I'm in a heck of a good mood this warm morning, with a nice, heavy shower predicted and a quick jaunt to my doctor's office where I was told all was well. Hey, I'm 71 but I ain't dead yet, I'm still a working professional Shakespearean actor--by 'professional,' dear hearts, I mean I get paid big bucks, which I'll be needing big-time as my youngest of five grandchildren speeds toward college age: it's Yale for him. Well, that's babble. What I want to ask my fellow unbelievers is this: are you feeling, as I am, that the fundies and other fearful, sad religious folk are nearing their last hurrah, their last shouts and stomps? I do. There's something in the "air," if you will, which is telling me that, though Christianity has a couple hundred years left, the rawbone fundamentalists and their cherrypicking of the Bible will be finding the church door padlocked pretty darn soon--in maybe no more than a generation. There's no reason at all for us to feel sorry for them.
2007-06-13 01:23:12 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I couldn't agree more I think the major religions will soon die out within a few centuries. However I am sure some level of spirituality will remain with people it will not be as a result of mass blind ignorance like it currently is!
2007-06-13 01:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by John C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh this is rich. Delicious fodder for the atheists, indeed.
Oh sage one, do you not yet understand, after all this time, that the church is not the building, but the people inside? You can lock the doors of the building, but you cannot quash the Spirit that lives within.
Do you not see that the same "something in the air" is revealed to believers, as well? There is change encroaching; it's been rapid as of late, yes. However, it's rather presumptive of you to assume that the aforementioned perceiving of change is exclusive to your point of view or solely for your benefit.
If your line of thinking was successful at running every believer underground, do you not think that human nature would supply another "breed of scapegoat"?
You are correct. There is no reason to feel sorry for the believer - our strength lies not in what is readily seen, but what lies inside the shell called human form.
Do I anticipate/accept the change? I say yes - soon - or in languange more fitting:
"Anon, anon, sir". (Francis -King Henry the IV, Part I)
2007-06-13 01:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs.M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. In general they are, which is why you see them pulling into groups like they are. It is a defensive position.
I also see atheists starting to come out because they are less threatened by what society thinks.
I am only 41, but I have seen a shift in the last 20 years. 20 years ago everyone would have ignored Dawkins, but he managed to get famous now. It is good to know that you see it too. You have an extra 30 years to compare.
And Yale is expensive, good luck.
2007-06-13 01:31:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A few centuries of religion left, probably. Depends how the upcoming Christian vs. Islam war plays out (in one way or another, that's a power struggle that will dominate this century just as capitalism vs. communism did last century).
2007-06-13 01:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by freebooter16 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you ARE Ian McKellen, I just adore you!
And, although I'm not an atheist.. I'm a pantheist pagan type who agrees that these fundamentalist religions are on their way out the door.
2007-06-13 01:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're unburdened by capacity of the slaughter of harmless lives and human sacrifice? do you already know what abortion is? have you ever examine the information popping out of Iraq? Do you particularly have faith that George Bush is a Christian? do you already know that interior the eyes of the psychological antichrist elite who plan to create a worldwide dictatorship presently that your "thoughts" are considered "the quiet understanding of the livestock?"
2016-10-07 10:20:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friend, I am a Believer & a Christian, I am 57 yrs. old, It is a shame that in your 71 years, you did not have enough sense to see that there is a God. Hey, I was 20 when I gave my life over to God, does that show a 20 yr old has more sense than a 71 yrs. old.
2007-06-13 01:32:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are dead, you know!
2007-06-13 02:16:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you Ian McKellen?
2007-06-13 01:26:48 · answer #9 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh goody, I get to use an Atheistic answer!
Prove it.
2007-06-13 01:32:08 · answer #10 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋