20 40 or even 60 years from now?

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11 years 1 week ago #98674 by
20+ years from now what will the traditionals established religions be like if the trend away from them continues and will people continue to abandon religion?

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11 years 1 week ago #98681 by steamboat28
This question is hard to answer, because it doesn't specify what constitutes a "traditional religion", and assumes a statistical trend away from religion. It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that while the absolute number of nonreligious individuals is on the rise, their percentage among the world's population is on the decline, which would seemingly indicate a trend toward religion. Furthermore, it assumes that religions will change based solely on the number of adherents, which is something that doesn't hold a lot of historical plausibility, and is relatively hard to measure statistically.
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11 years 1 week ago #98699 by Whyte Horse
In 20 years the baby boomers will all be mostly dead. In 40 years my generation will all be mostly dead-ish. In 60 years the next gen will be deadish. Since people usually keep their religion for life, you can expect the numbers to fall accordingly.

Strangely, the Amish keep increasing their numbers and have large birth rates so you can bet they'll be around in 60 years.

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11 years 1 week ago - 11 years 1 week ago #98761 by

steamboat28 wrote: This question is hard to answer, because it doesn't specify what constitutes a "traditional religion", and assumes a statistical trend away from religion. It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that while the absolute number of nonreligious individuals is on the rise, their percentage among the world's population is on the decline, which would seemingly indicate a trend toward religion. Furthermore, it assumes that religions will change based solely on the number of adherents, which is something that doesn't hold a lot of historical plausibility, and is relatively hard to measure statistically.


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11 years 1 week ago #98765 by Wescli Wardest
To quote Yoda, “Difficult to see, always in motion is the future.”


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Sorry, I couldn't help it! :P

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11 years 1 week ago #99070 by

Wescli Wardest wrote: To quote Yoda, “Difficult to see, always in motion is the future.”

Sorry, I couldn't help it! :P


Haha! That's what I should have said :D Seriously though, I'm not worried about the future. The Now itself is more than I can handle sometimes.

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11 years 1 week ago #99079 by

Whyte Horse wrote: In 20 years the baby boomers will all be mostly dead. In 40 years my generation will all be mostly dead-ish. In 60 years the next gen will be deadish. Since people usually keep their religion for life, you can expect the numbers to fall accordingly.

Strangely, the Amish keep increasing their numbers and have large birth rates so you can bet they'll be around in 60 years.


Will religion fade away with each generation?

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11 years 1 week ago #99081 by
i think that, if you examine the statistics, it already has, especially in australia and the UK.

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11 years 1 week ago #99084 by

Desolous wrote: i think that, if you examine the statistics, it already has, especially in australia and the UK.


So what do you think will happenin these societies?

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11 years 5 days ago #99441 by

Streen wrote:

Wescli Wardest wrote: To quote Yoda, “Difficult to see, always in motion is the future.”

Sorry, I couldn't help it! :P


Haha! That's what I should have said :D Seriously though, I'm not worried about the future. The Now itself is more than I can handle sometimes.

All time is NOW.

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