Is Religion slowly dying?

Yes. Sa panahon ngayon masyado ng matatalino ang mga tao. May kanya kanya ng konklusyon.

religion never dies.. when its praying to god for one group its business for another group and its politics for another.. religion is one of the key substance of the existence of everything in the world

IT's not. Islam is spreading, people are converting to Judaism or seeking enlightenment in the Eastern religions or investing in practices that make them feel 'spiritual.' In the West, they tried to eliminate G-d from the equation in order to encourage a culture of permissiveness without the the restrictions of accountability to a higher power. The problem with this approach is that everything then becomes meaningless, as people will eventually grow old, thereby being unable to enjoy things as much as they could in their youth, and then losing everything in death (if you don't believe in G-d, then how can there be a next world? Likewise, how can there be a soul to be reincarnated?). Eventually many people became disillusioned with this approach and started exploring religions in order to find some meaning to their lies. Rather than religion dying, the West is slowly dying with population decline, while it is slowly being overtaken by Muslim population, who have far more children than the average Western couple (see Europe). Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_religion

I think so. Nowadays you can meet more atheists than people with religion.

For me, religion is immortal as long as there is a person who would remain faithful on what he/she believes. No one can kills or eliminate religions, people live on the beliefs and will continue with this until the very next generation. Religions can only be eliminated once people totally extincted from this world.

Quote from: pozmu on May 09, 2017, 04:13:46 PM

Yes it is.
Something like Buddhism/ scientology has a chance to become world's leading "religion".
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i'd say atheist is another religion. Religion changes our perception about life and death. If atheists believe that there are no Gods, that is their perception in life. Which validates the idea that atheism is another religion.

A birth of another religion is not the death of religion. Thus, it is the making of a new and diversified collection of religions.

I think religion is sill very strong, although I think more and more people are practicing in their own home and not going to church. Everyone is so afraid of offending someone that they don't talk about it.

Quote from: Celine Ariola on January 29, 2018, 01:50:11 PM

Quote from: pozmu on May 09, 2017, 04:13:46 PM

Yes it is.
Something like Buddhism/ scientology has a chance to become world's leading "religion".

That's not the definition of a religion. Atheism is not a religion nor a belief. It is in fact a non-belief if you wanna call it that. It's basically the absence of belief in any deity.

Unfortunately this is the case, there are many mafias and hidden stories that have emerged during the last years about the church, its cures, and with the world evolving, there are more theories that favor the theory that nothing related to the Bible and that it is only a conspiracy to control people ... Likewise, so many religions have arisen in the world that it is difficult to differentiate some from others, millennials, especially those who have lost their faith as a result of the movement of the world, of the actions of people.

In my personal opinion, I believe that in these days the religion is dying slowly. Because people are more selfish most of them just think about themselves and try to down others for their own benefits. They cheat each other and make fake promises which are against the rule of religion. On other hands mostly people use religion for their personal profits. They don't care about what is right or wrong the only thing that matters to them is just there own self so because of that the religion is dying slowly.

Religion will always be around the corner because a lot of people rely on faith for their future because they believe that when then preach to God all of their woes will vanish into thin air.

No, when you think about religion, usa still has a heavy religion fanaticism and since islamic population is still growing, so its hardly dying.

Quote from: chatime27 on January 31, 2018, 10:54:02 AM

No, more people and more people are believing that GOD is coming near.

Not really, a few hundred years ago, virtually everyone believed in some sort of god or deity because, well, they didn't know better. They didn't have the knowledge or tools we have today so they had to believe in something to make up for it. Whether it was the Christian god or just random gods that all tribes had.

I think that, as people are faced less with death and illness, they turn away from religion. Today many happily live until a very old age. There is just less need for the kind of comfort that religion provides us with.

I believe so as this generation mind is a little more open minded compare to previous generation .

Islam is keeping going to europe and it has no trend to stop, its hard to think it will stop soon.

Religion is in no way slowly dying. What faces me might be backing you, meaning it all depends on the angle to which anyone perceived it and the society where they exist. Recently, I even perceived Islamic and Christianity religion to be unanimously increasing in membership, when people are seeing the beauty of coming closer to God, that nothing can adequately be done or achieved without Almighty God's consent. However, laziness of religion practice makes some people shift base to probably doing nothing, saying they still believe in God, while some even gallantly refused to practice none when they feel what they are requesting for from God is not granted.

I think in these days religion dying more fastly everybody makes fake promises and tries to hurt others and don't care about anyone. In nowadays money is everything for them they can do anything for money and don't care about the rules and conditions of the religion. For people's a person with a good heart is a fool.

Religion absolutely is NOT dying. It is simply changing. No matter how you live your life, the way you live is your religion. Don't believe me? Look up the definition of "religion" in several dictionaries. This will show you that all people have religion, and that how they live is their religion.

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Quote from: BADecker on January 31, 2018, 06:14:02 PM

''It may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophesies, ethics, or organizations, that relate humanity to the supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual.''

If you live your life not believing in any supernatural, spiritual or transcendental then that's not a religion.