Do you think there will be religion in the next 1000 years, or will it go the way of the dodo?

Question

Christianity is on its last legs and it seems even Muslims are beginning to use their brains, some times. Will man be finally free of religious voodoo ?

Answer 1

You are so wrong. But the good news is that all religions will end when Christ comes again.

Answer 2

Science is religious voodoo too. The assumption that your mind, which is firmly planted in the third dimension will ever be able to understand the complexity of the universe will go on and on forever. It's human nature.

Also Christianity accounts for nearly half of the worlds population and is still growing. Islam is on an even steeper incline than Christianity. Evangelicals are forming bonds with Jews every day. Hindus are huge, Buddhists are huge. Aside from the big ones you have all the various tribal religions of the world. Atheists account for about 7% of the Earth's total population, which is three percent lower than polls from ten years ago. It would make more sense to ask whether atheism will exist in a thousand years.

Answer 3

well think about it- we look at some cultures who have the "rain god" and the "sun god". the reason they had those gods was because they themselves could not scientifically explain why it rains sometimes and not other times, why the sun goes down and comes back up every single morning. they could not explain it, so there must be some supernatural being that controls it. right now, we cannot explain how everything around us was first created. it all comes back to the (presently) unanswerable question of the chicken or the egg. sometime in the future, science may come accross a breakthrought that disproves all religion watsoever, but it wont matter. people will still beleieve because it is important to hold that spot in your mind that there is an entity greater than u, one that u can always turn to. religion is more than something to go to on sundays, it is a small reference for even the darkest of days.

Answer 4

I hope religion will be extinct in 1000 yrs, but sooner would be better like the next 40 yrs. Hopefully ppl will come to understand that there is one spirit sustaining all life.
Religion is another man made thing which doesn't work & has only divided people, so if religion dies out then it'll be one less obstacle to having peace on earth.

Answer 5

Because irrationality is easier than thinking, religion is likely to survive in some form.

Remember, even Christianity isn't the same religion it once was; like the royal family of Britain, it knows how to adapt just enough to fool people into thinking it's still relevant.

Answer 6

The great SF writer Arthur C. Clarke has predicted that in the future only the most ascetic forms of Buddhism and a merger of Xianity and Islam (which he calls "Chrislam") will survive. Religion is certainly on the decline--even in that most extreme of militant theocracies called the United States of America.

Answer 7

You seem to be confused about religion and Christianity; there is a difference. Everybody has religion, of one kind or another. Even atheism is a form of religion because people are dedicated to their beliefs, regardless of what they are.

I am a born-again Christian and I don't believe that "religion" is of any significance. It all comes down to whether or not a person is true follower of Jesus Christ. When the end of life comes, that is all that will count.

Answer 8

I hope that blind religious dogma will make way for genuine spirituality, which I define as a combination of universal compassion, optimism, genuine and objective curiosity about the "big" questions, etc. However, only time will tell. I do think that religion as we know it is dying out. No, perhaps a better word is changing, though into something worse or better, I don't know.

Answer 9

People have been predicting the death of religion for hundreds of years now, and it seems that their predictions were just wishful thinking.

How Christianity it on its "last legs" when it has billions of follows around the world and is growing -- especially in the third world?

Seems that Islam is growing too, so I'm not sure where you get your information from.

Answer 10

I think that there will always be a mass of people that need to have the pain of life covered up with religion. A people that will never have the ability to see beyond the desire for an after life. So no, I don't think so. But I do think it will change dramatically. I agree that Christianity is going out, and Muslims cannot survive for long with the pace they are on. But people need their opium, and religion is the opium for the masses.
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Answer 11

If human beings are still about in 1,000 years, there will be plenty of dodos to foster some form of religious belief.