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The Next Stage in Our (Religious) Evolution

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Teapots&unicorns
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09-11-2009 8:21 PM

As religion is ever-evolving (much like nature), where do you think that we will be in a few million years- if we survive that long? Do you think any religous texts will have survived or will they have been utterly forgetten or changed irrevocably (like Dune's Orange Catholic Bible). Will there be a "new Christianity"- as in a new huge religion? As new ideas spring up, will we do without, preserve the old, or create the new? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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Teapots&unicorns
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09-12-2009 11:45 AM 		Reply to: Message 3 by ochaye
09-12-2009 9:53 AM

Hi ochaye
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Nature's evolution is imperceptible to ordinary observation. Fundamentalists can deny its occurrence for that reason. One can say the same thing of religions, most religions, without the ridicule that fundamentalists inevitably attract. That is because religions, on the whole, do not evolve. Good religion and evolution are incompatible. A religion that is seen to change with its environment is seen as unprincipled; 'evolving religion' is a contradiction in terms.
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Sorry about that ochaye: "evolution" was an unfortunate choice of words. Yes, you are right in that I meant it in the context of catholic -> protestant -> mormon, etc. What I was asking was, in a couple millenia, will anything be the same or will it be changed beyond all recognition? For example, will we have new sects/religions, and what could they be like? Just in the past 2000 years, Christianity and Islam have been born and Hinduism and Buddhism have spread to the West- not to mention scientology!
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Why would they not survive, assuming that there is no totalitarian world government that destroys every last copy of a text or texts? If one means to ask if people will cease to believe in texts, is there any present and significant trend in that direction? Religious texts continue to have consequences in many ways, in politics, in legal matters, in health matters, in practical everyday events. Admittedly, some of these consequences may seem mind-bogglingly inappropriate to those who do not share confidence in a particular text, but the fact is that scriptures of one sort or another are taken as seriously as ever, and still by a majority, outside China, anyway.
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Ah, but remember that I was talking about millenia. It's only been about a thousand years since Christianity has really been on the world stage, whereas it's been even shorter for Islam. If you want an example of what I'm talking about, look at Judaism- it's 6,000 years old and yet only makes up 3% of the world's population. Hinduism is a subversion of this though- it's a little older than Judaism yet makes up about 20% of the world's population.
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Thanks for your response!
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Edited by Teapots&unicorns, : Grammar
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Teapots&unicorns
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09-12-2009 2:24 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by ochaye
09-12-2009 1:58 PM

Re: what would religious evolution look like
Ochaye, just for some background, what religion are you?
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