Posted on 05/09/2016 11:38:52 AM PDT by sparklite2
Is religion about to die out? Growing wealth is causing belief in moralising gods to decline - and it could make it vanish entirely
Dr Baumard said: 'You are clearly at a disadvantage if you follow a slow strategy when others follow a faster strategy - if you are faithful when others grab sexual opportunities, if you forgive when others avenge, if you work when others have fun.
'This disadvantage incentivised the elite to morally condemn fast behaviours, in part by adopting and promoting the new religions that legitimised and reinforced a slow morality and promised punishment for trangressors.
'The same idea [growing wealth] could also explain the gradual decline of moralising religion in wealthier parts of the world such as Western Europe and the northern parts of North America.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
mm hmm...
Except atheists aren’t having children at a rate anywhere near that of religious people
Nope. Can't happen.
Answer: And Islam fills the void.
Religion maybe, Jesus No.
The number of those whose salvation justified in the eyes of God is going to be winnowed down to 144,000
Religion as opposed to faith in our Risen Lord? Maybe that would not be such a bad thing.
There is a Grace Revolution afoot sweeping across God’s people. It’s the real deal, what Jude described when he exhorted the church to “earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
I think we’re going to see a great influx of new believers in the next few decades as religiosity drops and faith in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ascends.
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
- C.S. Lewis
Filthy Lefty’s are salivating at the prospect of Christianity’s decline while ignoring the murderous Pink elephant in the room.
*Looks at population of Muslims*
I’m going to lean in the no direction....
Yeah that slow strategy never works. Warren Buffet was only worth 300 mil when he was 50. This guy should read or reread Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents about the role of delayed gratification.
No, but we’re all going to die: believers and unbelievers. Then we’ll all learn something!
Religion IS dying out...
The Murderous Death Cults of Pedophilia Caravan Raiders and Earth worshiping suicidal narcissists are not... sadly...
The religions of Global Warming and Statism seem to be doing just fine.
Intellectuals have been asserting the imminent demise of religion for at least a century. The demise has always been greatly exaggerated.
Yes, it is about to be replaced by the “Science of the Human Soul or Spirit”
It is time for us to learn about the “Anatomy & Physiology of the Soul” rather than just the theories and philosophies of the soul and how it interacts with its environment. these theories and philosophies are our various religions.
I am not saying that the theories, such as Christianity and the Bible are not correct, they are. When an individual grows spiritually, the soul becomes physical to perception and just like the physical body, the differences of opinion between religions becomes minimal.
Again, I’m not discounting Christianity or the Bible. It is very accurate. But when you perceive the soul as physical, you suddenly understand why Jesus and the Bible teach what they do.
Not Islam.
“you suddenly understand” through direct perception and experience.
Absurd. Article assumes that being religious/irreligious is an inherited trait; e.g. that progeny of religious will be religious and that the progeny of atheists will be atheists. False premise.
More dangerous is the Counterfeit-Christianity that is being touted by the Left.
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