It seems to me that (in the west at least) Gen Y (millennials) and Gen Z have replaced religion with pop entertainment. This is an interesting phenomenon because they adopted a dogmatic approach to it, in which whatever criticism directed towards it is dismissed by blaming the critic.
Do you think future generations will continue this trend or will they turn to religion? Not necessarily current mainstream religions, of course.
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What do you mean? "Fandom"?
Have you seen how those people react when you point out that things made for children are for children? It's the same way a Christian would react if someone put a cross in a tank filled with pee.
You guys have the uncanny ability to generate new strawmen in your head on a whim.
if you consider this, you've already lost
this is observed in India as well, and probably asia too. I think we are just moving towards more of that good ol empiricism and as such we will see more athiests
yes, and dropping birth rates. praise science!
Look, you can't put the genie back in the bottle
People figured out some guy walking on water 2000 years ago sounds made-up
Probably depends on the way things go. Remember people turn to God (however they define God- one, many, everything, some impersonal force, or some combination) in times of crisis, hence the famous saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. Like how Christianity flourished as Rome collapsed (inb4 someone says it caused Rome to collapse), or Islam took advantage of the tensions caused by Persia and Byzantium constantly fighting (not to mention the constant tribal warfare found in Arabia itself)
So if we get a period of prosperity the trend you describe will continue.
>Like how Christianity flourished as Rome collapsed
No it didn’t, it flourished when the emperor converted and being Christian became politically expedient.
>I’m a staunch polytheist, praise Mars the father of Rome
>If you want a good job you have to be Christian
>Praise Jesus to hell with those pagan savages
Makes sense since modernity started during the Renaissance, which was a prosperous tim, but you could see the cracks start to show when the materialism got really rampant.
Such as in the 1600s there were movements like Puritanism and Pietism, against materialism (wanting to be more pure and pious)
Obviously didn't work out in the long run, only slowed down the inevitable for a bit.
Because prosperity leads to less religiosity. Think how formerly Puritan New England became the "unchurched belt". It's a cycle.
Gonna make big tiddy game and create big tiddy religion
Sign me up.
Isn't this what Nietzsche stated should be the case? That religion is replaced with culture?
Religions must change with the times in order to survive. What you're seeing right now is a new predator (modernity) breaking into a habitat and slaughtering the all the species (religions) who can't evolve in time. Unfortunately for this apex predator it will soon run out of prey and starve. You cannot build a civilisation out of consumer slop culture, people stop breeding, they become lost without purpose and everything collapses. Eventually a challenger will arrive, one animal that has lain dormant for centuries and with all it's competition gone it will seize the opportunity and dominate planet earth.
Manicheanism???
So, like, you think people are just going to forget about technology and modern ways of thinking?
Butlerian Jihad is the only way
>Not necessarily current mainstream religions, of course.
If true, this must be the second most boring phase in history, religion-wise (after monke era). All the major religions are fizzling out, and no schizo has come up with anything cool yet...
that's just not true on a global scale the only thing that's fizzling out is atheism
The Palmarians came up with the Palmarian Bible and the Spanish papacy.
I mean, the science™ doesn't leave a lot of room for religions to exist.