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Will the religions of today eventually die out?
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Edited on Mon Mar-01-04 10:57 AM by fujiyama
I was wondering what you all think of today's religions and cults compared to those of the past, such as the gods of ancient Greece.

How many more centuries do you predict today's religions will survive? Already in Europe we see an ever decreasing church going population. Many in European countries openly consider themselves atheist.

Even here in the US, while the present government is increasingly theocratic, I believe many are starting to think less of religion.

Though we hear much of religious conflicts, many of these are proxy battles for other causes such as territory, cultural history, etc. As more people embrace modern science, religion inevitably will be seen more and more outdated.

Am I mistaken?
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  -Will the religions of today eventually die out? fujiyama  Mar-01-04 10:52 AM   #0 
  - Mainstream Christianity is out of touch with reality.  DenverDem   Mar-01-04 10:55 AM   #1 
  - Maybe not  Az   Mar-01-04 11:00 AM   #3 
     - "opposition of knowledge" - sigh - cute, AZ - I don't think you have  papau   Mar-01-04 11:21 AM   #11 
     - Actually  Az   Mar-01-04 12:07 PM   #27 
        - Marketing? - and Distribution -indeed that is a way to view religion  papau   Mar-01-04 12:42 PM   #33 
           - More biology than marketting  Az   Mar-01-04 01:02 PM   #38 
              - I miss discussions like this!  papau   Mar-01-04 01:59 PM   #41 
                 - Religion is the rider on society  Az   Mar-01-04 03:04 PM   #52 
                    - We do not easily let go of belief-indeed Science truth changes as new folk  papau   Mar-01-04 04:15 PM   #53 
                       - Perhaps you are using Personal Philosophy instead of religion  Az   Mar-01-04 04:33 PM   #54 
                          - Folks do not know the oral /written history without being told or reading?  papau   Mar-01-04 08:09 PM   #58 
                             - The claim  Az   Mar-02-04 08:13 AM   #61 
     - Your last sentence makes sense to me,  Snow   Mar-01-04 11:35 AM   #18 
        - Evolution  Az   Mar-01-04 12:01 PM   #23 
           - And sometimes Evolution is just not the explanation!  papau   Mar-01-04 02:03 PM   #44 
           - Cargo cults  starroute   Mar-01-04 03:02 PM   #51 
              - Very True  papau   Mar-02-04 07:42 AM   #60 
  - I personally don't think much of xtianity..  Anaxamander   Mar-01-04 10:58 AM   #2 
  - All will  felonious thunk   Mar-01-04 11:01 AM   #4 
  - One day, soon I believe, we will know how to keep our  new_beawr   Mar-01-04 11:02 AM   #5 
  - Great, so the immortals will be Gods....  Bridget Burke   Mar-01-04 12:26 PM   #31 
     - Not so different than what we're experiencing now anyway.  new_beawr   Mar-01-04 02:02 PM   #43 
  - If the level of non-biological memory archiving had been present  TXlib   Mar-01-04 11:02 AM   #6 
  - I agree - and for the record, Zeus continues in Northern Pak, and Afghan  papau   Mar-01-04 11:24 AM   #13 
     - Really? How interesting!  TXlib   Mar-01-04 11:32 AM   #17 
        - Zoroastrianism is alive and actually fairly healthy,  Snow   Mar-01-04 11:36 AM   #19 
        - The Zoroastrians are also alive and well in India  Lydia Leftcoast   Mar-01-04 11:43 AM   #22 
        - fertility "cult"  blindpig   Mar-01-04 01:20 PM   #39 
           - The same stories, retold over and over.  LeahMira   Mar-01-04 02:35 PM   #47 
              - indeed  blindpig   Mar-01-04 02:55 PM   #49 
  - not hinduism  lionesspriyanka   Mar-01-04 11:02 AM   #7 
  - hi  burythehatchet   Mar-01-04 11:17 AM   #10 
     - could be better...:)  lionesspriyanka   Mar-01-04 11:42 AM   #21 
        - Monday blues  burythehatchet   Mar-01-04 12:03 PM   #24 
  - Interesting take on that question.  oneighty   Mar-01-04 11:05 AM   #8 
  - everything dies.. that's a fact  Kamika   Mar-01-04 11:12 AM   #9 
  - All of them (at least the theistic ones). (NT)  Atlant   Mar-01-04 11:21 AM   #12 
  - This one won't  JCCyC   Mar-01-04 11:25 AM   #14 
  - Indeed  Robb   Mar-01-04 11:30 AM   #16 
  - all things must pass  leftofthedial   Mar-01-04 11:25 AM   #15 
  - I thnk a charismatic, saintly leader can do much for a religion  Snow   Mar-01-04 11:38 AM   #20 
  - if they don't kill off humanity first  AndyTiedye   Mar-01-04 12:12 PM   #29 
  - The impulse to ponder the imponderable does not die  Lydia Leftcoast   Mar-01-04 12:06 PM   #25 
  - None of the emigrants from the Soviet Union I have met are religious  SpikeTrees   Mar-01-04 03:00 PM   #50 
     - My data point is the Russian emigres in Portland  Lydia Leftcoast   Mar-01-04 06:10 PM   #57 
        - Understood. Thank you  SpikeTrees   Mar-02-04 09:57 AM   #63 
  - Not the Catholic Church  Strapping Buck   Mar-01-04 12:06 PM   #26 
  - By the standards of art, Christianity died with the Renaissance  starroute   Mar-01-04 12:47 PM   #34 
  - Not in our lifetimes, nor our grandchildren's.  Blue-Jay   Mar-01-04 12:08 PM   #28 
  - The split between science and religion is a historical anomaly  starroute   Mar-01-04 12:19 PM   #30 
  - Possibly....  TreasonousBastard   Mar-01-04 12:29 PM   #32 
  - Christianity in general will probably last  Dob Bole   Mar-01-04 12:48 PM   #35 
  - They will evolve  GreenPartyVoter   Mar-01-04 12:49 PM   #36 
  - May not die out; but,  myopic4141   Mar-01-04 12:56 PM   #37 
  - or not.  ArkDem   Mar-01-04 01:47 PM   #40 
  - Mainstream Christianity will suddenly dissappear in the near future  JasonDeter   Mar-01-04 01:59 PM   #42 
  - One day there will be Jedi and the Church of Elvis as pop culture creates  7blades   Mar-01-04 02:04 PM   #45 
  - Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the ...  chiburb   Mar-01-04 02:30 PM   #46 
  - What a truly delightful thought.  LibertyorDeath   Mar-01-04 02:54 PM   #48 
  - I Hope So.  arwalden   Mar-01-04 04:46 PM   #55 
  - "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled...  asteroid2003QQ47   Mar-01-04 05:59 PM   #56 
  - Unfortunately not for a long time it seems.  MrSlayer   Mar-01-04 08:34 PM   #59 
  - Secular Humanism.  ArkDem   Mar-02-04 09:21 AM   #62 
 

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