How do you think religion will change in the next 100 years?

Answer 1

Heck - I think it'll change in the next 100 DAYS. Religions are like anything else - they either change, or they die. Religions that are on the periphery of mainstream belief systems always have fewer members than their more moderate counterparts. Mankind and nature always tend toward the norm.

People who say that religion hasn't changed in 2000 years (or whatever length of time) aren't thinking it through. Religions have all changed in that period of time. Certainly the Catholic church no longer rules the world; nor does Islam, much as they'd like to argue otherwise. Judaism (my own belief) is far more moderate than it once was; most Jews in the U.S. and Israel would not consider being Orthodox.

Meanwhile, more and more people in the west are adopting points of view that their parents and grandparents would have considered unthinkable, such as the eastern religions. Wicca is tolerated, if not encouraged, and I would imagine earth-based religions will only become more acceptable with time.

It's always been about change, and it always will be. Truly, the only constant IS change :-)

Answer 2

In a hundred years, not much change will come about. The brutal combat between Islam and the world will, if anything, grow greater and more brutal and fatal to our puling species. But by five hundred years, all religion will have been put on the shelf where it belongs. It will wear out like corporate greed in the USA and its love of war and slaughter of the innocent. Time, space-travel, technologies, DNA, stem cell research and its progress, and this, that, and the other will, as the clock ticks, make primitive beliefs obsolete for the mass of humankind. There shall be uproars and moanings and groanings, but after a dozen decades or so, religion will not be missed any more than we today miss the horse and buggy or public hangings in the courthouse square. Along the same span of time the United States will fade to a large but globally unimportant nation with fascist undertones--we are seeing evidence of the downfall now. Thanks, I am quick to add, to George Bush and the GOP's obscene manipulation of the wacko religious right-wing. Such political dancing is contrary to the shaping and reshaping of our major allies in Europe, which, like it or not, is vital...more-so to the USA than to the new Europe. In 1000 years gods and all that will be seen as what they are in fact, an absurdity and altogether pathetic, the doctrine of the ignorant, the frightened, the old and alone, the bottom-rungs of society, and really rather freaky.

Answer 3

Well if Christianity is still going, it seems likely the Pope will admit that not only does limbo not exist anymore, but neither does Hell and they're not so sure about Heaven. The Bible will be considered merely "guidelines" and Gandhi will be canonized. The divinity of Jesus will be revoked but not the Trinity idea creating much confusion. Christians will STILL be shouting "Oh no! It's the end times because the prophecy says so" and they will still be wrong.

The Dali Lama will amazingly still be touring around in an effort to save up some money to buy Tibet back off of China. A controversial theory will be published stating that King Henry VII was actually Muhammad and that Jacques Chirac was his direct descendant.

Something like that anyway...

Answer 4

I would hope that religions will become more tolerant of each other and learn to focus on the common values that are present in the majority of them.

We are rapidly approaching a time when significant events will impact our whole world, rather than just isolated portions of it. In fact, that process is happening now and continues to gain momentum.

If we cannot learn to live as a global community, we will not survive. I hope that our humanity can keep pace with our technology.

Answer 5

Dude, religion - For instance, Christianity hasn't changed in the last 2000 years. What makes you think that in the next 100 years religion will change?

Answer 6

The more respected adherents of each religion will tend to be more and more outside the established and organized "church" groups, as the churches have fallen into decay and no longer faithfully represent the values of those who would follow the spirit and not the letter of the religious writings. In short, more individuation, less organization.

Answer 7

It won't. It has and always will be that people use their religion to judge those who don't follow the same practices, or justify thier own actions and subsequently alleviate their guilty consiouses in the name of religion, thereby declaring wars among nations... But maybe in the next 1000 years, just maybe... people may finally wake up and realize that we're all in this word together and it all ties in together somehow! There is no right or wrong faith, it's the ones that have no faith at all that are truly wrong!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Technically, i do no longer evaluate something after Beethoven and Schubert to be classical. Beethoven became the final classical musician. From Schubert onwards it grew to become Romantic, Nationalist, etc. yet brushing aside that for the sake of your question, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Copeland, etc. are labeled as "classical" in checklist shops via fact the contraptions used are the comparable. it fairly is in easy terms till 40's and 50's that individuals began moving faraway from orchestra and extra in direction of the guitar and drums that are function of Rock 'n' Roll. via nature of the contraptions used, i do no longer think of the Beatles or Led Zeppelin will ever be referred to as "classical" music.

Answer 10

i think it has already being phased out. as more people get educations they will turn from religion and think for themselves...i think that in 100 years religion will be thought of as a tradition. and people will no longer take it literally. i hope this does happen, one less thing to wage wars over.