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Mythblaster · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 2:50 am Post subject: Will Religion Die?

With mankind becoming more scientific and technological, and society becoming more and more ambivalent toward religion, do you think the main religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, could die out almost entirely, in the following century?

Those who are entrenched in them right now will possibly never change their ways, but the generations now, and in the future, are gonna ask more and more questions to those that would enduce them into a religion. And when these questions cannot be answered, which they will not, there will be first a rebellion against these traditions, and then there will be an abandonement of them, I feel.

Already we see asian girls who fight not to be part of a loveless arranged marriage. We see Jewish men getting operations to replace the part of them that was violated without their say so - their foreskin.

In 100 years or less? What do you think?

seattlegal · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 1:55 pm Post subject:

Religion will not die out. (But then, my definition of religion is probably much broader than yours.) I noticed how you left out Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Taoism, all of which have more followers than Judaism. I would suspect that you have a problem with Abrahamic faiths. JMHO.
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dox4242 · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 2:54 pm Post subject:

No, I do not feel the Abrahamic faiths will die in 100, or 1000 years (maybe 10 or 20,000, though). If the religious leaders continue to try to shape and form the faith of religionists (insistence on certain traditions in the face of better, more sensical ideas), the numbers of followers will drop. But really, what do those numbers mean? How many included in those counts are only there half-heartedly, or empty-heartedly? Those will be the people who won't care if science negates Christianity. Although, if you think about it, how can science negate any religion? Certain myths and legends may eventually be dispelled, but even if Jesus Christ was proven, beyond the shadow of a hair turning on the head of doubt, to have never existed, why would that mean Christians would have to stop being Christians? Their numbers may drop, and new converts may become harder to come by, but a Christian's faith in Jesus is as strong as a scientist's faith in physics (neither of which is more provable than the other).
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Mythblaster · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 4:44 pm Post subject:

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seattlegal · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 8:01 pm Post subject:

Mythblaster · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2023 9:48 pm Post subject:

Well, whatever your source, I am speaking of all religions anyway. A century is a long time it seems, and if you look back at history, you will see that many old customs, practices, and even religions and races, no longer exist. Either they have been wiped out by the more dominant one's, or science has come along and proven to them that the sun is not a god, but a huge ball of fire and gas! That is only one example, but you take my meaning?

When this was shown, it was natural for people to feel a sense of detachment from the very things they held true, and eventually that tradition or custom or religion, it died out.

We live in an increasingly technological age. That is only going to increase. People no longer want to live in ignorance and obscurity, they want answers and explainations, and they want it in a straightforward way. Religion cannot provide that.

We live in an age where people are not afraid, and people do not take haven and hell seriously, an age where they are not guilty about being hedonistic.

When the last stone, from the last church, in the last city, collapses with those who should preach from them, we will have taken a huge step toward civilisation imo.

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Mythblaster · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2023 3:42 am Post subject:

chunkymonkey · Can anybody hear me? Joined: 16 Jan 2024 Posts: 141

about the question.
i would have said 'no', but then the fact that five hundred years ago people of the current United Kingdom were being burnt alive for not being Catholic. They were Protestant people who had a choice whether to be Catholic or to burn, and those who died had enough faith in Protestantism to refuse.
However, nowadays despite there are Christians and Christianity is still the widest spread religion in the world, so many people have lost faith in God altogether, so many people are athiest or agnostic.
Why is it that turmoil kept religion alive those years ago, and today some people have turned their backs on religion altogether?

Rat_bytes · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2024 2:44 am Post subject:

It's because people are becoming more educated. The more educated someone is, the more they say things like "hang on a minute, that doesn't sound right."
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blondeno21 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2024 9:02 am Post subject:

I forsee the Protestant church becoming what the Catholic church was in the Middle Ages--fighting holy wars against Muslims and forcing conversions.
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skywalker · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2024 8:12 pm Post subject:

someone mentioned technology,

eventually we'll have most of this stuff figured out. and what then? i think when we've don'e all the building, killing and discovering we'll be left with one burining set of questions: 'who, what and why.'

the revalation wil be that we cannot ever know anything no matter how powerfull our tools are or how broad the minds. then we wil again need to fall back on faith. that is if it doesn't cuase some kind of holy war (again) and destroy us all.

que cera cera right?
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Rat_bytes · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2024 1:29 am Post subject: