John Lennon imagined a world without anything to kill or die for. The world would be "as one." There would be no need for greed or hunger. We would all share the world in peace.Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
What is the price of this utopia? Part of that fee would be our giving up religion, but would doing so buy us the world that Lennon imagined? It's hard to say because some places like Japan are well off and are without religion. Other places like North Korea are not so well off without religion. So the results of dispensing with religion are evidently mixed.
My question, then, for religious unbelievers (or anybody) is do you think Lennon is right? Without religion is there nothing to kill or die for? If we dispense with religion can we live in peace sharing all the world as one?
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