How would you react?

I think there would be a reset of morals. There would be no right and no wrong. It would feel kinda awkward. But it is good to be moral in that kind of situation. Keeping the faith when all else fails.

I completely agree with angela, good and bad exist even if one doesn't believe in god. Good has to be made for good's sake not to have something back in the afterlife.

I think this is how atheists think. They do good morals but not believe in God. I know of an athiest who keeps telling me that God is fiction, that all religion are fiction. I didn't disagree and I didn't agree either. I just respected his beliefs.

Maybe beings from another planet, or some religion that has amassed a legion of members, or a former vatican leader. Just so.

I think that all religions imply a god (or gods) of some kind. I can't think of one religion (in the usual meaning of the word) which doesn't. Even the Great Spaghetti Monster is accorded the status of God by His followers. Now, considering that a religion's real purpose is to perpetuate itself as an organisation (by ostensibly promoting the worship of and obedience to the deities it professes), I cannot see any likelihood that any religion, as such, will be honest enough to tell its followers that everything it teaches is a big lie! A 'former Vatican leader'? I hardly think so! He would immediately be discredited by the rest of the Church (who elected him, don't forget) by reference to the first verse of Psalm 14. There are plenty of people (even of other faiths than Catholic or Christian) who believe - indeed know - that they have had direct experience of God. There will still be plenty to laugh and ask for proof that there is no God! If we ever encounter beings from another planet who have no religion, I am quite sure that there would be a big movement to 'give' them religion or else to class them as animals: moderately bright ones, perhaps, if they ever arrive on this earth - but animals because they have no word for 'God'. Who, by the way, says that animals have no soul or knowledge of God?

I think man and animals are just the same. Man is just much more cruel and brutal. And the speech barrier is just what differentiates us from them. Animals have more respect for nature than man. On the other hand, man continously creates a world for his own. Who ever said that the world should be divided into countries, it's just one big land from the point of view of animals. Man complicates his own life then turns to God for hope and worship. There's also a belief that religion was created to explain what science could not. And that the creation of a God, could very well solve most of science's problems. If the origin of man could not be determined, lets put it in religion and tell the world god created man. Then religious doctrines got interpreted in so many different ways which gave birth to new religions. Then man became focused on their beliefs, overshadowing science. But going back, there was no God in the beginning that man knew. And that is why the Book of genesis started " In the beginning...." And when was that? just the beginning...for convenience sake. To state that God was there in the beginning...a very uncertain statement if you'd ask me.

Disconnection from even myself!

There you go. The feeling of insignificance comes when we feel that there is no higher power guiding us. Disconnection? From the chi of life?

That's deep my friend.

Yes, I believe so too.

Would life lose direction if this happens? Or do you think that life will be just the same?

Its still depends on an individuals decisions i guess. Life could be worst, or could be better too.

Isn't that quote the basis for Communism? That's a system that has never worked!

Can I just ask? Are you an atheist? If so, how did you become one?

If it is just a 'feeling in your heart', it is illogical to say that God is on your side. In fact, it's usually illogical in any case. There have been numerous wars in which both sides have fervently believed that God was 'on their side'. Someone had to be wrong: was anyone right?