Once death is eliminated through organ regeneration, anti-aging DNA repair therapy, cloning, memory uploads..?

Question

...will religion slowly cease to exist? When people live forever I think the need to believe in an afterlife won't be necessary anymore because no longer will humanity be fearful of death and the unknown. What do you think?

Answer 1

I cant WAIT!!!!!! So look forward to that day!

Answer 2

Death cannot be eliminated by scientific means. Organ regeneration, anti-aging therapy, cloning, and memory transplants are all bodily considerations. When science promises that this will be possible someday, they are writing a post-dated check. What is it worth today? We can know all of the chemicals that make up the tree, but you cannot inject new chemicals into the tree and make a dead tree live again. Similarly, man does not live by the chemical activity of the body, but by the spark of life driving the body, and symptomized by consciousness. Once that spark of life is gone, no scientific method will regenerate the body, and no scientific process will contain that life forever. That being said, even if it were possible to ensure indefinite life span, how would that affect the world population, food supply, and environmental conservation? In addition, we have no way of knowing if this material existence is all that life offers. Perhaps leaving the body offers a better existence. Remaining confined to the material body where all of the senses are limited and tend to be faulty may be worse than the idea of "death".

Answer 3

Some religions do not believe in an afterlife. Judaism, for example, has no notion of an afterlife. There is much mysticism and discussion about death, true, but nothing about an afterlife, and certainly no notion of a "heaven or hell" type dichotomy that exists in christianity or catholicism.

I think religion is more than just a thing to cause one to believe in the possibility of an afterlife, if your religion teaches that. At its core, religion, ANY religion, is basically a collection of teachings offered to guide the everyday life of everyday people in the direction of good life and good deeds. Even immortality, if it could be achieved, would not cause one to necessarily believe in the differences between right and wrong. People would still perform whatever actions and reactions they may perform. (Science fiction brings some good examples of this problem to us with such ideas as brought forth by Highlander, a series about immortals who go around trying to kill each other to become the ultimate immortal.) Perhaps they might have a broader perspective to their consequences, but there would still be such consequences. There would still be people who perform good and others who perform evil. I doubt that the ability to become immortal would change that.

Answer 4

Some day we'll probably be able to live indefinitely if we so choose - but indefinitely is not forever. Violent death presumably will still be possible, whether by accident, murder or suicide. People who now believe in religion because they fear death will probably continue to do so.

Certainly there will still be a need for ethics and morals in a long-lived species. There are all sorts of religions which presently fill this need, some with believed-in afterlifes, some without.

Answer 5

I never thought of it but I think religion will cease to exist if something like that EVER happens although I doubt it will any time soon......

Answer 6

It isn't ever going to happen.
You are also assuming that there is no God. There might not be such thing as religion but my personal opinion is that there is a high power.

Answer 7

i believe in christianity. therefore i believe that jesus will come back before that happens. if what your saying is true, then i think you are probably right. hell look at todays generation. they barely care about religion

Answer 8

All things are temporary.