With all the wars.. scientific discoveries.. Al Gore movies.. going "green".. ect.. where is our religion going in this 21st century??
Religion has come a long, long way and has been around for a long, long time. It has made its way in to hundreds of different cultures evolving into new religions in order for it to continue to spread.
Is this a turning point for religion? Will there be some sort of new "hippy".. enviromental spin off of the traditional christianity that we have today? People are looking for answers to why things happen, why they exsist, where they came from. Science can give answers with proof. Therefore, faith is no longer required if seeing is believing. Do you think that some of our basic practices will fade away.. like the concept of faith or prayer?
Where do you think this will be in 50 years? Will it make the world a better place? Or is this just another cause to fight a war over?
2007-12-12 00:46:11 · 14 answers · asked by ladyusc229 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As with all things.... it is being swallowed up by oblivion.... slowly but surely succumbing to entropy.
Nothing is destroyed immediately. Rather it is being whittled away in the minds of the populace... slowly ground down so there is less and less of it.... and it holds less and less importance. And when it finally dies off completely, nobody will even remember it any more.
2007-12-12 00:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Science will never have all the answers - there are always new questions - and faith will always have a home. Poeple will laways find a way to believe what they want to believe. Within 100 years, we will see another "major" religion develop, though it will have all the characteristics of every other major religion; comfort and answers for those needing comfort and answers, open-arms to new members, a charismatic leader making promises and predictions never to be fulfilled, an us-against-them persecution scenario, and a passion for taking credit for all that is good and blame to others for all that is bad. Scientology is proof of how easy a model it is to replicate. Someone somewhere will find themeselves in a "miraculous" situation and exploit it.
2007-12-12 00:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion will stay with us because it is necessary. We may have some bad apples inside some of our religions, that are causing great harm at the moment. Also traditional religion may be stuck in the past to much, and not very open to good spiritual ideas that are from other sources, or are new. But with the challenge to our morality, represented by advanced science and technology, and the struggle we will have dealing with the problems resulting, Religion of a more advanced form will have to develop. Necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of spiritual inovation, research using dreams, and hyponotism, new training techniques, and a more updated version of God should result. Atheism won't be eliminated, but it certainly will not take over. That is just a lot of wishful thinking, but very impractical.
2007-12-12 01:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, seeing is not believing, believing is seeing. After all, science is a mortal concept and is only capable of answering mortal questions, it is however inferior in addressing the infinite. As far as where religion is headed unfortuneately I believe it is fading.I don't know why so many people enjoy this concept becouse if you look back you will see the further we have pushed GOD out of our schools the more violence, slaughtering and teen pregnancy we have experienced and as we question whether or not we should include GOD in our society, the more we see parents killing thier children, more violent crimes and more hate. It doesn't really matter to me, let the sheep run to the slaughter, but I will always believe and for that I truly live a charmed life.
"Though a thousand may fall at your left and ten thousand may fall at your right, near you it shall not come".
2007-12-12 00:59:52 · answer #4 · answered by Mc Fly 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I answered a similar question not too long ago. Here it is: I hope all organized religions of every stripe go the way of the dinosaur. They are just big, money-centered businesses that enrich the few leaders and impoverish the masses of adherents. Anybody who tells you otherwise is dishonest or, dare I say it, a liar.
Edit: To Astrogoodwin: "An updated version of God" in the future? Tinkering AGAIN with your Bible to fit the zeitgist? No surprise there. Christians have been messing with version upon version of the Bible for centuries. No wonder it's loaded with inconsistencies...too many authors.
2007-12-12 00:52:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Let's face it, if these I D morons gain any sort of power, they are going to use it ruthlessly, so I think we're heading for another Dark Age --- and the last one continued for six hundred years!
2007-12-12 01:16:38 · answer #6 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Into the Aeon of Horus. The first Aeon was of Isis, the mother Goddess. The second of Osiris, the dead God who rose again. And the 3rd will be of Horus.
2007-12-12 01:07:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the trends we are seeing in Europe will eventually take root here in America. Religion will slowly fade.
2007-12-12 00:54:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Out of all relevance for right thinking people. Most people are totally ambivalent about it, it will slowly fade away I die.
2007-12-12 00:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by Birdy is my real name 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hopefully it will end within the next 50 years.
2007-12-12 00:48:42 · answer #10 · answered by heidavey 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋