When does religion become myth?

Question

And how long will it take for modern day religions to be classed as mythology?

Answer 1

Religion is a set of beliefs. Some believe its a myth, some believe it real. The greeks believed in Zeus and Hermes, etc. but now its mythology based on out beliefs. I think that while culture changes, religion will change to fit societies needs and the old ideas of modern religion will ultimately become myths to people in the future. So, its not really known when, but i think it depends on how fast society advances

Answer 2

It will become myth when it is taken over by another major religion, like it happened to ancient Greek and Roman gods. I think as long as it takes for people to convert into a new religion for the old one to be classed as myth. Could be many hundreds of years, but could be over night.

Answer 3

In the The Open University Humanities course the text navigates a very obscure course around the topic of religion, trying ever so hard to conceal scorn but failing miserably. The teaching suggests that all religion is myth, man-made, a product of the natural environment, occuring like mist and rainbows in a natural way. Nothing new there.
It is most remarkable that scholars and academics can be so dogmatic and assertive in their teaching modules about the non-existence of God that they cannot find a single scrap of evidence to prove the non-existence of someone who is Spirit.
Did they dissolve the Spirit in a test tube and separated out the elements using the heat from a naked flame or by chemical reaction? Did they pin the Spirit of God to a table and with a delicate twist of the wrist with a scalpel dissect the inner parts? Did they measure the light with a spectrometer?

To see God you first have to be born by His Spirit in to His family. Without birth it is impossible to know God. Flesh gives birth to flesh - and out of this comes dialectical materialism. The Spirit gives birth to Spirit - and out of this comes dialectical eternity and the ability to see and hear and worship God.

How can people speak with authority on whether God exists or not when they haven't been born into His kingdom? It's like a fetus telling his/her mother that she doesn't exist! The world is full of unborn spirits who pluck words out of the air to describe their unbelief in such an impressive and articulate manner that one wonders sometimes what precisely is it they are trying to describe as non-existent? This is the dilemna of the unborn, technically dead as spirits, trying to justify the rational position of resisting the birth canal by negatively describing a world beyond the womb they know absolutely zero about.

Truly, all the wisdom and knowledge in the world will be of no use on the day when God shows the spiritual fetus the birth it rejected.

Mythology? Yes, to those who have rejected God - as I did once. To those who haven't, a revelation of a new birth in Christ. The removal of the curtain that conceals God.

Here's tract to help you - http://www.inteligent.co.uk/mag/state.htm

Answer 4

Religion only becomes a myth when you die, religions only become mythology when it is not handed down generation by generation or after 1000's years

Answer 5

When you start screwing around with the facts. You are already seeing it. They're all all rejected from the highest authority perceiveable. Including the science community religion where, if you're a nice boy, eat your veggies, tow the ' party line ' and agree with the ' prevailing wisdom ' of ridiculous nonsense posing as science, we'll even let you have a research grant.

Answer 6

faith will constantly be, regrettably. there'll constantly be people who're too lazy or cheating to confess that there is plenty in this existence, worldwide, and universe that desires answering and to pass look for those solutions. they could rather some thing very truthfully conceal all the tricky issues so as that they do no longer could think of approximately it. human beings purely prefer an answer. no longer unavoidably a appropriate one, yet purely an answer of a few style. optimistically, a minimum of here in u . s . a . of america, faith dies off quickly so as that i do no longer could hassle approximately my babies popping out like my sisters did (they do no longer even understand what evolution IS, no longer to indicate that's value. They do, even with the undeniable fact that, understand approximately god and creationism).

Answer 7

Where else can u sell something I cannot touch, see, smell. God loves us yet science gives us a cat scan to explain the infancy of the human mind. Wars tell us that we all believe that there is only one god, but where is he? I would love to go to heaven and meet elvis and john lennon but its not gonna happen. If i had tangeable evedence that there is an afterlife the vatican would have me locked up. The only thing I know is george bush should be in a mental health intitution.

Answer 8

Point of View.

Myth is what non-believers call a religion.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

Answer 9

They become myths at inception. "religion" just means they are popular myths. Once a "religion" basically dies and there are no more followers of it, then people revert to calling it a myth.

Answer 10

"And how long will it take for modern day religions to be classed as mythology?"

When they can be completely proven wrong = never.