Estimated date for the abolishment of modern Religion?

Question

I am just curious. It seems to me that religion and theism and the (ir)rationality behind is kind of all coming to a head in these last few years. Dawkins and Sagan have lots to do with this. I am just curious will we get to a point where believers are few and Yaweh is chalked up there with Zeus? I am guessing about 2075 but i have no real reason for that guess

Answer 1

we have awhile to go only 1.3 million people are becoming athiests per year but it is picking up speed

Answer 2

Over 100 years ago Voltaire said that the Bible would be a forgotten book in 100 years. The French Bible society uses his house to sell Bibles out of. He also thought that Africans were a seperate species and inferior to Europeans.... irrational belief that God and the Bible will go away will not make truth disappear anymore than a man calling himself a chicken can grow feathers or fly. Sagan and Dawkins are just more modern versions of Voltaire and their arguements hold no water.

Regarding Richard Dawkins Alister McGrath (writer of the Dawkins Delusion) states:
“Such is Dawkins’s unruffled scientific impartiality that in a book of almost four hundred pages, he can scarcely bring himself to concede that a single human benefit has flowed from religious faith, a view which is as a priori improbable as it is empirically false.”
"Atheism must indeed be in a sorry state if its leading contemporary defender has to depend so heavily – and so obviously – on the improbable and the false to bolster his case."


You can listen to McGrath and Dawkins debate here.
http://www.rzim.org/resources/

"Truth is absolute and knowable and must be searched for diligently, but many will try to hide it, deny it or muddy it." - Bia Leung.

Answer 3

Modern religion? What the heck is that? Estimated date for the abolishment of the world should be on your mind. We Christians, refer to it as the Midnight Cry......but of course we know, only God knows the hour.

Religion will always be with us...people make religion out of the craziest things...I hear there is a group that to reach another level,,,it cost a lot more money....each level you climb.....you pay money.....and these people know about psychology,,they have studied it,,,,we haven't....I think it has the perfect name...now that religion is a contradiction in terms....the Scientology Religion.....how quaint...

Answer 4

The sooner the better. When we stop the faithfulness and open our eyes maybe we can finally be at peace with each other. Well Isaac Newton says the world is going to end in 2060, so maybe then religion will end and they will all see what their faith has gotten them. two hours every Sunday (at least) wasted. You could have been doing something worthwhile during all that time in church, like trying to stop the world from ending.

Answer 5

You think Dawkins and Sagan are effective? Hahaha. Look, read Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason". If Christianity can withstand such a great attack as that book, then Christianity can withstand Dawkins and Sagan without a problem.

Answer 6

As long as there are people still reproducing in the deep south with no access to books or correct grammar, you will never see the end of Christianity my friend.

Answer 7

Never, mankind is programed with some kind of Dostoyevskian spite which will ensure that there will always be a group of irrational fools to screw everything up, even in the face of overwhelming facts

Answer 8

Yaweh is not modern Religion, Christian Science and Mormonism are sort of modern. Bad vibes on your part.

Answer 9

The 12th of Never

Answer 10

When this world is wiped away, there will still be people worshipping Christ. That will go on for eternity.