No, we're too stupid, literally, how we organize the world ,our religiosity being part of that but our politics and economy is all wrong.
Humanity seems a dead end species, we're on track to collapse civilisation and long ago lost our ability to live in ecological balance. All species go extinct, ours will.
Religion is the primary reason we’ll never achieve a utopia. I couldn’t fathom participation to drop to zero.
Not totally, no. People will always seek comfort and there will always be no shortage of people eager to exploit them.
No. Religion is too useful as a means of control.
Sadly, no. And it’s probably gonna have a resurgence soon with all the calamity
No. Humans by and large are idiots.
No. We're only months away from watering crops with Brawndo.
Short answer probably not, but I don't think the trend of less religion in public life has maximised yet. Some amount of people are just really geared for religious faith and enjoy that certainty too much to accept things as they are.
Certainty is probably the real enemy in a lot of cases.
The number of religious people will never be zero. Religion is a method to control population by surrendering their free will. Over the very long term, religions do go extinct, or nearly-so. Look at Zoroastrianism, Norse paganism, Egyptian panopoly, the ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian city-god cults.
They fall apart and lose adherents when their political backing collapses. In some cases, they get replaced by more wide-ranging systems, like how Chrisitanity displaced the older, more esoteric Norse religions. Norse mythology sort of makes sense in cold, forested, sparesly populated Scandinavia, but as those cultures learned more about the rest of the planet, the stories of trolls, giants, gods and monsters as an excuse for banditry and raiding starts to look silly when you see the wider world.
Convesion and Displacement, but generally because The Leader of these societies decided at some point through genuine faith, political convenience, their wife's faith or just pragmatic cynicism that it was a good idea to move in a different direction. Hence, religion is a matter of political, economic and moral control. That's never going to go completely out of style, as there's always going to be bastards who want to use superstition to control people.
Ask Cartman if he ever got his Nintendo Wii.
Not until we have secular rituals around death, birth, and union, at least.
We should. It's killing us all. If critical thinking and intellectual honesty catch on (and people recognize that defending the truth is akin to defending life itself), the average person will not accept claims without sufficient evidence.
I think humanity needs to mature or it will go extinct, and not enough people are acknowledging this.
There will be as long as there are narcissists and megalomaniacs sharing the world with ignorant lazy people.
I mean, technically yes when we go extinct, as it's hard to have religious belief when you're dead; but until then... no, certainly not. Human brains simply rely on heuristics too much for people to shake pseudoscientific thinking that leads to spirituality (even without organized religion).
I'm hopefully at least the number of people not believing in organized religion goes down, though. That's the current trend, even if it's just people answering "none".
I hope they do..but it will take eons.. we have people still believing nonsense from centuries ago despite evidence.
Every new brian is a blank slate and gets contaminated but the stupidity of it's peers.
No I think we'd go extinct before that would ever happen. A few countries religion is trending down slightly (China is the atheist outlier along with a few other nations in the link provided) yes, but globally it's still ~75% theist humans. edit: 10% less than I remembered it being.
https://ourworldindata.org/religion
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