Is today's religion tomorrow's mythology?

Question

I mean, today's mythology is invariably yesteryear's religion. Is that what happens to belief systems?

Answer 1

Absolutely!!
Look at history!
Religion is basically the interpretation by one or many people of historical events.
That's really it.
It's a story told by one or more people based on their perception of what happened.
And you know what happens to a story when it's told to another person and so on and so on. The story changes to suit that person's perceptions of it.
At one time there is always some truth to a story, but, it gets distorted as it's retold.
The truth is that all religions, since the beginning of recorded time are all created out of this process.
It's not even factual in most cases.
And based on people's perceptions.
I think that as the world evolves, we will move more to some type of spiritualizm rather than traditional religion.
Once we move past the fantasies of how we think the world should be. We hopefully will move towards an awareness of how it is and our place in it. And therein effect positive change in the world.
Until then, traditional religion will have a huge influence. Unfortunately, not for the best.
Just look at the way we treat each other, the wars, our governments etc.
All of these things are effected by our perceptions of our traditional religion and the fear and guilt that we live by, based on it's teachings.
When we are released of those fears and guilts, and start dealing with life on a mass scale, realizing we are all "in it" together, the world will see a more positive state.
Sorry to be so long on this. It's a subject I find fascinating and I agree with.
We need to see change if we want to progress.
Not only on a physical level, but, a spiritual level as well.

Answer 2

Yes. Also today's mythology will be tomorrow's religion.

Answer 3

It's absolutely possible. Religion has given way to the point that we BELIEVE myths - stories passed down for ages that may have lost their original intention or meaning. After multiple translations and alterations in personal beliefs, no one can be sure any religious literature is certain.

I'm sure at one point that someone will consider our religious beliefs laughable, or at least interesting without being considerable.

One must wonder, though, if our religion will still be in the future and change as much as it has over the past few millenia. Perhaps religion will evolve, and leave us without a mythology - it'll be another ripple in the waves of time.

Answer 4

i don't agree with you, even with the Greek mythology this was not the religion, these were ancestors who's lives had crossed the Gods but different to the religion.

I believe that the main religions are too well established to turn to mythology - however some of the miricles could be seen as mythological, but not the religion in whole.

Answer 5

what is religion? the way i see it (personal opinion ) religion is a farce.

I've read the bible and it is the same as any other fictional novel, a load of crap!

it's down to evolution which is not just a club it's what happens (scientifically proven ),to all the species on this rotating rock somwhere in this so called galaxy.

you are brought into this existance a result of the mating process of the male and female of the species, you live out your miserable existance for on average 75 years listening to variouse other co inhabitants shoving their beliefs down your throats then you die.

if there is an after life don't you think it's a little full by now ??

Answer 6

It depends on which religion! Look at some of the religions that have lasted WAY longer than when the statistics said they should have! In fact, just look at Jews, every type of people in the world hated us at one point, and still, we managed to pull through alright. Then look at Hindu or Buddhism, they've both been around for a while! But there really is no sure answer....... I can't tell the future any better than you!

Answer 7

No. Yesterday's horror films are tomorrow's mythology.

Answer 8

As a leading theologist I can categorically state that fairies do live at the end of my garden and I'll take issue with anyone who dares deny this simple truth.

By the way mythology and religion is all about humans playing the politics of control over others at the end of the day. Nothing more nothing less.

Answer 9

Today's religion IS today's mythology. There's no difference. Gods, angels, messiahs, holy virgins... they are all mythological inventions whose existence no-one can prove, just like no-one can prove the existence of the tooth fairy or santa claus because the rational sane conclusion is that none of them exist in the real world.

Answer 10

The mythology of socialism is that it will always become true.

The myth that mankind has the intellectual and moral equipment to manufacture heaven on Earth is still believed by some even today. When people pursue a dream about the future it nearly always entails some kind of material accumulation of wealth and this accumulation involves competing with other people, groups, cultures who don't always co-operate with the other's selfish agenda. The areas of confilct throughout history have nearly always been about economic expansion and both religion and myth have been used as a spiritual justification for using the machinery of war as a divinely inspired necessity.

The place of religion and myth, whether they swop meanings or hybridise over time, has always occupied a central place in the ethics committee of State barbarism. The Persians had their gods, the Greeks theirs, the Romans also. In the modern world we don't call socialism a religion or a mythology but its basic tenets are as old as religion that proposes a way of life in a mandate full of obscure and abstract words for which there are no universal definitions.

When people attempt to define 'love' for example, which is a word for something that doesn't exist in reality as a three dimensional object nor as something that can be proved to be true by observation and by repeated scientific experiments, they invariably drift in their dialogue toward a spiritualisation of the word which always calls upon symbolism, icons, ideology or mythology, legends and religion to give it meaning or definition.
It is the social practice of articulating the unknowable since the birth of language that has necessitated the construction of ideas and the building of temples and tomb stones in which the ideas can be reified that brings into existence the idiom of icons, symbols and legends. 'Our legendary heroes of the 2nd World War who defended democracy' is a typical pagan phrase that articulates the myth of democracy, the political system that guarantees an ever so fair and equitable social system for distribution according to need.

Is today's utopia tomorrow's dystopia? Is not today's brutal attack on our neighbours in Iraq and Afghanistan tomorrow's retribution by the Arab world all based on the myth that we get rid of evil by committing our nation to be linked with acts of greater evil?

The divine injunction justifying war is the pagan's religion of destruction based on words that Jesus Himself will chuck into the pit when He returns to judge all nations.