So as I look around I watch as people prefer acts of kindness, good deeds, and creating a better environment. Often I see this being preformed in the name of a god. People do good deeds because they want eternal peace, or they think they are being watched. Then you look at the stereotypical atheist you see complaining about people trying to change them, though ironically I often see them trying to persuade the world there is no god (maybe I am just doing that right now I don’t know). So one of my questions is doesn't that just make them as bad as religious fanatics?
Continuing towards my point.
Now I start to think what might get with religious believers -assuming the whole world was Christian- we might get peace, prosperity, good will, friendlier atmosphere, and a great deal of world friendly deeds. For the downside of a Christian environment you may see a lack in science, possibly arguing on different ways to teach the same thing. Then I also wonder what if the whole world was atheist? I think disputes over how to do certain task would end, but in there fall new possibly more threatening ones would arrive.
Imagine if everyone has no reason to do good things, there are no attempts at eternal happiness. If we were extremely lucky it may work. I think our science and technology would advance at a much faster rate; there would be no one stopping you to say that’s against god’s will or no depute about contradicting ‘god’.
Therefore to me the way I see things now I see a slim chance at a united atheist world, and a great chance at an untied Christian world. So in all of this thought I am thinking is there a way to have an atheist world in the Christian way of improving the world
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You have some interesting thoughts. Consider that the major conflict in the world right now is between fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims.
How do we resolve the conflict of different opinions over what is essentially the same religious story?
Atheists are a small minority in the world. Atheists adhere to an intellectual view that doesn't allow for myths and fantasies. In general, people need myths and fantasies to explain things that they don't understand. It brings them comfort.
I think that it's definitely a stereotype to say the atheists are "gloomy" and Christians are "cheerful". You can't really make generalizations like that without some hard facts. I know a lot of cheerful atheists and some gloomy Christians, too.
The best point you make is that the world would likely be happier with just one unified point of view. The problem is that you either have to change a lot of minds, or kill a lot of people to accomplish that.
I'm impressed with your depth of thought. There are no easy answers in philosophy.
Throw in a few paragraph breaks to make it easier to read.
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