Will religion become extinct?
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
I think that humans were basically hardwired to believe in something, to seek truth in what they see and experience, to ask cosmic questions like why we're here etc. Some people may not appear interested in these things at all times, but I think if push came to shove even the people who are normally uninterested in such things would look for something to believe in, to hope towards. Maybe not everyone, but most people.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
I agree. The election of Barack proves this true.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Europe is a bit screwed up right now, morally and otherwise, so I wouldn't look to their trends as something to emulate.
I think that humans were basically hardwired to believe in something, to seek truth in what they see and experience, to ask cosmic questions like why we're here etc. Some people may not appear interested in these things at all times, but I think if push came to shove even the people who are normally uninterested in such things would look for something to believe in, to hope towards. Maybe not everyone, but most people.
No, I don't think that religeon will come to an end. The point about more info being out there made sense, that if people know about lots of theories and religeons they have more choices so we see a wider variety of afiliations.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
I concur. I think religion is about to hit Europe in a major way and save it from itself, or TPTB.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
I think that humans were basically hardwired to believe in something, to seek truth in what they see and experience, to ask cosmic questions like why we're here etc.
I sure hope that science is an acceptable something to believe in and use to seek truth in what I see and experience, because it's the only thing I've found that works for that.
I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
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I wasn't aware Science and Religion were meant to be
mutually exclusive 
I sincerely doubt Riona is arguing against science.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Will religion become extinct?
God willing.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:
I wasn't aware Science and Religion were meant to be mutually exclusive
Meant is a rather interesting choice of words. One was not created with the sole purpose of countering the other, but that does tend to be a side effect.
I was never very religious, but even I have grown less so the more I learn about the nature of the physical world. Hearing engineers mocking the 'intelligence' of our 'design' is convincing to me all by itself, but grows more so as I find out more about said design. Belief systems started out trying to explain why the world was how it was. Most of them don't do a very good job of it, because they attribute human thinking and such to what is essentially chemistry. Here in the 21st century, when we can actually observe some part of the pattern that makes up the universe, the need to anthropomorphize it decreases.
As the world starts to make more sense, superstitions in general make less.
I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
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I suppose this conversation has reached a point where I must admit I'm an atheist and a scientist.
Before we commence open warfare, I would like to negotiate my own neutrality, mostly because I want to peg people with some water balloons. And you think you'll expect it because I just told you.
But you won't.
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Science is cool and we'd be sunk without an understanding of it.
I do not find that my increasing understanding of how the world works as I've gotten older has dampened or dented my Christianity.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Europe is a bit screwed up right now, morally and otherwise, so I wouldn't look to their trends as something to emulate.
I think that humans were basically hardwired to believe in something, to seek truth in what they see and experience, to ask cosmic questions like why we're here etc. Some people may not appear interested in these things at all times, but I think if push came to shove even the people who are normally uninterested in such things would look for something to believe in, to hope towards. Maybe not everyone, but most people.
No, I don't think that religeon will come to an end. The point about more info being out there made sense, that if people know about lots of theories and religeons they have more choices so we see a wider variety of afiliations.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
I concur. I think religion is about to hit Europe in a major way and save it from itself, or TPTB.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
Not sure how religion is supposed to "save Europe from itself". The darkest times in Europe's history tended to center on religion of one form or another.
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