A thousand years past, when life was dark, short, and brutal, as we inched kicking and screaming into the first hints of enlightenment, Christianity was hot to trot for slaughter, burning people alive, drowning 'witches,' persecuting and murdering Jews, enslaving, 'lords' and 'kings' and all that BS, and keeping women pregnant, illiterate, and at the hearth. What's ahead as we journey toward the end of the present one thousand? Do you think we puling primates, with a moveable thumb and a brain that is still wanting serious attention, will continue to babble on about the god of a murdering tribe of Bronze Age desert nomads?
2007-06-29 02:07:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a rational person I'd like to think that we will have left all that superstitious nonsense in the past... but human nature being what it is, I'm not at all sure that will be the case.
2007-06-29 02:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Superstitions are really hard to dump, but more and more people are questioning the traditional church teachings.
When the church came up with the idea of three "gods" being one person. Or three people being one "god", nobody understood it, but they were told to believe it blindly without question. They did. Now, all religious beliefs are being questioned. Intelligent people want sensible, understandable explanations . The churches can't come up with them.
Here are some of my thoughts on the future of religion. I believe that Christianity is in the biggest trouble for the reason that they're stuck with that trinity business that can't be intelligently explained or understood.
Judaism is holding its own for the present, but weakening.
Islam has the advantage of being the last of the big three, so it was able to copy the best of the other two, and dump the worst. The big problem with Islam is that it was invented in 632 AD and teaches its people to never change. They're stuck back in the Medieval days in their dress, their beliefs, their behavior, etc. Islam is a very strong religion, but it encourages a weak, backward, primitive civilization.
Hinduism is hardly believable at all to anyone not born into it.
Buddahism is a peaceful belief. It's questionable if Buddahism could be called a religion, at least, orthodox Buddahism as practiced by Gautama. It's more a search for knowledge than a religion.
The other lesser religions are just variations of the above.
The new "religions", Wicca, Goths, and whatever, are grown-ups playing kids games. They "invent" holidays, rituals,dress, and all the other foolishness.
2007-06-29 02:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1990, 8% of the American population did not go to church. In 2000 it was 14%. By 3007 the churches will be museums, if we are still here.
The "Age of Reason" was the beginning of the end for religions. The Internet is just making it happen faster. I'm not an atheist, but I don't think God is a supernatural entity - I define "God" as the natural universe.
2007-06-29 02:13:25 · answer #3 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism will continue, because it has ways of updating itself while continuing to respect and value its history. (Do you really think that the Jewish idea of G-d hasn't changed in over 2000 years? ;-)
Regarding the rest, I'm guessing that there will be some form of Christianity, albeit much changed. How depends on what else happens in the world. Islam is a part of western life. China and India continue to grow and develop. Christianity is badly in need of reform and nearing burn-out. Everyone is talking to each other in ways that weren't possible twenty years ago.
I hope that we'll learn how to get along and live sustainably rather than greedily. But I fear that the religion of that time will be whatever the dominant government finds best suited to keeping itself in power.
2007-06-29 02:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that the future hasn't happened yet, it is impossible to answer your question with any degree of accuracy. To attempt to do so would be an exercise in speculation.
2007-06-29 02:27:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As we improve our intelligence we will thus lose our fear of things that we do not understand. Therefore few of us will support the preachers who make their living fostering hate and discontent. This said, it follows that we will begin to respect our fellow man without regard to minor differences.
2007-06-29 02:25:42 · answer #6 · answered by randy_plrm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Android Empire will be trading us to the Embosonians and Pingans as finger food.
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2007-06-29 02:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't try predicting the future. I leave that to Psychics, Prophets, and other snake oil selling quacks.
2007-06-29 02:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we will be the pets of computers worshipping Bill Gates.
2007-06-29 02:16:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah, it'll be gone by then. Ask again in a thousand years.
2007-06-29 02:12:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋