Topic: When will Religions die? - page 20. (Read 20330 times)

Wrong!

Here's an example of religion dying on the vine:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/05/iowa-bible-reading-marathon-cancelled-due-to-lack-of-interest/



The 2 women in the photo appear to be the ONLY volunteers from all of Iowa!  Only 2 Christians bothered to help out! ROFL


When you can't find enough Christians... from 99 counties in Iowa... to participate in a bible reading marathon... you have lost

False.

The trajectory of religion/state relations in China, as traced by Christopher Marsh, has been quite different. In both Russia and China the Communist party maintained atheism as a core element in its ideology, following Marx’s description of religion as the”opium of the people”. In China the attack on religion focused on Christianity as a tool of Western imperialism. Foreign missionaries were expelled, Chinese clergy imprisoned or killed. The regime then set up “patriotic associations” of Protestants and Catholics controlled by the government. Non-Christian religions were paid less attention unless they served to legitimate separatist movements (Islam in the northwest and Buddhism in Tibet). There was less emphasis on atheist propaganda than in the Soviet Union. The most savage assault on all religions (including Buddhism, Taoism, even Confucianism and folk religion—all subsumed under the label of reactionary superstitions) took place during the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to about 1976, when Mao Zedong unleashed the Red Guards in a homicidal frenzy against all institutions, including even the party. This surreal combination of totalitarianism and (barely) controlled anarchy only ended after Mao’s death, and was followed by the re-establishment of order with the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1979. Since then the regime followed a religion policy of “disease control”, which is arguably more Confucian than Marxist in inspiration (the present-day State Administration of Religious Affairs oddly resembles the Department of Rites of imperial China). The control of religion has been incomplete and spotty, subject to changes in party policies and varying by region. But beneath this veneer of political control there has occurred what has been called “religion fever”, a massive upsurge of popular piety, especially in the form of Evangelical Protestantism. It has been estimated that there are now over one-hundred million Christians in China, strongly increasing among urban elites (even including party members). The situation is volatile and hard to predict, but clearly the Chinese case fits quite neatly under the category of desecularization.

Religion inspires people to do good things. Religion makes people slaves. And what good deed can make a slave? For heroism and service to the people can only a strong personality, and any strong personality does not tolerate any coercion or management.

I agree with Daniel that People is the one who is causing problems not Religion.
And I also agree religion could inspire people do more good deeds.

But religion is also addictive, when used to do things in the name of creator

Religion will never die even in the near future. It's part of a living and no one can make them disappear no matter what kind of defaming others will do. If there are people who became less religious, there are also people who became more religious.

No, you are talking about nazism, not religioun.

Please as for refund of fees at your local college. They did horrible job educating you.


None of your ancestors ever lived safer or in more comfy place than you do, snowflake. You have false bias.

Religions are already dying. Among young people, most of the atheists who do not plan to support the religious process and will not force their children to believe in religion.

Religion is the opium of the masses. It will never die. Many run to it as a safe haven during tough times in life. However, with recent nasty happenings around the globe in the name of religion, I'm certain that more people are becoming less religious day by day.

I don't have a religion but i am cute :* lol
Seriously i'm still alive and breathing
I believe in God even without Religion.

As in the world will decrease the number of illiterate people, supporters of different religions will become less. In the end, the attitude towards religion is a simple Association with an ethnic group and nothing more.

I agree that there will be more religion to arise because some do not want or unhappy with their current religion. They will make another one to adopt the good things on it and change those which they do not want and improves it.  And like what you said religion will not die because we want something to believe in.  And religion is a good thing because it really helps you in life.  It makes you feel closer to God.  As long as it teaches what is in the Bible.

religion wont die because people want something to believe in.
many more religion will just continue to arise and the only thing that would cause religion to vanish is when there are no more people.

Religions won't die off until people have evolved more.

Also, the definition of just being a "religion" aka something people believe in having to deal with god, is kind of not the right thing to think about

The question should be "when will people stop having group think" or "when will people stop having any kind of belief".


It is the belief that is the problem. Believing something when there are not facts to base it upon is just not smart. Mostly everything in religion is that, there is no unequiovacal evidence a god or gods exist, but it is also not proven to be untrue.

My opinion is that god or gods do exist, the universe is infinite and came into existence from nothing, if all of this can exist from nothing, then so can anything. To say it can't is absurd.

Maybe you're right. Now the religions that were known before are renewed. People are looking for something new. Many want to own some "secret knowledge" and abilities. And so they become religious

IMO, the religiosity is increasing in the world. The population is declining in secular nations such as China, Japan, France, Germany.etc and is increasing in ultra-religious regions such as Pakistan, GCC, Sub-Saharan Africa.etc. Even a lot of immigrants are coming to the western nations from the religious nations.

Religion is not dead, because as long as someone exists, it will support it, it is the birthplace of the people's faith.

All right. Maybe I could have said it better. But didn't you check out the definition? especially #6? If you don't have your own personal religion in life, you are a vegetable.

"everybody has religion just to be alive."
oh my gosh baddecker, this is not even true, can you show a fact that all people needs religion just to be alive, this is a false information

Wrong! The survey suggests something else. Why? Because by the definition of the word religion ( http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t ), everybody has religion just to be alive. Religion isn't gone. It is simply changing from, perhaps, a more formal one, to a less formal one.

A Record 58% of People in Scotland Have No Religious Affiliation

Scotland has reached a new high when it comes to the percentage of the population with no religious faith.

Just last year, the number was at 52%. But a new survey released by ScotCen Social Research finds that the “Nones” now make up a whopping 58% of the country.