Does anyone else think all modern religions will eventually die out?

Question

I think in a hundred or so years religion as we know it now will cease to exist. I think it will be taught in school right along side of greek mythology, There will be Christian mythology Buddist mythology etc...I think as we use science to become more aware of our surrounding in this wolrd, we will no longer have any use for gods. I think people will look back and snicker at the fact that so many believed in a higher power for so long. Does anyone else agree?

Answer 1

Deuce –

That is a function of political and cultural history. It is unrelated to the legitimacy or primitive nature of either belief system.

For the first 1500 years, Christianity survived by suppressing (often violently) all non-Biblical knowledge, personal liberty and freedom, and by keeping most Europeans stuck in lives of absolute economic poverty and political powerlessness. It was most successful during the Dark Ages when all knowledge of the Ancients (e.g. Greeks) was completely lost.

The modern scientific and industrial revolutions were less than 200 years ago, and it is only the size and entrenched political and social power of Christianity that has allowed it to survive this long. Its head has been cut off, and only momentum and inertia have kept it from falling over dead – yet.

The Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) were created to serve the emotional and intellectual needs of illiterate tribes of semi-nomadic Semitic goat herders who roamed the desert areas of the Middle East thousands of years ago. The Bible is a collection of their folktales and mythological beliefs. Their mythology is no longer relevant and is as doomed to the dust of history as the mythological beliefs of the ancient Greeks.

Answer 2

Consider the numbers below and the fact that religious people are becoming ever more powerful in politics.

Major religions ranked by number of adherents.

Christianity: 2.1 billion

Islam: 1.5 billion

Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion

Hinduism: 900 million

Chinese traditional religion: 394 million

Buddhism: 376 million

primal-indigenous: 300 million

African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

Sikhism: 23 million

Juche: 19 million

Spiritism: 15 million

Judaism: 14 million

Baha'i: 7 million

Jainism: 4.2 million

Shinto: 4 million

Cao Dai: 4 million

Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million

Tenrikyo: 2 million

Neo-Paganism: 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

Rastafarianism: 600 thousand

Scientology: 500 thousand


And that doesn't even count all the other obscure religious teachings.
Religion will never die out.

Thumbs down? OK, just remember to tighten those blindfolds!

Answer 3

If that were to happen, it would take more than 100 years. I live in the Southern U.S. and religion here is extremely strong. I hear all these reports of religion dying out, but I just don't see any signs of it. New church buildings are going up everywhere. My own church has many converts joining every year. Even many of the people who are leaving Christianity here tend to join other religions, rather than abandon religion altogether. Religion may be weak in some areas, but in the strongholds, like the American South, it would take well over a century for religion to vanish. It is very much a part of the cultural landscape.

Answer 4

It's hard to say. I honestly doubt that the majority of humans will stop believing in some sort of higher power. If anything, I think a link will be found that combines both 'God' and science but don't ask me how that'll happen.

I can see the religions of the world going down in history books as superstition, too. I just don't think the whole world will stop believing in a higher power.

Answer 5

Not entirely - the terms now called 'religious' will continue to become called mythology as religion evolves along with our society - but the basic 'religious experience' will continue as long as we acknowledge that we exist and there is worth in the rest of the universe...

Answer 6

Yes, I do agree. Only the factual truth can be sustained indefinitely. The only alternative I can think of would require Christians accept that their god exists in their subjective experience, but not in objective (physical) reality. This separates science from religion -- leaving objective reality to science and returns religion to purely spiritual matters. If Christianity persists in its ignorant and futile attempts to undermine science, it will only destroy itself. Even today, Creationism is destroying religion's creditability. In a few hundred years only fools and phonies will be Christians, unless Christianity eventually changes its dogma to be consistent with how nature actually operates.

Those who comfort themselves by recalling how long religion has already lasted have forgotten that the scientific revolution didn't even begin until 1590, at the earliest, and that science has been a social force for only about one-hundred years. We are at the beginning of the end of religion, unless faith is reformed to be consistent with reality.

Answer 7

Sooner, I hope! Science is advancing quite rapidly, and everyone benefits from it - even those who reject its basic precepts. I have confidence that medical science will produce a definitive answer to all our questions about death and possble afterlife in the realtively near future - and most religions will be proven wrong. Even the approach of that day has people excited - look at how many of the answers agree with you, or at least wish you were correct - compare that to what the response would have been fifty years ago.

Answer 8

In historic previous, in many circumstances you have been absolute to a faith counting on the place you have been born. nevertheless right this moment that's like that for some human beings, yet over all maximum folk can choose what faith they choose to be and in the event that they choose to be aside of any faith. while you're aside of religion then confident it does limit unfastened will. a appropriate occasion is "suitable to choose" contained in the USA of united states of america and in some Muslim religions they nevertheless marry their daughters off. suitable to choose is basically what it says. maximum religious communities don't have self assurance a girl ought to have a decision what to do together with her physique. they have truly planted bombs and shot medical doctors. The undesirable Muslim woman could be killed by using her father is she does not hear to her father whilst it includes marriage. the two limit unfastened will in todays society.

Answer 9

No, as they said in V for Vendetta, "You can't kill an idea." People will still believe, no matter what. Even if those religions do die out, they will probably come back again, just like the reconstruction of Greek, Norse and Egyptian religions.

Answer 10

No ! I don't think they will?if you have a look on TV of a Sunday night,all over the USA people are flocking to see what other Lie's the Xians can unleash on the unsuspecting humans.
Talking in tongue's and placing their hands on others ?
What does that symbolise ? Pushing them over and saying
that God did it,what a lot of hogwash. If one was to believe all this crap he /she would be burned at the stake as a witch.
The Christian population has completely lost the plot?
And all need to see their local shrink !