When will religion enter the realm of Mythology?

Answer 1

mythology is the intellectual study of the stories of humanity addressing their origins, histories, deities, and heros. religion is a part of this from an intellectual perspective. certain stories and myths have become accepted by groups of people or cultures as being integral to their understanding, and these have been elevated to a higher importance based on widespread acceptance. while themes in mythology occur throughout all religions, people who agree on things being correct or incorrect are basing their beliefs on common prejudice. basically religion is when two or more people agree on and choose one mythology to represent their origins, history, deity, etc...instead of recognizing that all of the various stories are integral to true understanding.

religion is based on separation. mythology is more of a unified concept.

so an answer to your question might be in omnitheism, or the acceptance of all religious ideas as valid. the more people realize that separation leads to a schizoid world view and become aware of the unifying concepts that we all share, then your answer might be achieved.

Answer 2

I've gotta say, I'm surprised at the number of posts saying that religion and mythology are one and the same. It reinforces my hope that humanity (or some part of it) is indeed evolving into a more mature, less superstitious species.

If I had to answer the question of when the world's _current_ religions will be regarded in the same manner as we today regard the ancient Greek and Egyptian religions, I would say maybe a few centuries to a couple millenia. Religions do have self-preservation techniques, so they won't go easily. They also fulfill certain psychological niches in people--for instance, churches provide a strong social networking and communal bonding mechanism, holy books one means of passing down morality (even if it's outdated morality), and then there's just a big need some people have to believe in a higher authority. Actually, the psychological underpinnings of religion can be pretty interesting, and may give clues as to how religion may one day be replaced....

Answer 3

What? You don't think Christianity has Mythology...
Anything that has large proportions and cannot be verified is Mythology. Mythology tend to fill the gap of what makes sense and what we totally don't know. Some early religious authority had no clue and invented a little story to explain origins or any other unexplained event.
God creating the world in 7 days is pure Mythology...! Christians just don't like to hear it! If you told some early ancient Greek peasants that Zeus was Mythology they would kill you for insult to the Gods!
Most Creation stories are Mythological accounts!!! Most if not all religions are based in some form of Mythology. That is why it is religion not science!!!

Answer 4

When all the followers of a particular religion die off, or stop believing. That is not to say though that what religion's practice cannot be considered mythology until it's followers stop.

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Answer 5

Not any time soon. Obsolete genes do not die overnight. The development of our cerebral cortex (the logical and rational thinking part of our brains) is only a recent development, say with the last 100,000 years.

The primitive limbic system, that last remnant of our reptillian past, is where our irrational belief systems reside. Atheists have used their rational portions of their brains to view the universe. Theists still rely on that primitive part and they're the majority of this earth....the majority with a distorted world view...

Answer 6

Mythology is religion.

Answer 7

Traditions die hard. No one wants to believe when you die that is it. So people will use the bulk of their energy to convince themselves and others that this is not the case. The result is a more productive and better behaved society. Plus religious organizations get paid and can manipulate media and elections.

The answer is man will destroy itself before that happens.

Answer 8

By definition, they are in the same realm and have always been.

Answer 9

greek mythology was once a major relgion it s the same

Answer 10

I'm surprised it has lasted this long. It was our earliest form of philosophy, before we had any science to explain things. It should be long gone.

Every baby is born an atheist.