Have you ever wondered about that (refer to title)? Do you ever think about the mountain of dead gods who are no longer worshiped? Or maybe what the last believer is thinking as he dies? To know that a whole religion, a whole ideology, will die with you...if nothing else, your life is historically important. How does one kill a religion? With sceptisism or murder? Will my religion ever die? It's lasted a while but it would be close minded to shut out the idea that the god I worship may one day be held in the same esteem as Zeus.
If that's the case does that mean the god I worship would be any less real? How do I know the Greeks didn't have it right and all the gods are just chilling right now? Does the apparent evolution of religion point towards the falseness of all religion? Or maybe it points out the falseness of all other religions except of course the truth, (insert your religion here). Or maybe the true religion is something we are approaching but not at. As our religions evolve, they will become the "true" one. But unless God (or the gods) tell us, how are we to ever know? Sorry that all my sentences seem to be questions but I find the concept of a religion dying fascinating.
Glad there are thinkers like you in the world. I suppose we're looking for the limit as t (time) goes to infinity of the religion function, eh?
ReplyDeleteIt seems implausible to think that Christianity could ever die with so many billions believing in it, but then I'm sure the Greeks thought their civilization was pretty enormous, too.
Unfortunately, your idea is invalid that God would be held in the same esteem as Zeus as Zeus was never a God to start with. Something that is made by Humans a deity only lives as long as the love and the need for that deity lives. Such gods or god are the useless gods, they can't hear, they can't listen, and they can't even take care of themselves.
ReplyDeleteThen we have an Omnipotent, The Supreme, the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden, The "Truth", The Disposer, The Nourisher, The Provider ... there are 99 attributes as mentioned in Quran, Islam. It is the same God that was the God of Israel, and that of Abraham, and that of Joseph, Jonah, Jacob, and that of Noah, and Adam and Eve. It had always been one religion since the inception but people ignorance, their desires, their materialistic love of life served as catalyst to their disbelief and there they founded a new religion, a need for an intercession through figurines denoted as god but then one was not enough and humans needed more, one god of mine and one god of your. The rich man's god and the poor man's god. Which god overtook other god is not hard to tell.
Before it gets too long :), Truth doesn't die but it is the people
Jonah Muslim