Question:
If a worldwide tenet teaching that we are one race, 'the human race' if borders were removed and we all?
Nikon f5
2009-11-11 03:03:39 UTC
became citizens of the world, do you think the world would be in a better place/position than it is now with religion being the main influence, which only serves to segregate and label people? Would the world be better if xenophobia were not possible?
If we were taught that we are the same instead of being divided would the world benefit?
Instead of people clutching and fighting for their own bit of the world we looked further and encompass all as the same race, each just trying to get through another day?
Does the existence of religion and it's labeling system through denomination segregate society?
Seven answers:
2009-11-11 03:10:19 UTC
No, people are going to separate and break off into different groups anyway, regardless of whether or not religion is a factor. Forcing everybody to be the same country and same culture is just totalitarianism.
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2009-11-11 04:33:53 UTC
Yes.



It is logically much more proficient to strive to increase the unity of the species, instead of the deleterious power of division which is an inherent principle effect of world-wide, and constantly permeating religious organizations. As an undereducated humanitarian, and as a self-acclaimed citizen of one world, it is my primal goal, to support philosophical education, so people like yourself, become more aware of what it means to be human, and in turn realize the benefits of unitive efforts to solve global problems, such as poverty, inequality, war, and philosophical dilemmas such as: ethic misconceptions, the reality of prejudice, scientific pursuits, and political agendas. Surely one day we will either die divided, or stand united, but that fate is up to the efforts of each and every individual from now into the future.



Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, takes on a whole new meaning, when the individual realizes the dimension of life MLK pronounced with his audacious voice in his lecture at Yale university; "all life is interrelated". In knowing this one realizes that reality, the world, life itself, is a shared unity, and that what one man or woman contributes to the world affects all other men in an intangible weaving of fate, and destiny that our precious and unknowing children, and all offspring of every earth bound being will have to live in tomorrow.



It is our mission as people, to either make this life, and this world more of a hell, or more of a heaven. Some have given up on goals, and see life as pointless, happenstance, chaos, these people, so heavily inspired by the philosophy of the a-moralist, and at base level a denier of existence named Nietzsche, and the simple analysis of the self of Descartes, are no better then neurotic, self-deluded American people that call themselves religious or Atheistic. We are all apart of the human race, and if you don't know what the means at a very deep level then you aren't really living.



It should be the individuals calling, the individuals humanistic task, for the world to be dominated by democracy, and egalitarianism, instead of the world domination of religious authoritarian command. The time is long over due that we set aside our decaying traditions, and unite in the eternal flow of unselfish love which streams through the conduits of every living thing, from the protozoa to the elephant, from the hardworking ant, to the hardworking man. It is our love for one another that will set us free from the bounds of self-love, which is of the ego. It is our love for one another that will unite us, so we can do away with war, educate our children, live in harmony with nature and our individuality, and explore space, both inner and outer (Referenced: Bill hicks) forever and always until the end of our time. That is a mission worth living for, and it is your choose, a free one at that to awaken to the true creating power that is the heart and soul of all that you and every one else truly is here in the great and marvelous world we can call home, or more suitably the greater self.
beait
2009-11-11 03:10:55 UTC
I think it would help a great deal.



Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who is up for denying a persons right to their belief system though.



What I am apposed to, is when it impacts negatively on society, and religion as far as I can see, does indeed cause division.
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2016-10-18 15:38:57 UTC
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fractal
2009-11-11 03:27:47 UTC
as far as i'm concerned, the borders have always been imaginary, though that is a massive simplification of the matter, and there are good and valid reasons - on biological grounds - as to why people will seek to group themselves according to a variety of factors, religion being but one of them. the teaching you speak of is already here (at least for anyone who has bothered to keep up to date with the goings on of the genome project), it needs better propagation (read: a much more sophisticated education system, if you will).



biology has important lessons to teach us about the natural drives which motivate our behaviour. religion, philosophy and any sort of metaphysical (or even mystical) enquiry can speak to how we can overcome the baser aspects of ourselves and attempt to look even further, even deeper, to over-reach and surmount the challenges we are faced with.



labelling may serve to segregate, if we allow it to (i mean, who's in control here?! ) but it also serves to enhance, to communicate, to express, to forge a sense of identity and community. it's going global but that does not mean there has to be total homogeny. the french in me says "vive la différence!", the idealist in me says "let's get your manifesto up and running my friend!".
Common Anomaly
2009-11-11 03:11:28 UTC
I think the answers are pretty obvious here! "Yes" across the board.



But this is idealism, sadly. I only hope that I live to see us become significantly closer to this kind of world.
BIll Q
2009-11-11 03:19:02 UTC
If we couldn't use xenophobia to hate each other, we would figure out some other reason to hate each other.


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