If God didn't exist we'd have to have invented him. You don't seriously think that we as a race would take the blame or responsibility for everything we've done down the centuries? Good idea though: can you imagine the state of the Republican party? And what about all those stupid Creationists? Would they just pop out of existence? Please say they would! :D

On a side note: if anyone is going to contribute to a thread with one-line stupid comments and insults it makes me wonder why they bother to come into these threads at all. Immaturity maybe? It's wearing a little thin though I must say...

@ Tristesse: does everything have to revolve around your wang, man? :rofl: (Oh God! Now he wants one big as the bloody planet!!) :laughing:

C'mon, you gotta leave me with something to work with.

I don't think getting rid of religion would do much honestly.

If you get rid of religion there would be something in place of it that would pop to take on the same role as religion.

That would also be religion then.

It wouldn't have be religion exactly though.

If it was taking the role of religion though, it would be religion?

I see the reasoning.

If it were truly filling the same role as religion it would.

I think I know what you mean. If someone decided say, for instance, with the rise in technology that computers were the dominant lifeform then there would be a religion built around that. Same for I guess musicians or clairvoyants, or anything you like to mention. As I said, if God did/does not exist we would have to invent him, as basically we're a species who can't take responsibility for our own actions and always have to blame a higher power, even if that is only bad luck or unfairness.

Here's a thing: I had an idea for a TV series I posted a while back, based upon the idea of the Earth being destroyed by a passing neutron star fragment (I think; I saw it on a docu on telly) and everyone who could abandoning the planet and heading off in a space-ark to find a new home. I thought about it and I think a religion/cult would have evolved upon that ship ("New Horizons" --- how original is that?) which consisted of people who believed God had decided Earth's time was up and sent the neutron star, and it was not our place to try to avoid that fate by fleeing the Earth. These people --- I called the cult the Order of the Dark Star --- would make a point of trying to sabotage and disrupt the mission, to try to bring about the total destruction of humanity in what they saw as accordance with God's will.

Precisely no TV networks have signed up. They'll be sorry when it's a box-office smash blockbuster. Yeah. They'll all be sorry.... :shycouch:

Disease.

Okay, good one. But as I pointed out in the OP, think about it and its ramifications. If there was no disease then you'd have a lot of people living longer and the population would explode, so are diseases (philosophically speaking, I don't of course mean this to be taken literally) a kind of safety valve to ensure the planet doesn't end up supporting more lives than it can?

Are you talking about a specific one -- AIDS, cancer, Miley Cyrus --- or all diseases?