| badgenome said: I'm saying that, if you're interpreting the decline of Christianity in western society as an indicator that we've evolved past our need for religion, we clearly haven't. So, even if you were to successfully eradicate every existing religion, I don't see any reason why the old ones wouldn't eventually come back or new ones wouldn't arise in the post-oppression era. I do think that you are too narrowly defining religion, but I don't think that hardcore fans are necessarily religious about their brand of choice. But if you were around here during the days of johnlucas and MikeB, you'd have seen that they certainly can be. |
Problem with religion is that they offer "answers" to question that can't be scientifically proven. No one knows what will happen when we die and we can't rely on personal testimony of people that have near death experience. I actually had a near death experience in one of my dreams and I was floating above my body. So there will always be religion until humans get over the fear of death. Fear is the biggest ally of religion.
