Fit-Satisfaction7831 t1_iybh6tl wrote
Pretty funny how all these religions are ultimately going to be a very, very brief paragraph in the history of humanity; most won't even last as long as pyramids.
joaquinqro t1_iybm8in wrote
Bold to assume humanity has a long way ahead.
russdb t1_iybs0gg wrote
Venus 2.0, that is our future.
predaking50ae t1_iybzsox wrote
Hot.
Card_Zero t1_iycf7y0 wrote
I don't know, that involves all the water boiling off. Surely there'd be a Carboniferous 2.0 before that could happen, with swamp forests everywhere.
samus12345 t1_iyf2lfa wrote
The fire of our desire.
Paintingmyfreedom t1_iycp54y wrote
The future of humanity is living underground in tunnels like rats, not in the stars
chadenright t1_iybp9uo wrote
Yeah, we'll be lucky if we don't have a Bronze Age Collapse within a century or so. Eight billion people in an environment of widespread climate change, resource wars leading to the collapse of the global food supply and a return to waves of famine refugees in the hundreds of millions...the war in Ukraine is just the start. Things are going to get ugly.
And hey, maybe when things get really bad we can rely on fortified outposts of insane religious zealots to preserve our most important art, literature and scientific advancements. Maybe even a couple copies of wikipedia.
Areat t1_iyc117u wrote
Are we so sure it's the fall of religion in general and not just Christianity? Would be interesting to see the stats of under 25 years old. Correct me if I'm wrong, but atheism is still mainly a white thing. Not only, but mainly. And last year census had white pupils only being 28% of the total in London.
PM-ME-PMS-OF-THE-PM t1_iyc9pyz wrote
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but atheism is still mainly a white thing.
I feel like it's more of a Western thing than a colour of skin thing. Religion seems to thrive in poverty and become gradually less and less prevalent the higher standards of living become.
philman132 t1_iycebml wrote
The largest majority atheist country on earth is China, who are usually not considered white
Areat t1_iycys13 wrote
State enforced atheism mean nothing. Ex USSR countries reverted hard to orthodox christianity and islam once it fell.
Gotisdabest t1_iycc3qn wrote
Atheism is mostly a thing of the rich and well educated. Due to a long series of socioeconomic factors, those happen to mostly be white people. As we see massive growth in third world economies their religions too, will drop very quickly.
TheElusiveEllie t1_iycsn12 wrote
I read their comment differently. There may or may not always be religion, but each of these INDIVIDUAL religions will die out tens of thousands of years from now, for one reason or another. The ancient religions of the past are dead, so too will be the current religions, and one day the religions of the distant future will die out as well.
magicsheepcreations t1_iyc22ar wrote
The stats did show a rise in belief in other religions but the news report lumped stuff together and talked about a rise in numbers rather than percentages. Felt like the typical racist reporting with skewed data so harder to get a fair idea
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ygofukov t1_iybkh75 wrote
You think? Religions like Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses are less than 200 years old. Scientology is less than a century old. Moonies are about the same. Same with Unitarian Universalism.
I feel like there is always going to be some group who founds them/attends them/sticks with them.
aTalkingDonkey t1_iyc4vjw wrote
well no.
"civilisation" has been around for about 10,000 years. christianity has existed for 2000, jusasim 3500.
remote "uncivilised" cultures such as indigenous australians have had their religion for more than 30,000 years.
Our global society will collapse eventually - it has to. and from there new religions will pop up.
Foundation12a t1_iycansz wrote
Global society doesn't collapse without human extinction at this stage. Tech has come too far.
aTalkingDonkey t1_iycloro wrote
No. Tech only exists while people are able to afford it.
As soon as it becomes unaffordable, it becomes rare. Imagine if the next 5-7 generations of phone are 7k each, it would only take 10 years for smart phones to become like yachts.
Foundation12a t1_iycpmuk wrote
Except that will never happen due to mass proliferation of the technology, there are already billions of phones and a phone that costs a 1/10th of a flagship 5 years ago already outperforms it in all metrics.
Your given scenario is therefore impossible, any company that charges that much for a phone when there are literally thousands of alternatives will go bankrupt and it's customers will buy elsewhere.
tootoohi1 t1_iyc4fgo wrote
This is such an anti-intellectual take. Yeah I'm sure in humanity's future they'll look back to when they pulled themselves from living in caves to organizing with philosophy and the 2nd biggest literacy increase in populations besides industrialization and think it was dumb and not important.
Redditors with the least amount of knowledge of history/ religion will say ignorant things like this in a news sub and get the updoots straight to the top because you owned the dumb Christians.
Fit-Satisfaction7831 t1_iyc5hdb wrote
You attribute philosophy and literacy to religion, but these concepts predate today's religions by hundreds-to-thousands of years. The religions that were around during their inception are already a very, very brief paragraph in the history of humanity.
Paintingmyfreedom t1_iycpau9 wrote
Its almost as if literacy existing can be divorced from literacy rates.
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