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As long as there are poor, uneducated populations religion will continue to exist.
Thats what I was getting at. When will we get to the point.....speaking about America....they it will be something of the past. Each generation believes less and less. I really wasn't speaking on terms of other places around the globe.
How will our cultures clash if one day we are a non-believing nation and other nations still have strong beliefs? It could get ugly
it's been ugly
speaking solely of America, we will never reach that point. Christianity is ingrained in too many, and believers will continue passing it on.
plus we have the diversity aspect. religions from around the world find their way here, the families reproduce, their children follow, etc. then the fact that you can just make up your own religion (Jedis, Kopimism) and run with it. religion has existed in all of recorded history and as long as humanity does not have a complete grasp of our universe, or even our own planet, there will be people who cannot accept the scientific answers for certain questions.
religion is faith without understanding and evidence, science is essentially faith based on CURRENT evidence and known laws as we currently understand them. science can change and adapt at any given time. religion, not so much. I feel like if more religious people would embrace learning and not take what they read or hear from their pastor/preacher/rabbi/whoever else, we could be in a much better place even with all religions coexisting.
my 4 year old daughter got me to throw away a book her grandmother gave her about God and creation for younger people because, in her words, "it's stupid, and snakes can't talk". while I know that that story is supposedly a fable, some people take it as fact. we need less of that.
are there any non-believers turned believers reading this thread?