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We are all familiar with how religion has been passed on for generations, spanning over thousands of years: Religious parents inform their children about their faith (which is provably not backed up by science or logic, in most cases) and sometimes (if not mostly, globally speaking) even forces them to follow their lead. They are told that their belief is the only true belief and that all other beliefs are false. Nothing new here.

Now, what if we completely stopped this chain reaction for a moment? We hide all writings containing religious lyrics and stories and make sure that no religious views are passed down to newer generations. All schools in the entire world teaches nothing but scientific facts and theories, while all forms of belief based knowledge is completely disregarded. At this point there may be some people who make up their own religion, but for many reasons all fail to gain significant ground. (I mean, even if someone tried to spread some kind of new religion nowadays people would most likely call him crazy, or at least not start believing in whatever he is believing).

And then it happens: All the old religions are suddenly reintroduced to the world population. Schools throughout the world still won't teach any religion as fact, but their existence and details are acknowledged, and spread through the education system.

 

So, the question is this: Do you think any religion would be able to regain its lost ground after this complete blackout, and if so, which?



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I went to a Christian middle high school where we had Religious Practices as a course.

I became an atheist partly because of what was taught to me about religion and how stupid/weird events were considered normal only because a religion told them it was.

Religion is still one of the worst things in our society today. I have no idea how society today would be without religion though.



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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

(I mean, even if someone tried to spread some kind of new religion nowadays people would most likely call him crazy, or at least not start believing in whatever he is believing).

Why? Ever hear of L. Ron Hubbard? Shoko Asahara? Barack Obama? People are more gullible than you seem to think.

Religion will always be around because humans are as irrational as they are rational, and faith makes us happy. If you stomped out every religion, new ones would only arise to replace them. People will always find new receptacles for their faith, be it some new god, or the state, or "Science", or whatever.



badgenome said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

(I mean, even if someone tried to spread some kind of new religion nowadays people would most likely call him crazy, or at least not start believing in whatever he is believing).

Why? Ever hear of L. Ron Hubbard? Shoko Asahara? Barack Obama? People are more gullible than you seem to think.

Religion will always be around because humans are as irrational as they are rational, and faith makes us happy. If you stomped out every religion, new ones would only arise to replace them. People will always find new receptacles for their faith, be it some new god, or the state, or "Science", or whatever.

Well, most western countries are becoming less religious as we speak. Those lost believers are not being replaced.



There would still be unanswered questions, and people will still make up stories to explain the unexplained or inexplicable. The religious would become a minority, though.



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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Well, most western countries are becoming less religious as we speak. Those lost believers are not being replaced.

Are they losing faith altogether, or are they merely abandoning their traditional religion and putting their faith in other things? I think it's the latter. Organized atheists are some of the most religious people I've ever met, and for most of the people who shout the loudest about the need for separation between church and state, their church is the state.



badgenome said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Well, most western countries are becoming less religious as we speak. Those lost believers are not being replaced.

Are they losing faith altogether, or are they merely abandoning their traditional religion and putting their faith in other things? I think it's the latter. Organized atheists are some of the most religious people I've ever met, and for most of the people who shout the loudest about the need for separation between church and state, their church is the state.

If we go by polls they are losing faith altogether, so there we have it. Not sure what would indicate that people put their faith in other things.



I agree with the above. I wouldn`t say people are putting their faith in things, it`s worse than that: people are putting their hearts/essence on "things", be that material or immaterial.



IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

If we go by polls they are losing faith altogether, so there we have it. Not sure what would indicate that people put their faith in other things.

You are on a forum in which people work themselves into a froth over which brand of game console is the best, and you really don't see any indication that people are putting their faith in other things?



badgenome said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

If we go by polls they are losing faith altogether, so there we have it. Not sure what would indicate that people put their faith in other things.

You are on a forum in which people work themselves into a froth over which brand of game console is the best, and you really don't see any indication that people are putting their faith in other things?


Console preferences =/= religious beliefs

Just so we are clear.