[Serious] The love of a God

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Religions aren't untouchable, they can be destroyed.  Just ask the christians.  I wouldn't be concerned with his friends belief in god so much as the nascent prosperity gospel explanation of charitable donations, your no5.  It's not a true belief, but it's a fit belief.  It mainly preys on desperate people who would very much like to believe in miracles, and miracles for them, and miracles in the form of money for them.....but that's not actually the direction that this particular miracle of money flows.

Yes, you are right, since many religions have been forgotten along with their gods.
But in the case of judaism, christianity, islam, mormonism, hinduism, budhism, and possibly others, now that they have survived and reached the age of the printing press and computer age, it would be hard to destroy these religions totally.
There will always be a printed copy, or a floppy disk file copy, or some other medium somewhere.

Even if the number of believers reaches 0, one of these religions might rise up again.
The chances probably vary. Mormonism probably would have the least chance since it is too new and too obviously fake.

Ancient Egyptian religion lasted over 3 thousand years. At one stage the cult of Amun was wealthier than Pharaoh. From memory, during the reign of the great heretic Akhenaten, 14th century bce.  Suited Akhenaten, he took it all back and closed  all the temples, except those to Aten. A bit like a much loopier Henry V111 , who made a fortune from the dissolution of the monasteries  in the sixteenth century.


As far as I'm aware, the oldest extant religion is probably Zoroastrianism/ Parsi, which is over 2000 year old. Origins possibly go back four thousand years. Today it has 3 members and a cat.  (OK, I jest, it has an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 members today)

All human institutions and systems eventually disappear.  Glad I probably won't be around when international capitalism crumbles.

Ramses the Great was arguably Egypt's greatest pharaoh  because he build so many wonderful monuments to himself.( For my money it was Amenhotep 111)

He is  appropriately memorialised by Percy Bysshe Shelley in Ozymandias (that was an ancient Greek name for Ramses 11)


I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

— Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"[4]