I truly believe that if no one on earth was left except popstars and stans that their would still be wars going on. Stanbases would just start geographically shifting together and wars would be had over opinions of albums or receipts.

No. Religion is the source of alot of problems and world issues.

Considering that religion only contributes less than a tenth in human conflicts and wars, it's existence or removal would hardly make a difference to world peace. Most wars in the world is caused by governments and politics. Would we finally achieve world peace if we eliminated the biggest cause of wars?

Excuse me? Religion is probably the major contributor to most of the issues in humanity. It's why we are where we are today.

No. Religion is based upon fear.

No. Some wars are about nationality, and some about borders and political systems. East-Ukraine and Korea are two examples.

I think that more prosperity in poor countries and less dependency on natural resources will automatically cause a more politically stable, democratic world. What the Western countries can do is giving more foreign aid to speed up the process of economic growth in Africa and South Asia. Less oil dependency will help the Middle East get rid of its undemocraticness.

Religion exacerbates already-present tensions by promoting divisiveness, an 'us vs. them' mentality, and certainty of rightousness of position. So no, absolutely not!

The way society is, no. We are too different and people at the top are too power hungry. If we were a united world without language barriers, I could see it being a lot easier. But the way things are, we are taught to hate people different from us, and this gives excuse for war.

Also, humans are a flawed species. We don't have anything that makes us perfect, just overrated animals. People can blame religion but ultimately it's our own fault.

Politics divides people more than religion does. Look at countries which were once one nation with the same ethnicity, culture and religion and how they got split because of differences in political ideologies - North and South Korea, PRC and ROC, The Netherlands and Flanders, former Yugoslav states, Gran Colombia. Religion can unite people morally and spiritually, that is what religion concerns, and to an extent politically as in the case of the Arab world, the biggest sociopolitical organized unit in the world. 1.6 billion Muslims and 1.2 billion Catholics with the same views and sentiments about major issues united by their religions. Without religion the world would even be more disorganized and divided than we already are. And there is no us vs them mentality that still exists today in most religions as they are pluralists especially the eastern religions.You will see people in East Asia practicing multiple faiths altogether. And the biggest denominations of Christianity are tolerant of other faith as well. Except for Islam which is still on the crusade for world domination, most religions have already learned to coexist peacefully with one another.

The Yugoslav war was because of religions for a very large part. The Netherlands and Flanders divided because the Netherlands was protestant while Flanders was catholic.

The Middle East is hugely divided. You have shiites on one side (Iran, Houthi-rebellions, IS) and sunnits on the other side (Saudi Arabia and many other countries). Christianity also used to be this divided, and it still shows in culture. Greece is traditionally the most pro-Russian country in the EU, because of the Eastern Orthodox religion they share.

Religion unites people, but also divides people. I live in the Netherlands, and before the social revolution, you had catholic and protestant clubs, schools, hospitals, districts, etc. If you were a protestant, you'd only ever meet protestants basically. After the 60's, the amount of atheists grew a lot and now hospitals don't have a religion anymore, religion doesn't play a big role at all in schools, only 1 in 20 of the people goes to church every week, religion doesn't have such big influence in politics anymore (shops are slowly becoming able to open on sunday depending on how christian the city you live in is) and everything coexists.

It's the people themselves that want to divide not religion. One goal of religion, especially Christianity (being a true global religion since it encompasses most of the other religious belief systems), is to unite all people around the world and break the racial, cultural, and political barriers among them. But it is in the nature of man to divide himself into groups. It's not religion's fault. And division is inevitable in a democratic world. If communism failed to bring people together, the more democracy can and will never make that happen, especially in individualistic societies such as the West. There are more bigger factors for the disunity of people than religion.

No. Religion is the root of... not all evils... but a good amount.

World peace is impossible to achieve with religion and capitalism plaguing the world.

Not until people manage to put their differences aside.

Until we still have race (which doesn't exist) as a way to separate us. Sexism as a way to belittle people by their sex or gender, and other forms of prejudice then it will never happen.

It's not possible with or without.

If anything, religion is the only thing stopping this world from being a 100% war zone because a lot of people are afraid to do the wrong in fear from their religion.

NO. Only education and evolution will.