How long will it take for mankind to outgrow Religion and Spirituality?

Question

A few centuries, or another 2000 years?

Answer 1

Pshh, there's a never-ending supply of stupidity in the world, isn't there? I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Answer 2

When will mankind know everything about life and death and what happens after you die ? Only when this occurs will the need for blind faith be replaced with actual knowledge.

Every day some hard working researcher improves mans understanding of the physical laws that govern our universe. This increase in knowledge hasn't filled the need for religious spirituality.

Personally, I think that science and spirituality are not mutually exclusive. To loosely paraphrase Thomas Paine " Man discerns the physical laws of the universe through observation and deduction. He does not create these laws. At all times the brilliance of the author of those laws should shine through" Something started it all. All the matter dispersed by the big bang had to come from somewhere. It always was is just as presumptious as saying god always was and always will be. Whatever started the ball rolling has my vote for what people refer to as God.

Answer 3

"The adoption of democracy is fatal to good government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must produce chaos from which a NEW WORLD tyranny will arise. You can never have revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have democracy in order to have a revolution" ― Robert Welch - Republics and Democracies pg. 7
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What the Church has been for medieval man, the public school must become for democratic and rational man. GOD WOULD BE REPLACED BY THE CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC GOOD." ― Horace Mann, father of public education
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“Humanism is the denial of God and the total affirmation of man. Humanism is really nothing else but Marxism.” ― Karl Marx, Economic Politigue et Philsophie
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"It is absurd to say that one is a humanist but not a feminist. Feminism is the last evolutionary development of humanism. Feminism is humanism on its most advanced level." ― Raine Eisler, Humanist Magazine Nov/Dec 1980, Author of Equal Rights ERA Handbook.
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“The next century can be and should be the humanistic century. We stand at the dawn of a NEW AGE, a secular society on a planetary scale. As non-theists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity. We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds. Thus we look to the development of a system of world law and a WORLD ORDER based upon transnational federal government. The true revolution is occurring.” ― Humanist Manifesto II, published in 1973
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At the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, David Rockefeller thanked the media for covering up elite plans for the "supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers." “It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years."
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"The International government of the (UN) United Nations, stripped of it's legal trimming, then, is really the International Government of the United States and the Soviet Union acting in Unison." From the American Jewish Committee's official magazine "Commentary" of Nov. 1958, Pg. 376

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"The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of a [One] World Government ..." -- AMERICAN MERCURY MAGAZINE, December 1957, pg. 92.
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"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right MAJOR CRISIS, and the nations will accept the NEW WORLD ORDER." ― David Rockefeller — Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)



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Answer 4

I hope we never do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if there was no moral compass? It would be as if every futuristic horror movie came true. It's okay to murder...it's okay to steal.... you're 30 years old? time to execute you......eat this food, it's made from the 30-year-old we just executed; it's fresh!......the law says you can only have one child, either give this one up for adoption, or we'll kill it for you......it's not your child anyway, it belongs to the state......don't worry about using this toxic paint,production is all that matters......

We don't need LESS religion and spirituality, we need MORE. Part of the unhappiness you feel is the absence of spirituality-people scoff at believers, but what you don't realize is the content and safety of being with other believers. We probably get too enthusiastic, and doubters can't process this, and think we're crazy, but we're really happy inside.

Answer 5

xtians are some distance too delusional to appreciate they are handling mythology ripped off from Egyptian mythology. xitans are way too straightforward in the pinnacle to appreciate the version between faith and spirituality. heck the different day I without notice met a query the place one in all them noobs claimed that xtianity had not something to do with faith. perchance they should in basic terms make a area for cretinity and we could shove all of them down there? Y!A needs to enhance a gadget wherein you attempt to invite a stupid question the place it does not belong (ie each and every of the fool fangirls and their twilight crap at right here) and it immediately gets redirected and published the place it belongs, television or cretinity. Yeah the Cretinity type incredibly should be carried out and it needs to suck each and every of the beside the point questions and redirect them there. Kinda like the 'end result & nuts' sequence for Y!A. The equivalent of eBay's 'each and every thing else".

Answer 6

it will never be outgrown.


it is not something that can be outgrown. "religion" may......but the belief in Christ and higher powers will never just die out because every day that you wake up, every breath you breathe is a testament that it is real.

besides.....signs are everywhere about the upcoming advent. im a seventh day adventist ...(and no....do NOT asscociate us with the davidians from waco texas) and we believe in a second coming. revelation tells of signs....earthquakes, hurricanes.... disease.....war. and no... i am not a crazy fanatic. i simply read it, take a look around and think to myself....hmmm....would you look at that. its exactly how its said. funny thing too is that muslims and other cultures have signs like that too and all theirs is happening as well so obviously something is happenning. i see a trend here.

so my theory is.......that the second coming will be here soon....could be a year...10....100...1000 yrs or maybe tommorrow. but it will never die out because its real and somewhere.......someone will always know and beleive in it.

Answer 7

Well, if man continues on without first destroying himself, then I would say it won't ever be grown out of. Religion and spirituality has been around for a long time, and if given the opportunity, will continue to exist for a lot longer.

Answer 8

All you have to do is make sure no one has a spiritual experience. That's ALL.

As soon as someone has a spiritual experience, you are going to lose some people. They will think that you are trying to control a natural part of themselves. And that hasn't shown to be a very good thing for people who think the way you do.

You didn't have a spiritual experience, so anyone who says they did are either looney, on drugs, or lying about it. Right?

So I guess we now have to feel sorry for you, because your spirit is asleep. And that's not my fault!

Answer 9

Fundametalism religion lags 200 years behind modern reason and science. So it will be 2059 until most of everyone accepts evolution. So as soon as science proves beyond a reasonable that god does not exist, that religion is detrimental or that all Holy Books are untrue, it will be 200 years until everyone else accepts it. =P

Answer 10

I don't think it would happen while there is still poverty in the world.

Look at all the people in poverty today. They all have one thing in common.

They beleive that someway or somehow the god they believe in is looking down on them and will lend his/her helping hand to them. They have stronger beliefs than most people who are living a good easy life. No matter how bad their life is, they still say god is on their side.

Answer 11

We're still a primitive species as far as I'm concerned. I think religion and the acts of man towards one another speaks to how primitive we are. Bunch of monkeys running around for the most part.