Living Will Judaism
Don’t people realize organized religion will last forever?
Organized religions like Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism won’t end anytime soon. They will live on for centuries. Maybe even millennia. It’s easy to imagine in this age when atheism is rising that all religions and the idea of God will soon disappear, but atheism has also always existed. In fact, when you look at organized religions, some of them are very old, and some of them are a lot younger than others. Christianity is 2,000 years old, Hinduism is 4,000, Islam is 1,400, and Judaism is 3,000. It’s worth noting that the world’s oldest religion (Hinduism) is also one of the world’s main religions, claiming 18% of the world population. Why do atheists think religion won’t survive? Religion will survive all right. It’s not going away anytime soon.
The reason some atheists say religion will become obsolete in a few more years (could be 100, could be 1000 yrs from now..) is that now we have science.
4000 yrs ago, it was hard to be an atheist, as there wasn’t much of another explanation, or many facts to support you. If an earthquake happened, and you told someone it was plate techtonics you’d be stoned, beaten, and imprisoned. At the time it was believed God formed these types of things.
Today we know that is not the case, and someone who says that God makes thunder, or hurricanes, or earthquakes is seen as a sheltered and ignorant buffoon.
This is the reason that atheism is slowly gaining ground. We can come up with other explanations and do away with the “God of the Gaps.”
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