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ireneony:
His small diick though



Modified:
To all the small diick guys quoting me, back off!

ireneony:
His small diick though



Modified:
To all the small diick guys quoting me, back off!

ireneony:
His small diick though



Modified:
To all the small diick guys quoting me, back off!

cloudgoddess:
I often see the argument posed by theists, and some atheists, that humanity somehow requires religion to keep from imploding on itself, and taking away religion would lead to widespread chaos and eventually doomsday.

I tend to strongly disagree.

This is a list of ways I think humanity could very likely be better off without religion now (specifically the Abrahamic religions and others with similar doctrines), supported by evidence I've come across.

Without religion:
1. Humanity could get along better. Tribalism is the blanket term to describe the innate human tendency to form alliances and groups against one another. More and more research is showing that tribalism can be overcome, and peace amongst people of different groups can be achieved, the more people are able to see a like-ness in one another. A "you are human just like me, I accept you, I feel comfortable around you".

Religion is a direct obstacle to achieving this like-ness, and it shouldn't be hard to imagine why. Religion teaches millions of people, usually via childhood indoctrination (brainwashing), that because the so-called "creator of the entire universe" said so, they are better, more "holy", more valuable, more moral than other groups of people. This is a perfect recipe for unnecessary tribalistic tendencies. And we see this type of religious tribalism unfolding all over the world, often violently.

Don't get me wrong, tribalism can and does exist in many other forms (racism, imperialism, even people with different tastes in music can form alliances based on that). But what sets religion apart is the fact that it rests upon a firm foundation of fear (of hell), and shielded from criticism in a way other forms of tribalism aren't, making it much harder to overcome.

2. Humanity could better understand the world & universe around us. Since the dawn of scientific & empirical thought, religion has been in direct opposition to a vast amount of scientific progress. No honest person can deny this. When Galileo discovered the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around, the church wanted him killed because it contradicted the picture the gospels painted of our place in the world. The same goes for the anti-evolution nonsense that still goes on today. People are actively against the foundational theory uniting all biology, for no other reason than that it contradicts the religion they were taught.

Religious indoctrination installs cognitive biases in peoples' minds, causing strong feelings of resistance, anger, hostility and paranoia once they are confronted with certain scientific (& sometimes philosophical) topics that call into question the religious worldview they were indoctrinated with. The anti-intellectual, anti-science mindset that religion births is causing billions of people across the globe to remain centuries behind on a huge chunk of human knowledge. Thus, impeding the scientific & intellectual progress of humanity as a whole.

According to surveys, the countries with the lowest populations of religious people have the highest rates of quality education. It's not always accurate to imply causation from correlation, and the relationship might flow both ways, but it's quite obvious that the more religious someone is, the more unwelcoming of science they're likely to be.

3. Humanity could understand ourselves better. It is true that humans have innate biological insticts that drive much of our behavior. These insticts, as science continues to find, aren't magical but evolved. They helped our species survive, just like every other animals' insticts help it survive. Rather than helping us understand and best navigate our human instincts (like our emotional reactions & sexuality), religion demonizes and mystifies them. It manufactures a ridiculous amount of shame around simply being human.

Religion also, in it's ignorance, has stamped mental disorders with labels like "spiritual invasion" or "demonic posession". Instead of people getting the psychiatric help they need, people are sent to exorcists and other phony religious leaders for "deliverance". Not only does this put lives & minds in danger, but it generates an unnecessary sense of fear and panic around treatable medical conditions, causing people to fundamentally misunderstand their own mental health.

4. Humanity could be more proactive & prosperous. Rather than relying on prayer, which is essentially talking to yourself, people could be more likely to take action towards solving their problems if religion were not a factor in their lives. Again, we see that the most prospering and forward-moving countries have smaller percentages of people who think religiously. Because their societies are based in reason and evidence-based thinking, they are quicker to find workable solutions to economic, political, health, and other issues. Much of the law in the developed world is based on our current understanding of these issues according to research. NOT religious books, which were written by people 2,000 years ago who were quite ignorant in these areas.

5. Humanity could be happier. The biggest reason of all that people give for why people need religion, is that it gives them comfort and hope. When going through a rough time, praying helps people cope. When someone dies, the promise that you'll see them again is soothing. Although I don't deny that religion can serve as an emotional bandaid, or even a vessel for truly healing practices (ex. "giving your troubles up to god" could have the same cognitive effect as "accepting what you can't control and doing your best" ), it is NOT, imo, the only way, let alone the best way, for us to achieve happiness and peace.

As I've mentioned in previous posts, the areas of Neuroscience and Psychology are making some incredible discoveries as of late, uncovering long-awaited answers to our mysterious psyches and how to navigate them. Recent studies show that happiness, contentment, and compassion for onesself and others can be learned & practiced as skills; healing from grief, sorrow, and trauma can be achieved through evidence based psychiatric techniques (including self-directed therapies); and life's obstacles can be surmounted by tapping into proven resources (like a nurturing social environment).

In other words, very good answers to how to be happier, how to get over struggles, how to find peace, are out there. In this day and age, the internet, libraries and bookstores are swarming with this information. With some research into these resources, it should become clear that religion has outlived it's usefulness in this area as well.

So, to conclude, I think that humanity could not only survive without organized religion like the Abrahamic faiths, we could thrive. The children who are raised without the religion across the globe, in areas like the Netherlands, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Iceland, yet become healthy, happy, and functioning members of their societies, are evidence of this. At this point I feel like humanity is clutching on to religion like a child to it's stuffed animal. We don't need it anymore, we just think we do.

K9blunt:
Na wa o!


When there are more pressing issues in the world na mammary size dem dey warri about.....


Indeed the world is about to end.... Smh

Gabaleve:
I jux want to leave this country

ojay2053:
Which kind nonsense country be this nau

blithe2nice:
mikolo! Mikolo!mokolo! How many times did I call ur name? If say u no be my brother en,I for say u no get conscience. Vote AP...wetin ? For this one wen bubu dey do us so? U pass ekpoma road dat as about two mnths ago? Because say road bad oshomole com stop to dey go auchi every weekend. But Na one individual wen no be govtmt dey do repairs for dat road now. APC no just be option,if say u mession something like agap or unpp,(onuwamage party) ahahahaha,I for listen small. No vex Bros..

Legitbaba:
U are a big joke, and anyone that takes u serious is even a bigger joke.... Ain't gat no plans to reply u, cos u ain't saying any sh!t tha makes sense to me

LordNicvuitton:
@mikolo80, you're a scum bag and a skunk.. beta move along and neva comment on this thread again.
your fada is a scumbag while your mother is the skunk
And I will comment as much as I want
It's called free speech, look it up sometime when you get your head out your asss
OP and other contributors, what's d very next step? Maybe we can take these contributions to Twitter and other relevant sites and maybe, just maybe we can build a very strong message, strong enough to make the weak spirited Nigerian youths rise 2 action..
message, ha!!! Freaking hilarious
No be only message na telegram
Ask saldiKa abi Wetin him call himself Wetin happen to am when he write message
Nigeria is in deed a sorry nation and a big joke, our useless politicians using ethnic sentiments to divide us, so they can continue doing evil.
you are a sorry individual and a waste of clay and oxygen
Is it politicians that held your fingers to be typing rubbish online about other tribes
Why can't you go to rallies and denounce baggars with loudspeaker,
Cos you're a lazy coward is why

A country that prides itself in being too religious, yet ritual killings of innocent citizens are done everyday and the parts sold to the same useless politicians.
no be una de encourage the holiness
People disappear everyday in Nigeria without a trace but nobody hears it until it happens to an elite..
you wan compare yourself to elite
How much de your account
How many you don impact with anything other than insult
No one will miss you

The White Man left too early too late..

Feraz:
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For the bolded, I have thought of the same thing. I mean, if things get better and are in place, wouldn't it amount to more taxes and more luxury for them?

So the numerous taxes paid to make better Nigeria isn't something? Despite that, we provide our electricity, security, water and other things and you still ask what one has done to make Nigeria better? I searched for a solution from what you wrote and could not find one.

xharder:
please you guys should stop posting pictures of public places and infrastructures..post pictures of where the ordinary man leave..

yes there is a new ibadan but it is only 5% of the whole ibadan......ibadan still remains a cluster of slums, with hungry dirty people littering the streets of ibadan.That is why you see alot of beggars and hungry poverty stricken people especially women between the ages of 35 to 70.
i dont have any problem with ibadan but you guys should not come online to deceive people like we don't know ibadan even better than many of the so call dwellers.

ibadan is quit cheap and cool though,but you cant take those rusty roof estate away from ibadan and other south west town....in fact it is part of its identity.. ibadan is not complete without those rusty slums.


anyhow anybody wants to argue it, you cant find those kinds of concentration of rusty roofs in the east even my yoruba friend who visited my home town was marvel when we got to my village, he was wowed when i took him to owerri..

all he kept say was,

eyin igbo kan ko ile nla nla ni ilu yin.. (that igbos build big houses in their villages)

mo notice kpe eyin igbo o ko bungalow in ilu yin. ( that he noticed that he hardly see bungalow buildings i.e we dont build bungalows)
same Noni
Only 5% build mighty houses same as Ibadan
Why you sef no show d guy all dose erosion landslide area
eyin igbo man ka fine houses (igbos build fine houses)

i specifically took him on a tour of owerri and he had to admit how ignorant he was of the east and said he would surly come back during xmas. the flexing was too much, he wants more

blithe2nice:
Even if I will have time to go cast my vote that day sha,pdp and apc is not an option at all. Smaller party with low thiefy thiefy history will do. Because I believe all politicians in Nigeria for now are thieves. My fellow edolites, please do adopt my option. I rst my case ....

localblood:
Pack which wire? Yawa go dey oh.......am just anxiously waiting for them though

Ramnon2:
Can you beat those shofisticated b-roofs?

Ramnon2:
Can you beat those shofisticated b-roofs?

TippyTop:
You'd have to be batshit insane to vote the dullard again.

illuminated93:
I'm a lover of the biafra ideology; why ?Because I know we, igbos have no future under one nigeria. To that extent I wish for a biafra where fairness will take centre stage.

Just this afternoon,I read that,the federal government have resolved to cite a seaport in badagry. What do we expect,this is a government of the yorubas and hausas,so it's only right for them to do well for their regions.
must you wait for fg to build sea port for you if you're serious get concession

An ijaw man was president for 6yrs,he never completed the 2nd niger bridge,he never allowed igbos to make use of the onne seaport;The other day Apc had the guts to ask bayelsans to show them one single structure Gej gave them other than a university,do you blame them?
yet una carry d mumu for head till today
To the igbos,we don't need to clamour for or defend jonathan,this same man is in favour of one nigeria. So what are we talking about? The need to draw all our investments back home,the need to admonish our senators to present bills that will help us make use of the seaports in Delta,Portharcourt and calabar. With this, we will be fine,and we can leave lagos for the lagosian. Its a shame igbos don't get their priorities right,if we get this one's, naturally over time a broad coalition of economically empowered easterners capable of challenging the government will spring up,then biafra won't be a mirage.
Cc
Conqueredwest
Cheruv
Israeliairforce
Adaure4ever

All concerned igbos, excluding the Hausa/fulani ,yoruba and rev fr Ejike mbaka can have their say.

SonofDevil:
No this is complete thrash,
I doubt the credibility of these news

anambra exports $5million, ugu every month,

Onitsha is the industrial hub of nigeria

Ogbete market is home to raw Feaces for manure

Ibadan is a brown roof city which is not economic viable should not be on that list

kogistar:
useless governor, see how he is busy eating our money like suya

ogorwyne:

Rikov:
my friend go eat a dick..... if the media could report her frying akara, why not this?..... fake ass govt and fans..

clefstone:
but the media reported her sharing rice to e-Zombies na