Is Religion Evolving? (evolve, America, experience, atheist, faith)

[Lightkeeper]

Is religion evolving? Do you think we will always have religion in some form?

[chuck010342]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

Is religion evolving? Do you think we will always have religion in some form?

define religion

[No*s]

Will religion always bee here? Yes.

[Jayhawker Soule]

In an earlier thread I wrrote:

Yi-Fu Tuan, in an article titled "Humanistic Geography" appearing in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 66, No. 2: 266-276, defines religion as

the impulse for cohesion and meaning.

There is no requirement that meaning come from superstition rather than science and, therefore, no barrier to a religious humanism predicated upon methodological naturalism.

Religion, so defined, is a defining trait.

[chuck010342]

Some religions do some don't. After the second coming of Christ religion will cease to be.

[jewscout]

I think most faiths will "evolve" in order to fit new realities.

[robtex]

Maybe it is more accurate to say it is revolving. The more I read about religious theory (including atheist theory on religion) the more I see themes reappear over and over again particularlly in metaphysics and paradigns of humanities existance.

It is like a chess game that never hits checkmate over and over and over century after century with the only proven theory that mankinds knowlege of his own existance is not absolute and our curosity as a race can never be satisfied because it cannot seem to be obtained.

It affirms to me that maybe in our lifetime at least the closet we can get to any God is knowing how to formulate the questions and maybe the search for those answers is more important at this time than the attainment of them because to search for them is to experience them and to just have them is to be aquianted with them.