brings evilness as there are people out there who are homophobic and kill for it. Religions bring both the good and the bad. Personally I don't think all the blame should be pointed to Islam, it is more to with the different individuals in my opinion.

Reply 19

welshiee

All collective ideologies are poisonous. The entire notion of ideology is dangerous - they're tools to manipulate the vulnerable/gullible and are often also adopted by the naive and stupid amongst us. Political ideologies have also allowed people to wreak havoc across the world. We should be promoting education and individual freedom of thought, not this hive mentality of aligning with a predefined ideological position.

In a world where people are more educated and free to draw their own conclusions based on facts and solid evidence you will of course get evil people doing evil things but there will be no predefined doctrine as a basis to go from. They will simply be lone rangers, unless groups form and create a collective identity which is very likely given historical events.

https://mofanim.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/the-danger-of-ideologies/