Religion in the future

[sly_wolf 199]

Religion is overrated.

Sly

[PlatyPius 5]

I would like to think that at some point in the future, humans will evolve beyond the need for primitive gods, stories, and such. Gods were created when things like lightning and thunder were unexplained, world-ending phenomena. We don't cower in caves in terror when lightning flashes now (well, most of us anyway), nor do we think that magnetism is High Magick and those who wield its power to be Witches, Sorcerers, or Magicians. Yet, primitive man's religion lives on....

[mawilson 2,133]

Religion will exist for as long as there are idiots on this planet to fall for it.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Some of you here might enjoy a movie I heard about today on NPR (I love NPR):

Religulous

by Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Religion will exist for as long as there are idiots on this planet to fall for it.

Unfortunately, I think you're right.

[IAMX 3,055]

Wow...I love how it's ok to belittle someone else's beliefs by reducing it down to soundbytes. Why is it trendy now to talk about how silly or stupid God/religion is and how judgemental and intolerant they are of others? Seems a bit hypocritical to me. I love my fiancee for all his complexities, "warts" and all, because I have spent time to get know him.

Great, you respect your SO despite their flaws which everyone has. Good for you! No, seriously, that's great thing, but that's also common friggen sense.

It isn't really a soundbyte it was part of a show which sadly I can't post it's entirety here. If you search Youtube you might find it segmented into parts (due to Youtube having a limit on video time per video). It is a pretty damn good argument put forth and even has a religious guy arguing his side of it, which I could probably have argued better for him.

For some people (I believe in 2007 only about 3% of the world population was reported to be athiests), it's like that for their faith.

Faith is great, but your faith is likely in "God". The bible is not "God", it's a book. Made by humans. Edited by humans. I don't care to argue faith in a diety, I care to argue this stupid book people like to use to infringe upon the rights of others. They also conveniently put that above a piece of paper called the Constitution, when using their beliefs upon others, telling them what constitutes as love and marriage. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't go around judging others' SO's just from what little I know about them on this site. Same for someone's faith. Whether someone believes in God or not, I think more understanding and respect is deserved--from all sides.

Who was judging what SO? I wasn't judging anything but the bible and man-made religions.

That being said, the video was kinda funny

It was. You should see their videos on stuff like "vortexes", "UFOs", "profanity", etc.

[ramin 0]

How many of today's religions will still be around in the future, do you think? Will some of the smaller ones die off? Merge? Will newer ones be created? Will one religion dominate and, if so, which one? Will this be a worldwide trend or just in isolated areas? Will Europe drop religion completely? Will the US welcome new pilgrims from it? Will it take 50 years? 100? 200?

Your thoughts, please.

Hi everyone,

I think Bahai Faith would be the one to unite the humantiy!

http://www.bahai.org/

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I have no problem with most religions since we all end up praying to the same God. We just need to learn how to respect one another and the ways we used to communicate with God. That's all.

Diana

[SpiritAlight 1]

Okay...wow YouTube can suck me in.

I looked for more on Penn and Teller and found the long version:

which brought me to this:

although I did not appreciate their ideas on paganism, even though it was brief.

There are tons of things to watch and read on how "modern" religions borrowed/stole their ideas from paganism.

The pagan way was the original connection to the earth, the stars, the moon, the sun and all of their natural cycles.

Those were celebrated....some things were even personified as gods and goddesses.

What each of us believes is up to each of us (obviously).

The only important thing to realize at this point is this:

Can we allow for differences, if that is what we (as humans) need, without having to dominate, force, oppress, appropriate, ridicule, kill.

Accept.

Allow.

Surrender.

[Amby 490]

I'll tell my dad to pray about it and let me know what he finds out

[SpiritAlight 1]

Oops.

I forgot the most important one

(although I put it in this thread already somewhere):

LOVE, baby, LOVE!

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