(October 9, 2017 at 6:42 am)chimp3 Wrote: Scenario:
At Midnight GMT a small miracle occurs. Everywhere , all at once, religion disappears. Every trace of it. Every holy book, every deity, every hymn, every religious symbol. Every memory of religion disappears from the human mind. Some people wake up and wonder why they are wearing funny hats (We will keep the hats for this exercise). The rest of human memory, culture, cuisine, art, song, industry, technology, science, medicine remains as is.
What do you think will happen?
This is interesting. With no memory of religion, there would also be no recollection of why religion is goofy. As a new religion inevitably developed, I think we'd see a lot of people who were vehement atheists through cultural inevitability be the first to lineup for the new religions, and some of the brighter religious folk, without the lifetime of conditioning, become some of the more outspoken atheists.
The battle would exist socially, and the scales would tip heavily based on whether being religious was considered the 'in thing to do.'
