In the future there will be no religion!

Ricardo said:
You can't interpret the gospels to the letter! have to interpret figuratively!

Loving others is a good idea!
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And loving others is a good idea that existed before the religion of Christianity and will exist long after.

If by "religion" you man education that teaches and encourages compassion, sure we need that as a part of our culture. However compassion transcends what most people call religion and has usually been impaired by what most people call religion.
 
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Ricardo there is a science church! That's right the church of Christ Scientist (Mary Baker Eddy and the key to the scriptures) Unfortunately the word Science is defined by the word Christian. The followers believe that disease is an illusion. You are probably familiar with the children who died at the hands of parents because the child was not allowed to see a doctor.

My own mother a, Christian Scientist, refused to let the high school I attended administer a polio shot. I took the note and signed it myself. Too many pictures of iron lungs. I was about 13 at the time.

Oddly enough the Church publishes the Christian Science Monitor, a well respected newspaper with no religion involved.
 
Belz... said:
Hasn't managed to yet. And it's been at it for centuries.

No, in the future we'll just have different religions, with some masquarading as science.
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Science may not have destroyed religion yet. However it is making progress. Before the modern printing press in the 1400s everyone was deeply religious. If in Europe then you were mostly Catholic. After Martin Luther and King Henry 8 there started many other churches. Then people started questioning religion and it became less important. Now only a minority of people go to a place of worship at least once a month.
 
Belz... said:
Hasn't managed to yet. And it's been at it for centuries.

No, in the future we'll just have different religions, with some masquarading as science.
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Scorpion said:
We already have one, its called scientology.
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arthwollipot said:
Scientology bears as little resemblance to science as Christian Science does.
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IMO, Scorpion's comment is a fair one. The core tenet of Scientology (Dianetics) does masquerade as science, even if there is zero scientific basis for any of it.
 
I read the thread title and wish it was yesterday sciences killed religion, all of them.

But I fear if that were true there would be a good 2/3 of world population with nothing to hope for, nothing to work for and worse, no dirty ,( other faith group ) to fear and or plan how to kill.
They would have nothing to do but go look for a job or something.

Most don't know or care about sciences or technology, they would reinvent a god or gods to fill the hole and make him offer them eternal life or something.

It's what people do.
 
Ricardo said:
will science kill religion?
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Only in combination with welfare. If you don't have access to science-based medicine, you'll go to a witch doctor if that's your only option. If you see no way of feeding your children, you may pray for a solution. Improving the standards of living kills religion.

A new article in the NY Times, Scandinavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists, also shows that if people have reason to feel secure and safe because the conditions of life are, if not top notch then at least more than tolerable as far as ”life expectancy, child welfare, literacy, schooling, economic equality, standard of living” are concerned, they seem to lose the need to believe.
The Death-of-Religion thread
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Ricardo said:
Myriad said:
Which religion must unite with science?
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Christianity
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Ricardo said:
the doctrine of Jesus Christ
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It has been tried before: The Catholic Church and science: Scientific Revolution and the Church (Wikipedia).
Religion didn't like it, so science was faced with the choice of either confirming dogma, i.e. abandon science, or breaking free from the Church. Some chose one way, and they are still around today (see Creation science (Wikipedia)). Others chose to disregard doctrine, trust their own research and abandon religion (see Evolution (Wikipedia)).
 
Ricardo said:
Religion must unite with science.
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That would make science so much easier. You get stuck or an experiment doesn't work out? It's obvious God did it! Or we are not meant to know.


The god of the Jews and Christians is already scared we will become like him. He flipped out on Adam and Eve and the builders of the Tower of Babel because we got too close to godhood for his liking.
 
The gigantic memeplexes of religion have been replaced slowly by politics. They are the exact same phenomena: Clusters of memes getting people to behave in ways to seize the brass ring of power.

It's the seizure of the brass ring of power that is the problem, and why freedom is the solution, just as it was with religion.

We now return you to your conversation arguing about how many angels are on the head of a pin.
 
The Atheist said:
Sure!

I recall fondly the confidence with which I announced to my mates in Form 5 at school (11th Grade for Americans) that religion would be dead and gone by the year 2000, then still over a quarter of a century away. How did that turn out?

Science, nor anything else, will ever kill religion.

People wants to believe.
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Douai, my old place, shut in 1999, so you weren't far wrong. :-)

Here's the thing, though, The Atheist, religion, at school, was just something that we sort of did, a bit like maths or chemistry. Certainly for me it wasn't a big deal. I basically drifted out of it once I left. My old place was responsible for inflicting Swing Low, Sweet Chariot on the world :-)
 
rjh01 said:
Science may not have destroyed religion yet. However it is making progress. Before the modern printing press in the 1400s everyone was deeply religious.
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Were they deeply, though? Or were they mostly just practicing Christians who spent little of their time thinking about it because they had a lot more stuff to do, day-to-day?
 
rjh01 said:
Before the modern printing press in the 1400s everyone was deeply religious.
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And then came the dime novels, penny dreadfuls, and the Comic Books! Popular music, dancing, the theater, movies, TV, video games, Facebook, Twitter, skateboards! They took Bible and prayer out of our schools. They put Norse gods in our movies!

And most are still deeply superstitious!
 
Belz... said:
Were they deeply, though? Or were they mostly just practicing Christians who spent little of their time thinking about it because they had a lot more stuff to do, day-to-day?
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Lots of things were done in the name of religion. Like the crusades. Many people were burned alive for being the wrong religion. Galileo was put under house arrest because his knowledge was in conflict with the church. Many very big churches were built with lots of labor. There are heaps more examples showing that many people took religion seriously.
 
Will we call ourselves Unified Atheist League or United Atheist Alliance or Allied Atheist Allegiance?
 
Meh. They told me in the future there would be Rollerball.

No Rollerball.

"Always in motion is the future," Yoda said. But not Rollerball motion, apparently.
 
Myriad said:
Meh. They told me in the future there would be Rollerball.

No Rollerball.

"Always in motion is the future," Yoda said. But not Rollerball motion, apparently.
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But were are not yet in the future, we remain in the present.
"Jam yesterday, and jam tomorrow, but never jam today."
 
The Atheist said:
Sure!

I recall fondly the confidence with which I announced to my mates in Form 5 at school (11th Grade for Americans) that religion would be dead and gone by the year 2000, then still over a quarter of a century away. How did that turn out?

Science, nor anything else, will ever kill religion.

People wants to believe.
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Fear not that the tyrants shall rule forever
Or the priests of the bloody faith
They stand at the brink of a mighty river
Whose waves they have tainted with death

It is fed from the depths of a thousand dells
Around them it foams and rages and swells
And their swords and their sceptres floating I see
Like wrecks on the surge of eternity
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Shelley wrote that about 200 years ago. I have had it memorized for over 50 years. Yet it persists.

Yes, people wants to believe.
 
Belz... said:
Were they deeply, though? Or were they mostly just practicing Christians who spent little of their time thinking about it because they had a lot more stuff to do, day-to-day?
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I guess most unbelievers tended to shut up about it. I know that I wouldn't have proclaimed my disbelief under those circumstances. But some were brave or foolish enough to be frank about it: Atheism for Dummies (for European examples go to p. 89).
 
Belz... said:
Hasn't managed to yet. And it's been at it for centuries.

No, in the future we'll just have different religions, with some masquarading as science.
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But science is advancing and religion retreating. Science will chase religion down and maybe not slaughter it, but at the least neuter it... eventually.
I'm one of those rare optimistic atheists.
 
Pfft. The norse religion is already scientific. Watch me prove it with EVIDENCE: Thor kills frost giants. Have you seen any frost giants lately? QED. :p
 
Belz... said:
Hasn't managed to yet. And it's been at it for centuries.

No, in the future we'll just have different religions, with some masquarading as science.
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Cheetah said:
But science is advancing and religion retreating. Science will chase religion down and maybe not slaughter it, but at the least neuter it... eventually.
I'm one of those rare optimistic atheists.
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I'm with Cheetah here and optimistic also.

A century or two ago the average dude did not have much knowledge of science to draw upon Belz. Mind you there are some of the religious today, who chose to ignore the knowledge the scientific method has given us, but these folk are not so common. Bill O'Reilly is one of the later, or perhaps rather than ignore, is just too ignorant to know much. Awestruck was the best way to describe my feeling, when he displayed zero comprehension about the cause of tidal movement.
 
The rather unique road of the USA to non-religion:

No rich country prays nearly as much as the U.S, and no country that prays as much as the U.S. is nearly as rich.
America’s unique synthesis of wealth and worship has puzzled international observers and foiled their grandest theories of a global secular takeover.
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But in the early 1990s, the historical tether between American identity and faith snapped. Religious non-affiliation in the U.S. started to rise—and rise, and rise. Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? (The Atlantic, Sep. 26, 2019)
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Religion has made many super rich. People are making millions of tax free dollars by simply reading the Bible and preaching about belief in gods.

Religion will not be eradicated when it is probably the easiest way to make lots of tax free money.
 
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dejudge said:
Religion has made many super rich. People are making millions of tax free dollars by simply reading the Bible and preaching about belief in gods.

Religion will not be eradicated when it is probably the easiest way to make lots of tax free money.
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Correction. A few organisations, like the Catholic church, are making millions of tax free dollars by their slaves preaching about belief in god or gods.
 
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