# What difference would it make if Atheist ruled the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 2, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188 "2013-10-02T15:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/361 "2013-10-03T18:30:06Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > Well at first glance, that list seems to be much better and not self serving. This is what Atheist would need if they ruled the world. What does any of this have to do with ruling the world?? You are running two topics here, it seems: 1. What do atheists do as a group that equate or better the groups you mentioned in the OP, and 2. What would happen if atheists ruled the world. These two topics have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and both have already been answered repeatedly…so what do you want? ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/362 "2013-10-03T18:32:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What does any of this have to do with ruling the world?? You are running two topics here, it seems: > > 1. What do atheists do as a group that equate or better the groups you mentioned in the OP, and > 2. What would happen if atheists ruled the world. > > These two topics have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and both have already been answered repeatedly…so what do you want? You have found more fault; you should be happy, what better could it be for you? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/363 "2013-10-03T18:33:13Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > I am demanding explinations and I am not debating? > > So just what do you suggest I do differently? Well, make an argument that theism is necessary, I guess, and not just by listing theistic charitable organizations. Is there something about theism that is necessary for cooperative and productive human effort? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/364 "2013-10-03T18:33:51Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > You have found more fault; you should be happy, what better could it be for you? Go be a martyr on your own time. What I would like is clarification of the purpose of this tread from the person that started it-you. ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/365 "2013-10-03T18:36:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Go be a martyr on your own time. What I would like is clarification of the purpose of this tread from the person that started it-you. I could never please you on anything; I just don’t know how??? I really don’t know how to talk to explosive situations??? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/366 "2013-10-03T18:37:51Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > Well anyway, as we near the closing of this thread, I do see some signs now, which I did not see at first, that Atheist could indeed rule this world; but I have seen no evidence that such a rule would make the world " Much" different than it is now. and you are/were the only one claiming that it would. nice to win such a debate, isnt it? ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/367 "2013-10-03T18:38:39Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, make an argument that theism is necessary, I guess, and not just by listing theistic charitable organizations. Is there something about theism that is necessary for cooperative and productive human effort? Okay let me get this straight; you want me to argue that Theism is necessary. Don’t make any more list, ( which I won’t), and then discuss Theism a bit more? Is this what you want me to do? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/368 "2013-10-03T18:38:50Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > I am demanding explinations and I am not debating? > > So just what do you suggest I do differently? Stop and then consider the wisdom of “An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition” ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/369 "2013-10-03T18:40:18Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Stop and then consider the wisdom of “An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition” Okay, I can remember that; anythingelse? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/370 "2013-10-03T18:43:12Z")
Well the stop bit would be good. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/371 "2013-10-03T18:44:17Z")
> [@Mickiel](#): > > I could never please you on anything; I just don’t know how??? You could start by answering his fucking questions. ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/372 "2013-10-03T18:44:21Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Well the stop bit would be good. What is that? How do I do that? ---
**Author:** ![Mickiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Mickiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/373 "2013-10-03T18:45:25Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You could start by answering his fucking questions. Sure, what questions? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188/374 "2013-10-03T18:48:10Z")
Enough already. **Mickiel** , if you do this again it will be treated as trolling and that may be the end of your time here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-difference-would-it-make-if-atheist-ruled-the-world/670188.md?page=18)