today's religion, tormorro's mythology?

Question

the romans probably never believed their gods will turn into myths, nor did others.
can this happen with modern day religions and can some myths revive and become religions again?

you say the romans invented their gods, how do we know that we didnt? their gods were also based on certain historical events.

Answer 1

All religion is made up. Just like mythology. Then, just as now, there are some that know it for what it is and others that truly believe in it. The mythology that we have today became myth because of Christianity. All of the pagan gods either became myth or devils. Which ever suited them best. The same with holidays.

Take a look at any holiday and you can find its pagan origins which have conviently been covered up with Christian ones. See when paganism was on the down slide Christians found that it was easier to incorporate the holidays and the stories to coincide with what was already being practiced. Makind the desirable of God and the undesirable of the devil.

The problem is now that Christianity and other religions are so solid that we will never go back completely to the myths of old. That time of innocence is gone. It is possible that the religions of today could be replaced with a different religion and the ones now become mythology. See with the old myths, there was a purpose. Lessons were incorporated into the stories. Cronus ate his children for a reason. Not because they actually believed thats how it happened but rather to get the lesson from the story.

Answer 2

Just because the majority think of religion as mythology does not make it so. You can't really prove that it is. If Jesus really did rise from the dead on His own, that's pretty good evidence that He is God. And people have been predicting the end of Christianity a long time. It still hasn't happened yet. That's remarkable, seeing as how it began with only 120 followers in an upper room. I don't think God will ever allow it to be completely wiped off the face of the Earth. Many have tried over the centuries to wipe out all Christians. Libya, in Africa, decreed that all Christians there should be killed, just recently, within the past decade. At least I think it was Libya. Countries in the present day have said such things. Stalin tried to wipe out the Russian Jews and Christians. It didn't happen. Hitler tried to wipe out the Jews and those Christians that opposed him. He also made a religion called Nazism (he wasn't a Christian, no matter what anyone tells you and if you research, you'll discover that; I don't think a mass murderer fits the biblical definition of a Christian) and really promoted the idea of evolution in order to persuade everyone that Christianity was "the most fatal and seductive lie that ever existed." It didn't work. There are still Christians in Germany today.

People in the late 1800's and around the turn of the century thought that evolution would be widely regarded as mythology by their children as well. If a woman kisses a frog and he turns into a prince, that's a fairy tale. However, if the frog turns into a prince slowly, over millions of years, that's science. Go figure. It didn't become regarded as mythology. Probably because it's been imprinted on the minds of kids to believe in it since they were very young. And in public schools, they don't teach you to question whether or not evolution is true. They just teach you to question whether Darwin's brand of evolution is true, or whether Stephen J. Gould's brand is true, or whoever else. They assume that people did evolve. Some include a God and some don't. It's hard to say whether evolution will ever be regarded as myth or not, especially by those hailed as safeguarding "Science" against "Mythology" (which would include any religion that doubts evolution). I believe it is mythology and many other people in this country regard it as mythology as well, but I don't think it'll ever be regarded by mainstream America as mythology. Whether they fully agree or have their doubts, I think most people will always regard evolution as part of science and anything dealing with a god of any kind as part of mythology. It's not because of the evidence, but rather it's because of the culture. Our culture today largely regards Christians as fools who don't know science or don't think for themselves; particularly by the mainstream media.

Oh well. The world has always thought Christians were crazy. What's scary is that even many Bible-believing Christians think the Bible is mythology, at least concerning Genesis. Those people at the very least, should go to creationist's websites. They would learn that there are different ways to interpret the data that scientists collect. I don't know if atheists will ever consider that possibility, but a Christian shouldn't just toss his or her faith because someone disagrees and seems intelligent. Even intelligent people make mistakes sometimes. Would you like to join them in hell? That's where they'll go if they're wrong.

Answer 3

Some religions are very symbolic with the polytheism and such and are already becoming myth as people see more and more into the simplistic structure of it.
Religions based on belief and punishment will stick around for 10 to 100 thousand years or more before the crap bits are turned into folklore and myth.
I.e. the adam and eve bit in the bible. People are starting to allow themselves to understand that it was symbolic parable to understand sin rather than humans coming from just 2 people and only in a relaively short time.

Answer 4

Joseph Campbell said on Bill Moyers' "The Power of Myth" and wrote in his book of the same name that mythology is religion that's no longer in practice.

Answer 5

The problem is that the Romans made up their gods. It was more superstition than anything. Christianity, for example, is rooted in historical fact in that the events in the Bible have been found in more than a few manuscripts.

Answer 6

1. the Romans copied the Greek gods and goddesses
2. some people still honor them.

Answer 7

this is such an insightful question!!
thanks for making me think
i agree.. eventually ppl are going to think this is all a hoax and say it's a myth. but that's probably going to be in a few centuries.

Answer 8

Im sorry to say but because of early scientist most things about anything are beginning to be proven. Eventually we may perhaps know so much that we wont need a religous explanation for the universe

Answer 9

Well my religion has been in existence for over 2000 years so I'm betting it's not going to fall into mythology any time soon.

Answer 10

gosh will you children never learn...

as you stated the Romans were full of their own self worth, it is not that they didn't see there future collapsing its just they were to busy drinking away their guilt and enjoying the last of the mortal sins to realise it was happening.

Think people...