Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.