Current Events > Do you think Christianity will last the century?

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At the rate it's declining now, seems likely.

Most people these days only pretend to be religious so they can fit in with their friends who pretend to be religious.
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Not in its current form.
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protestants most likely yes, catholic unsure since just need to weed out corruption

Not on the sort of scale or it is used to unless it substantially adapts. Younger people largely have no time for its homophobia or judgmental ways. Society has progressed and the religion hasn't.

ArchiePeck posted...

Not on the sort of scale or it is used to unless it substantially adapts. Younger people largely have no time for its homophobia or judgmental ways. Society has progressed and the religion hasn't.

Kinda funny that people say the current generation has progressed morally when they have resorted to violence for having a differing opinion, I feel it has gone down hill after late 60s (we lost a good voice of reason when Martin Luther King Jr died cause many people today could of learned of reason and compassion from him), there was vietnam, a lot of other crap that came after it

Definitely, but it'll probably change quite a bit. Even in the last couple decades, it's become more of a ceremonial and cultural thing than a religious things.

Yes, although I could see it declining significantly.
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MeowMix101 posted...

ArchiePeck posted...

Not on the sort of scale or it is used to unless it substantially adapts. Younger people largely have no time for its homophobia or judgmental ways. Society has progressed and the religion hasn't.

Kinda funny that people say the current generation has progressed morally when they have resorted to violence for having a differing opinion, I feel it has gone down hill after late 60s (we lost a good voice of reason when Martin Luther King Jr died cause many people today could of learned of reason and compassion from him), there was vietnam, a lot of other crap that came after it

As bad as thing get now, they don't really compare to some of the shit from earlier eras. Violence for a different of opinion was literally the law during some past eras.

Yes.
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hope not
hope islam GTFO as well
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One can hope not
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Sure, it's lasted this long hasn't it?

Christianity will be in trouble when those tacky mega-churches start shutting down - as long as there's a big enough crowd to keep those monstrosities open for business, then the religion is still kicking.
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It's been around for two thousand years. What makes you think the largest religion in the world is suddenly going to disappear in less than a hundred years?
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truthfully Christianity has survived worse times the massive amount dead Christians via communism, the Armenian genocide, the dark ages, Catholics vs Protestants back in forth fighting

MeowMix101 posted...

the dark ages, Catholics vs Protestants back in forth fighting

Uhhh ... both of those were going to result in the continuation of Christianity regardless of how it turned out.

It's been around for two thousand years, and what finally does it in is a bunch of fat virgins on the internet. Seems likely.
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Christianity isn't going anywhere, at least not for a long while. It's too widespread and a lot of people rely on it to deal with the fear of death.
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I don't think humanity will last the century.
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Dash_Harber posted...

MeowMix101 posted...

the dark ages, Catholics vs Protestants back in forth fighting

Uhhh ... both of those were going to result in the continuation of Christianity regardless of how it turned out.

still is thinning the numbers

As i said in other topic, atheism is the fastest growing option for religion in Australia. I think it was 30.1% or 38% (can't remember which) in the 2016 Census.
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Religion has gone downhill.

I shouldn't have to say more than that.
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It's already declining in many western countries. I doubt it will disappear, but very likely will become even less irrelevant in certain countries.

Don't see it changing at all in places like America though tbh.
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yeah. at least a thousand more years
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There are more Christians in the world right now than at any other point in history lol

Will it become less important in the West than it already is? Perhaps. But there is a long history of religious revivals in the West, where Christian belief recurs after remaining dormant. Maybe that will happen again, maybe it won't.

But the religion is absolutely booming in Africa and China right now, and is set to add hundreds of millions more.

It better, since the absence of any religion often results in progressive millennials, the most hateful, selfish, and immoral creatures ever to crawl the United States.

christianity alone is still like a trillion dollar industry. over 80% of the worlds population is affiliated with one religion or another.

maybe we can make some huge scientific breakthroughs or something this century that will lower those numbers significantly.

also younger generations will hopefully be less attached to their faith as we progress (in most countries at least)

i am not anti-religion or even a full-on atheist, i just see a lot of terrible things done in this world for religion.
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Yes.

Even if I were an atheist, I'd anticipate the religion easily lasting into the next century. Many times in history, people have claimed that this would be the generation that people abandon their need for faith and embrace scientific reasoning and possibly secular humanism as well. And people remain religious.

Asking when religion is going to die out is like asking when opposing views will die out. When will people stop being conservative? When will people stop fighting each other? When will people stop embracing nature in favor of technology? The answer to that is, of course, never.

Considering that this is the time where society needs it the most based on the crazy shit that's spreading now, it's not going anywhere.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Christianity isn't going anywhere, at least not for a long while. It's too widespread and a lot of people rely on it to deal with the fear of death.

Rely on it to deal with fear of death? What? LOL
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Protestantism will adapt eventually (can't speak for Catholicism since I'm not one). Methodists have had openly gay pastors for several years. It'll be a slow, mostly unspoken and largely generational transition wherein most of the Christian body becomes more accepting of homosexuality, and the rest realizes that the fight against it is a poor hill upon which to die.

It's far from a perfect comparison, but I think there's a lot of similarities to how the church fought against rock music initially and then accpected it. Nowadays most churches gleefully embrace rock music and build their worship hymns around it.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Christianity isn't going anywhere, at least not for a long while. It's too widespread and a lot of people rely on it to deal with the fear of death.

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as long people still used the A.D calendar dating, Christianity will never be gone.
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Vicious_Dios posted...

Considering that this is the time where society needs it the most based on the crazy shit that's spreading now, it's not going anywhere.

this tbqh
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omega cookie posted...

It's been around for two thousand years, and what finally does it in is a bunch of fat virgins on the internet. Seems likely.

Lol. But seriously. Its pretty unrealistically optimistic to think one generation is going to change the oldest and biggest religion on earth to irrelevancy.
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MeowMix101 posted...

Kinda funny that people say the current generation has progressed morally when they have resorted to violence for having a differing opinion

This has always happened, much moreso in the past.
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ArchiePeck posted...

Not on the sort of scale or it is used to unless it substantially adapts. Younger people largely have no time for its homophobia or judgmental ways. Society has progressed and the religion hasn't.

Agreed. Religions values are largely incompatible with a modern society.
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joestarrr posted...

ArchiePeck posted...

Not on the sort of scale or it is used to unless it substantially adapts. Younger people largely have no time for its homophobia or judgmental ways. Society has progressed and the religion hasn't.

Agreed. Religions values are largely incompatible with a modern society.

idk i mean helping the sick and the poor and living a modest productive life seem like great values to encourage in a modern society

and judaism, christianity, and islam all support those values

did you mean that some religious people's values are incompatible with non-religious people's values and that we need democracy to figure out what most of the people want?
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Christianity will only fully die if this planet explodes.

I don't think religion will survive outside of Earth though, assuming we ever go to other planets.
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Definitely. Islam even likelier to stay around though.

Vindris_SNH posted...

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Christianity isn't going anywhere, at least not for a long while. It's too widespread and a lot of people rely on it to deal with the fear of death.

Rely on it to deal with fear of death? What? LOL

Study it or at least talk seriously to someone who was raised that way. Christianity focuses a lot on rewards for the saved and punishments for sinners, all of which supposedly happens after you die. Entering the Kingdom of God or being denied access to it is a massive part of Christianity and is based on the premise of everlasting life being the end goal of judgment by the religions namesake who supposedly came back to life after death.
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