Do you think the decline in religion is due to man becoming more powerful?

Question

with technological advances, medical and comunication, space travel and discovery, we can pretty much do anything now we set our minds to.
we cured lepracy, we can part seas, even make it rain. Even global warming, if it is man created, we can destroy a whole planet!

Answer 1

I think a bigger factor in the decline of Christianity (I'm using this because it's the religion I'm most familiar with) was the abandonment of intellectualism when challenged by higher criticism and the fairy tale of evolution. Rather than questioning the philosophical assumptions (such as methodological naturalism) by which atheists and humanists interpreted the evidence, Christians simply let them control the rules of the debate and went on the defensive.

Answer 2

First I don't agree there is decline in religion. If anything the number who flock to pilgrimage centers has only gone up manifold. The large number of self proclaimed atheists you come across here in YA do not count to even a minute fraction of all those who marry in church, remember God before eating, contribute to the temples and religious functions, discuss mythology, spend hard earned resources on religious rites and pilgrimage and buy religious literature..
I don't question your point that man has become aware of many things of late but that has not dented the religious belief of the common person.
If you mean the decline in moral values, it is possible we are now more aware of the immoral happenings around us because of the scientific advances.

Answer 3

How will false religion end?
Picture the scene. A harlot is sitting on the back of a fearsome beast. The beast has seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:1-4) Whom does the harlot represent? She exerts influence “over the kings of the earth.” She dresses in purple, uses incense, and is exceedingly wealthy. In addition, by means of her spiritistic practice, ‘all the nations are misled.’ (Revelation 17:18; 18:12, 13, 23) The Bible helps us to see that this harlot is a worldwide religious entity. She depicts, not any one religion, but all religions that produce rotten fruit.

The beast that the harlot rides pictures the world’s political powers.* (Revelation 17:10-13) False religion straddles the back of this political beast, attempting to influence its decisions and to control its direction.

Soon, though, an amazing event will take place. “The ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire.” (Revelation 17:16) In a sudden, shocking move, the world’s political powers will turn on false religion and completely destroy her! What will prompt this action? The Bible book of Revelation answers: “God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought.” (Revelation 17:17) Yes, God will call false religion to account for all the despicable acts she has committed in his name. In a stroke of perfect justice, he will use her political paramours as his instrument of execution.

What must you do if you do not want to share the fate of false religion? “Get out of her, my people,” urges God’s messenger. (Revelation 18:4) Indeed, now is the time to flee from false religion! But to where can you flee? Not into atheism, since its future is also bleak. (2 Thessalonians 1:6-9) The only haven is within true religion. How can you identify true religion?

Answer 4

I think that no one wants to return to old days when everything of society was just decided by the church or religion leaders in their bias to most human population.

Now, human still need to evolve more with education, humanity, democracy, forgiveness to live in peace and expand search of new planet to live, to book space traveling.

Answer 5

Where are your statistics or are you just quoting from what you have heard? Man thinks he is powerful. He has replaced himself with God and forgotten that all he is is due to the grace of God. God created smart people to develop technology and medicine. Man has forgotten to let God in on the praise and glory of that gift.

Answer 6

the decline in religion is due to man thinking that they have it all figured out. Once you think you know everything, there is no room for God.

Answer 7

I think that the decline in spirituality in the West in general is due to the rise of materialism. It is so easy for us to get our physical needs met, and we have so many physical distractions (TV, computer, etc.), that we see no real need to attend to our spiritual needs anymore.

Answer 8

Who says there is a decline in religion? We're still fighting wars over it.

Answer 9

Hate to burst your bubble but religion grows right along with the population. There are more religious people now than ever before. Dont get excited, we're not going anywhere ;)

Answer 10

I think it may be due to people thinking they know it all in fact they know nothing but need God more, thinking we are more powerful than God is very sad and comes from satan.