RE: My hypothesis on the current future of religion.
October 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I am very inspired by Star Trek on this and I think that religion will cease to exist in the world where money is not important anymore, because until then you will always have people spreading their false propaganda and suckers that will fall for it. I mean just look at Xtians and their denominations they're everywhere spreading lies on radio and TV and some people just listen to them and no one else. For instance when James Randy exposed Peter Popoff it took 6 months for people to get the news because they don't follow regular channels since they consider them immoral. Even then there are people that still believe even in Uri Geller because there are disinformation that he is indeed real and masonic leaden media is lying.
And how do we get that society? Perhaps by developing nuclear fusion?
So maybe in a world where science is even more important will perhaps stimulate people more to get interested in science, because most people have intelligence somewhere on the same level but it is motivation that lots of people are lacking. For instance math is for most people useless and consider it as something that you only need to know if you want to be a math teacher, but imagine if we were living in the world where spaceships flew in the skies, people were discovering evolution of life forms on other planets and so on, where science enabled people not to waste their day working for heat and food but to think (just imagine that world would be ridden of crime almost completely) then almost everybody would be motivated to know more.
And how do we get that society? Perhaps by developing nuclear fusion?
So maybe in a world where science is even more important will perhaps stimulate people more to get interested in science, because most people have intelligence somewhere on the same level but it is motivation that lots of people are lacking. For instance math is for most people useless and consider it as something that you only need to know if you want to be a math teacher, but imagine if we were living in the world where spaceships flew in the skies, people were discovering evolution of life forms on other planets and so on, where science enabled people not to waste their day working for heat and food but to think (just imagine that world would be ridden of crime almost completely) then almost everybody would be motivated to know more.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
