What would humanity be like, if religion and after-life never occured to any of us ?
141722
There would be absolutely no change at all.
855925
Depends on some of your beliefs as to what you should believe on this one.  If you believe in evolution, we won't be humans more than likely.  We will have evolved into some other species, maybe more than one species.  That is assuming that human life did last long enough to evolve.  It is impossible to destroy all life on earth, but a nuclear war would more than likely destroy all human existence on earth.  So in essence, people would be eradicated.  But life would continue somewhere, maybe frozen in Antarctic ice or underground or at the bottom of the ocean.  And when the earth becomes livable again, that life will evolve again.  It will take different forms than what is here today, but it will continue.\n\nIf on the other hand you believe in creation, then God has promised that humans will be around forever, and the earth as well.  And it doesn't matter which religious book you go to (the Bible, the Qu'ran, the Talmud/Torah, even the Amida Buddha or any other book you'd like), they all say that God promised life to humans for eternity.  The bad ones are supposed to be removed in most of them, the exception being the Amida Buddha, which says all souls will learn to be good sooner or later in their travels through various lives.  They will do so so they can attain that which they strive for, Nirvana (or lack of want).  But humans as a species will survive.
791814
none, because I want to accept things as I see them, not how others, and especially ancients see or saw them. the religions of today are to old and full of crap to be relevant in today's society. religion has caused more major wars in the history of mankind than any other single factor. Lack of religion has caused none. ever heard of an atheist st. petersburg? Have you ever heard of an athiest saying "i killed them because no god told me to"?
67815
THERE WOULD NOT BE LIFE
5260
What if God (or Goddess) was all of us and then some?
444230
I think there must be because no matter how hard i try, theres no way i can imagine not existing, like u kina imagine blackness but there wouldn't even be that if we were just nothing.\n\nBut maybe we never existed in that time but God new the descendants would be created in the future.\n\nWho knows man!\n\nI would like to think theres life b4 birth tho, would be kinda nice
819219
It wouldn't change it at all. I don't assume there is a god. I try to be a good person "for Goodness' Sake," not to receive some heavenly reward from a bearded man in the sky.
916126
Forget about religion ! Even the current human civilization based on nuclear fission will not last long. It will give way to  a civilization based on bones & ashes. Religion will be replaced by spiritualism in which man will worship the God in his heart with the help of his mind.
407241
Life before and after death, my view:\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7dNzZV06cpnGmuKQRUwj0WV6Ig--?cq=1&p=1
727516
You've been reading 2 MANY  "Holy Books"\nFear NOTHING and NOBODY , Fear death \nNOT  , and LIFE will be SO interesting ! ....
1097876
In some sense, society and culture can be viewed as a non-material aspect of our beings, so you have to be very careful about what you mean in this question. No, I don't believe in an after-life. When we die, we're dead and we have no consciousness left. It's like a candle that has been blown out. The flame no longer exists. I don't believe in spirits in the sense of some disembodied energy with consciousness. \n\nOn the other hand, I regard myself as a spiritual atheist. I believe that life is to be lived fully and happily. I believe that we should look around us and enjoy the beauty of the universe. I believe that we should love, and learn, and teach, and help others to achieve their goals. But I need no after-life to induce me to do these things. It is simply part of having a good life.
729726
yes definitely\n\nthere are some questions that science just cant provide answers to, and until we have scientific proof of everything (which i dont personally think will ever happen, but thats just my opinion) there will always be room for religion.\n\nand anyway - religion provides existence with a meaning. if we just took a scienfitic view - we are born, we exist, we die. and thats it. so whats the point? why bother being nice to people?  why bother with trying to gain respect/earn money/build relationships? sure we're all going to die anyway.\n\nor at least, thats what science says. religion begs to differ.\n\nand by the way - before anyone criticises me - im a scientist.
319629
There is nothing.  Its the same as life was before you were conceived...no thought, no light, no heaven/hell/reincarnation...nothing.\n\nLife ends, and I don't fear this.  I DO fear dying, but not ceasing to be.  Think about it, many religions include life never-ending (with reincarnation or an afterlife), but no one knows for sure.  So, where did this information come from?  Only rumor, speculation, and assumption.  You might as well describe what life is like on Pluto...no one knows.
186338
no reproduction, human race would die out
1057541
Well, that would depend on your point of view.  Since there was no universe in existence before time zero, you would have to be inside of the rapidly expanding newborn universe.  Therefore, inside, there would've been extreme heat and pressures.  My guess is that you wouldn't have noticed any sound as you were boiled away into your constituent atoms.  So, I'm thinking a silent and dark time (as your eyes would've also been boiled off, so there would've been nothing to see with).
1129883
Depends how you define everlasting. Nothing can be everlasting because eventually the unviserse will collapse destroying all information that ever was.\n\nIf you mean everlasting in terms of something that exists from the time after the last human until the time the universe is detroyed, then yeah I'm sure they'll come up with something. A statue of me would be nice.
12538
no.\n\npeace on earth\n\nThere will not be peace on earth until all humans are eliminated because good and evil are only concepts of humans.