Let's just say, your religion was proven false?

Question

Proven false, theoretically, just absolutely no doubt that the religion you led your life by was for whatever reason, completely untrue.
What would you do? How would you feel?
Would your life change?

Answer 1

If that did happen, I'd seek the right religion. I don't have a super attachment to my identification as a believer in X religion, at least not anymore. I was Catholic and staunchily so, very active in the church, bla bla bla. I swore that I was going to die as a Catholic. Ah, but then the Bahá'í Faith was PROVEN to me. Yes, PROVEN. It was hard, but I had to face the truth and leave Christianity altogether and embrace the Bahá'í Faith.

NEVER SAY NEVER.

Answer 2

Various elements of religions are disproven all the time. The bible is full of little things that are scientifically non-viable - Christians have gotten around this by redefining their interpretation every time this happens and pretending it was like that all along.

Take for example, the creation story. When it was calculated by numerous sources that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, Christians responded that:

A) It was what they meant all along.
B) The entire Genesis is metaphorical.
C) That particular part of genesis is metaphorical.
D) God made the earth to look like it was 4.5 billion years old. What a trickster he is!
E) Science is stupid anyway.

I am an agnostic atheist - based on the definition of the Christian god, logically to me he could not possibly exist. There are elements that cancel out each other. If it turned out that there is some kind of god that is limited in knowledge, ability and presence (none of the omnis really work well together, and some of them don't work with themselves) then I would probably just accept it and keep going with my life. It's not like anything will change down here because of it.

Answer 3

My religion is based entirely on Faith. It would be difficult to disprove it, as it has been around for thousands of years already and has yet to be disproved in any way. However, if it were to be found false beyond a shadow of a doubt, I guess I would just have to suck it up and move on. I'm not so stubborn that I would just take something completely and obviously true and stick my hand in the sand, ignoring it. Truth is truth. My theory has always been "when I'm supposed to know, I'll know."

Answer 4

The first thing I would probably do is laugh real hard. Then I would thank the person for educating me.

Naturally some of my day to day tasks and actions might change.

It also might shift some of my priorities and goals in a different direction.

Though I doubt anyone that did not know me really well would see a significant difference.

Answer 5

What makes you think of that guy is able to proving a faith is incorrect whilst he won't be able to even get the climate suitable ? i think of it fairly is a query that takes some faith in. And in having faith in proving that something dose no longer exist is after all a faith onto itself. Don’t you think of ? i'm at risk of think of that there must be some bigger power, merely simply by complexity of the Universe is recommendations boggling. Its humorous which you would be able to decide all those human beings via making some undemanding statements that ought to surely be made approximately you considering which you haven't any longer have been given any ideals or faith in something, yet your self.

Answer 6

I don't really see the path I walk as religion and the proof of a Creator is in front of my eyes every day. If I am walking my way to hell ( as some say that I am) well at least I will have appreciated the journey. I could never stop seeing God this way and so I could never change what I do, how I feel or who I am.

Answer 7

Since a principle teaching my religion, the Baha'i Faith, says that knowledge is one and that science and religion must agree as they are two ways of looking at reality, I don't think that is likely to happen. How?

Answer 8

How can you disprove a religion, exactly? Religion is, by definition, subjective - it is opinion. You might as well ask if people would still like Da Vinci's Mona Lisa if it were proven false.

Answer 9

y life would not change because I have full confidence in my religion and the other two that are great in the USA. FYI I am Jewish and the other 2 I refer to are Protestants and Catholics

Answer 10

nothing. just think that I've been had and shrug it off, and eventually try to forget that my religion made a fool out of me.

addition: after all, if it's false anyway, I can't make it true by being angry. I'm kind to myself.