The information revolution is just starting to change the world.
But the pace of change is about to pick up far more.
Advances in medicine and telecommunications are already increasing not just lifespans, but the quality of life in old age, as well as helping to bring the global community even closer together.
This very site is a great example of how we're moving toward being a global community.
Our observation of the stars are just beginning to reveal other planets capable of supporting life.
Religious dogmas will become far harder to sustain.
Ideas are being exchanged more than ever before.
New discoveries are common knowledge globally upon release to the public.
While there are many wars and conflicts, never before have people been so aware of others from different parts of the planet.
Can religions keep up with the pace of change and remain relavent to the faithful?
Can religious dogma survive this surge in human advancement?
2007-05-29 03:43:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only in your dreams, Almost every religion on the planet is growing at a phenomenal rate
2007-05-29 03:47:05 · answer #1 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion will always survive because it serves humans in a way that scientific advancements cannot. It was thought that the first Renaissance would eradicate religion - it did not, though it did lead to new religious ideas. Also, the scientific revolution was rumored to do the same and though it brought with it the paradigm of modernism, the pendulum swung back to our current post-modern way of thinking (ie, no religion is better than any other and very open to spirituality as a whole.)
As for me, science could never answer the greatest needs of my existence, which is to mean something - to matter. We all yearn for this and in such, often we find ourselves looking to religion to give us those answers.
2007-05-29 04:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's sad to see that you are as arrogant as you are ignorant. All the advancements that you're claiming had all been predicted in the Bible three thousand years ago in the book of Revelation. You'd sure know that if you were doing more reading and less ignorant-hate-spreading. The other funny thing is that people like you are also described in it. Keep hardening you heart to the truth and you'll go completely blind. You'll see things physically and won't be able to differentiate the truth from the delusions that you're making yourself believe and spreading to others. Good luck and God help you see, you need it.
God bless you and keep you searching for the truth that your heart desires!
2007-06-01 13:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by bEiNg DiScIpLiNeD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beautifully laid out.
The internet = the single greatest invention since phone or television. I am well satisfied with where we are headed because it it where we should be headed. It is a far greater place, a place where intelligence, not force and brain-washed conformists, rule. We are capable of so much more, but we have been held back far too long. The religions will survive, but only the open-minded ones that can flex and change and grow with us. Only the ones who use their minds and admit theirs is a faith, not the WAY, because humanity is already refusing to be held back any longer, hence the reason for so many heated debates on this wonderful site.
Liberty.
2007-05-29 03:53:49 · answer #4 · answered by Edhelosa 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that religion will ever go away. When people give answers to the effect of" If this is all there is,what is the point?"tells me that some people really don't care how it is,and can somehow make their mind up that it's how they wish it was,despite any amount of evidence to the contrary. Personally,I would REALLY like elves and wizards to exist. That would be cool. However,I accept that Truth doesn't seem to care what I want. Many people are unable to make the distinction
2007-05-29 03:50:08 · answer #5 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has been an ongoing proces in western Europe for over a decade. Religion is struggling and even Christians here accept that fact. Only in the US do the little canutes vainly try and hold back the tide of change.
2007-05-29 03:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
And I just have to bring this out, if we have found planets that can sustain other life, why haven't we sent anyone up there without any gear and let them live? Because they haven't found that. Which shows that ignorance of true facts is going to kill off the world before anything else does.
2007-05-29 03:50:01 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. A 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
With each Renaissance you will more thank likely see another Great Awakening to meet it at some point in the future
2007-05-29 03:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by John C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only the Western world that is advancing in these ways. The Middle East and Africa are as knee deep in religion/superstition as they ever were, probably more so.
Even in America religion/superstition is on the increase, unfortunately.
Thankfully Western Europe continues to fly the banner of secularism and reason for the world.
2007-05-29 03:48:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Knowledge will increase, and with it, sorrows.
What I see is that in spite of all the boom in information, people are sliding back into what could be best termed a new dark age.
It's more than invention and knowledge.
2007-05-29 03:49:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋