Will humanity ever "outgrow" religion?

Answer 1

Humanity has outgrown many religions throuout the eons. Religion is a God of The Gaps so to speak. It is used to explain that which there is currently no mundane explanation for. People of The Hellenistic era believed that night was caused by Helios pulling the sun across the sky with his chariot. They also believed that the seasons changed because Demeter was sad when her daughter Persephonne went to the underworld to be with her forced husband Hades. The Norse people belived that thunder and lightening were caused by Thor wielding his hammer.

Nowadays however we know that day and night are caused by the Earth rotating on it's Axis and one side is away from the sun. We also know that the seasons change beacuse The Earth is also rotating around the sun itself. We also know that thunder and lightning are caused by hot and cold airfronts meeting. Thus the gap has closed and we have no more need for Helios, Thor, and Demeter.

These religions were outgrown and as knowledge of science increases other religions too will eventually fall by the wayside.

Answer 2

Without a doubt it will, and I believe we are seeing the process right now. Unquestionably internet communication has played a big role in bringing people and their personal views into direct contact with others whom we would never even have known existed before this medium of communication. Prior to this, human beings have largely been influenced by the opinions and beliefs of their own family circle, and the community in which they have lived - and if they privately felt "out of step" with those local beliefs, many would feel reluctant to speak out. When you discover..."Wow, I'm not alone in the way I think and feel..... there are plenty of others out there who are on the exact same page".. it begins to change the whole equation. You start to recognise that you are not "OUT of step" - you're just walking with a different step, and have every right to do so. No doubt in my mind this "movement" will grow, and more and more people will have the courage to question (probably for the first time) why they came to believe whatever it was they have believed since childhood - and why have they always considered what they were taught, to be "the ultimate truth"? Once this "movement picks up steam and gets on a roll, I see a pretty dramatic shift in the whole way that people begin to think, and feel, about the traditional concepts of religous belief. More and more people will not only begin asking the once virtually forbidden question "why", but they will be demanding much more for an answer than just ..... "because God says so"

Answer 3

Yes and no. Religion fills a role of a culturally extended family. Many people speculate that religiosity is so high in the United States because it's a nation of immigration and constant migration. As a substitute for extended family, religion fills a community role.

But, there is evidence to support the idea that the superstition of religion will eventually be cast aside. It's happening now in "post Christian" Europe, and parts of the United States, like New York and San Francisco.

Answer 4

It may but it will never outgrow spirituality. This has been present throughout history as well as before.. The Australian aboriginals being most easily brought to mind. Then we also have the native Americans who are very heavily into the spiritual thinking and living.

Answer 5

By "outgrow" are you declaring that humanity is getting better? If so, get real! The inhumanity of humankind is atrocious, and growing!

Religion? Not needed. What is needed is for human beings to come back to God in repentance and faith: "I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes unto the Father except by me" (John 14:6, Jesus).

Answer 6

A few intelligent already did.

Read "Rational Spirituality" available on the Dhaxem website.

Conveyed from the Source only in February 2006, it is already a major force amongst the thinking people. One day, sooner than most would believe, it will replace the religions with the sheer power of its logic.

Answer 7

I have answered this question a few times. As an atheist I wish it were possible. I know, however, that there will always be people that need religion. Just as people will always see the need for leaders in any facet of life. Some people are born to rule, some are born to be ruled. Some people are born to be doctors, others are born to mop floors. Not necessarily based on genetics or any social hierarchy but based on goals and what you are willing to accept in life.

Answer 8

Humanity, perhaps not, as there is evidence that religious belief is not as much of a "choice" as it is a societal expectation and indoctrinated belief, however, I believe that intelligent and reformed society will eventually look down on such indoctrination and blind faith, and religion will compose the organizations most mocked and ignored and the religious will be the ostracized. Sounds like reform to me.

Answer 9

Religious will not outgrow anything but human doggy will outgrow oneself to overcome others.

Answer 10

The first sign a species is becoming sentient is when they have evolved to the point where they can abstract enough to invent a god. The first time a species achieves sentient maturity is when they get rid of their gods. Some of us are already there, but the boneheads are breeding beyond societies ability to turn them into rational beings.