Does anyone seriously believe that one day all religion will die?

[Welsh cake]

It's all very well believing there's no God, it's a highly rational outlook. But to then go on a mission, spending all your waking hours arguing God's non-existence, in an attempt to enlighten the world into your viewpoint, is daft.

The majority of atheists aren't arguing the non-existence of deities, they are responding to theistic claims that are arguing for God's evidence-free existence; these same theists who are often in an attempt to enforce their audience to subscribe to their dogma without question, indoctrinate our young, sabotage people's ability to enquiry about reality, and stop others having a more rational outlook on life, which is not as daft as it is vindictive, presumptuous and controlling to the extreme.

Throughout all recorded human history, religion has played a part. Why would you then think that this will ever change?

To respond to your rhetorical question with another – Why would you then think that this will never change?

Darwin taught us that we are animals like the rest. No other animal can change its nature through thought and effort, so then why us?

I reject your statement utterly. You insult those of us who have changed themselves for the better. If that assertion of yours was remotely true I couldn't have possibly deconverted from Christianity even if I tried to. You mention Darwin, yet does the word EVOLUTION mean anything to you? Animals, like us, are constantly changing they don't stagnate; to us the difference from one generation to the next may currently be immeasurably small, it's not until you appreciate that life today is actually an unbroken chain going back millions and millions of years do you see the bigger picture.

Schopenhauer - surely the most realistic of all the philosophers - told as that 'we can do what we will, but we cannot will what we will'. Unlike Dawkins, he truly understood the message of Darwin.

What are you talking about? Schopenhauer was a philosopher, him and several biologists published their work on evolution roughly three decades before Charles Darwin conducted his scientific investigations into the diversity of living organisms. Darwin is credited with acceptance of the theory. You could argue Arthur Schopenhauer was a forerunner of Darwin. Schopenhauer was *not* inspired or influenced by Darwin's work in any manner.

Religion has always been with us and always will. It is insane and ignorant of the realities of darwinism to try and change this. Tolerance and understanding of the failings of human logic (i.e. religion) is the wisest state of mind. Everything else is just pie-in-the-sky talk.

Accept. Tolerate. The world will never be united in a single philosophy. And thank god for that (figure of speech).

Here's a thought experiment for you. You met several people belonging to a cult who announces to you their new religion demands that they sacrifice you to the giant frog god in the sun. Needless to say you'd be the first to accept that what they're doing/proposed in the name of that religion is wholly, ignorantly and abominably wrong - in light of this gross human misconduct I daresay you'd be the first to abandon any notion of tolerance and understanding of such mind states.

Any permissive attitude towards others ideas and beliefs is never unconditional or unlimited, it depends entirely on what those beliefs are, since they ultimately can and often will enforce people's actions sooner or later.

Does anyone really believe religion will one day die out? If not, give up trying to convert people, and begin trying to understand them.

Sure, our religions die out when people either finally wake up and realise it's a steaming pile of fallacious made-up bullshit, or, more likely, when the human race goes extinct.

[Anomalocaris]

Does anyone really believe religion will one day die out? If not, give up trying to convert people, and begin trying to understand them.

Sure, our religions die out when people either finally wake up and realise it's a steaming pile of fallacious made-up bullshit, or, more likely, when the human race goes extinct.

Why would you think people who realise it's a steaming pile of fallacious made-up bullshit would not have reason to pass the steaming pile of fallacious made-up bullshit as truth to people who don't realize it's a steaming pile of fallacious made-up bullshit? It's not always in the interest of those who know to put all other prople closer to equal footing. Maximum private good is not the same as maximum public good.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Does anyone really believe religion will one day die out?

Well,the Egyptian religion lasted for over 3000 years before dying out. I think i't's reasonable to assume all current religions will eventually fade away,to be replaced by God-knows-what. (sorry). Might be something loopy such as Scientology,or personality cults of various kinds such as those often seen in totalitarian states.I mean, we already have Oprah

Since there seems to be a strong correlation between poverty/ignorance/illiteracy and superstition/religion,I suspect some nasty,parasitic forms of religion will continue to be with us for a very long time.

[Captain Scarlet]

Religion is already dead, at leat as a serious attempt to offer up explanations of the natural worls, cosmology and medical science. Whats left?Superstition and myth. Will people ever stop being superstitious? I don't know but I'll ask my rabbits foot for an answer.

[lrh9]

"The cure for mortality will also be the cure for religion." - Me.

[Anomalocaris]

"The cure for mortality will also be the cure for religion." - Me.

A brick can still fall on the head of one who neither ages nor gets sick.

[lrh9]

There will be a solution to prevent or recover from accidents.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

There will be a solution to prevent or recover from accidents.

Really. What about preventing natural disasters,such as floods, earthquakes and volcanoes.Oh,and how do you plan to change the global economy so that no one starves to death? Especially since the human population would explode.


I've always seen the quest for immortality as shallow and self destructive of our species. Unless of course it was limited to me and a chosen few.

[Lethe]

New Mr. Deity episode actually addresses this topic.





Honestly, en masse skepticism is a pipe dream. On an individual level though, getting the cogs to begin turning can be difficult, but not impossible. I guess I should pull out the old MIB line: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

[Soyouz]

I think the modern religion that we have today will vanish in time. But something new will probably show up.