What the world's religious landscape will look like in 2100

[Draka]

I've been avoiding this thread, but I'm assuming you're talking about me here. What I'm wondering is this;
How did you find out about my secret Draka files??

Who do you think has been feeding you your (oh so very accurate) information?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Who do you think has been feeding you your (oh so very accurate) information?

You're a double-agent selling your OWN secrets? Oh my goodness, that is brilliant.
If I had been paying you, you'd be rich by now.

 

[Draka]

You're a double-agent selling your OWN secrets? Oh my goodness, that is brilliant.
If I had been paying you, you'd be rich by now.

Don't worry. I have been getting paid. Someone else is very invested in you getting certain (not falsified whatsoever) information. They are quite adamant that you are fed, I mean provided, with particular info. Why? I don't have a clue and I don't question.

 

[Mackerni]

I think by 2100 with the advent of the Singularity and other marvel technological accomplishments that there would be at least one prominent transhumanist religion that would taken place and influenced society to a future cause ... say 5-10%? I don't think Muslim will grow to 35% by 2100, but I do see them leveling out between 25-30%. Christianity will probably spread, to 40% most likely. Other religions will decline as the western world infiltrates the eastern hemisphere more.

Just a prediction.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think by 2100 with the advent of the Singularity and other marvel technological accomplishments that there would be at least one prominent transhumanist religion that would taken place and influenced society to a future cause ... say 5-10%? I don't think Muslim will grow to 35% by 2100, but I do see them leveling out between 25-30%. Christianity will probably spread, to 40% most likely. Other religions will decline as the western world infiltrates the eastern hemisphere more.

Just a prediction.

I look for both Christianity and Islam to eventually decline. Probably level out at first, and then decline. Eventually people are going to have to realize their lives are so far removed and disconnected from such religious principles that the only honest thing to do would be to abandon them, and pick up views that are less dogmatic and do not revolve around the stories of ancient shepherds.

 

[Mackerni]

I look for both Christianity and Islam to eventually decline. Probably level out at first, and then decline. Eventually people are going to have to realize their lives are so far removed and disconnected from such religious principles that the only honest thing to do would be to abandon them, and pick up views that are less dogmatic and do not revolve around the stories of ancient shepherds.

I don't see this happening, mainly because Christianity is open to a lot of new religious movements that are up to date with the modern world. As a Cosmist I believe that revealed religions as a whole will become extinct in roughly 250 years from now, and secular religions and philosophies will take their place.

 

[psychoslice]

I think by then all religion will be gone, we will realize that we are all one, and we will treat each other as such, after all we are starting to realize that all these stories are just that, stories.

 

[arthra]

I think by 2100 all religions will be one... meaning they will be more in tune with one another and accepting of the Divine origins they have in common. You can see the beginnings of this in the meetings of the World Parliament of Religions as well as more local inter-faith groups. There will be more of a one world..one humanity world consciousness.

 

[McBell]

I think by 2100 all religions will be one... meaning they will be more in tune with one another and accepting of the Divine origins they have in common. You can see the beginnings of this in the meetings of the World Parliament of Religions as well as more local inter-faith groups. There will be more of a one world..one humanity world consciousness.

I think there will still be humans on the planet in year 2100, so I have to disagree

 

[paarsurrey]

I think by then all religion will be gone, we will realize that we are all one, and we will treat each other as such, after all we are starting to realize that all these stories are just that, stories.

Even your "my own religion"?!
Regards

 

[psychoslice]

Even your "my own religion"?!
Regards

Well true religion is within its was never meant to be an organization, which only kills the spirit.

 

[paarsurrey]

I think by 2100 all religions will be one... meaning they will be more in tune with one another and accepting of the Divine origins they have in common. You can see the beginnings of this in the meetings of the World Parliament of Religions as well as more local inter-faith groups. There will be more of a one world..one humanity world consciousness.

I agree with you.
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

What the world's religious landscape will look like in 2100

I cannot say as to what will look like in 2100 exactly to the religions. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1835-1908 did prophesy on a word from G-d the scenario of 2203:

“Harken, all ye people. This is a prophecy of Him Who had created heaven and earth. He will spread this Community of His in all countries and will make it supreme over all, through reason and arguments. The days are coming, indeed they are near, when this will be the only religion which will be held in honour. God will bestow extraordinary blessings on this religion and .Movement. He will frustrate everyone who seeks to destroy it. This supremacy will last till the Judgment Day.
Remember, that no one will descend from heaven. All our opponents who are alive today will die and no one will see Jesus son of Mary descending from heaven. Then their next generation will pass away and no one of them will see this spectacle. Then the generation next after that will pass away without seeing the son of Mary descending from heaven. Then God will make them anxious that though the time of the supremacy of the cross had passed away and the world had undergone great changes, yet the son of Mary had not descended from heaven. Then the wise people will suddenly discard this belief. The third century after today will not yet have come to a close when those who hold this belief, whether Muslims or Christians, will lose all hope and will give up this belief in disgust. There will then be only one religion that will prevail in the world and only one leader. I have come only to sow the seed, which has been sown by my hand. Now it will sprout and grow and flourish and no one can arrest its growth" [Tazkaratush Shadatain,pp. 64-5]. By Mirza Ghualm Ahmad Published in 1903​

Regards

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

You are the hell upon my/our (a lot of other people's) Earth; hell is possible for us on Earth, through other humans, why not in the whole of nature/universe?!... And I imagine that's how easy it is for nature, a simple forgiving "awwh" or condemning "urgh", to send one falling down or rising up, comfortably or uncomfortably.

You seem to put a lot of stock in what other people think/say. This is a shortcoming of yours, I believe. You constantly try to preempt people's replies to your threads by saying they will "not like" what you have to say, or will downplay it, or miss/ignore some grand "wisdom" you seem to feel is always contained within. I would never be caught feeling that someone had made my life "hell on Earth" through some form of communication. As if someone could hold that much sway over me with their words/opinions. Good luck to the person who tries - they'll certainly need it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't see this happening, mainly because Christianity is open to a lot of new religious movements that are up to date with the modern world.

The problem comes from when you actually read the Bible. When you take in all of what it has to say, hardly any of it is congruent with contemporary Western ideals. The principles of the Bible would undo centuries of struggles that have been fought because of principles that were instilled that did come from the Bible. Essentially, the tale of the modern Western is a story of holding onto those ancient stories and having to reconcile that the age of Enlightenment and Civil Rights came about because of Biblical principles. We hold up the Bible in one hand, and strike it down with the other. Eventually, we, as a society, are going to have to realize what's going on and ask what's the point in going on? Eventually we are going to realize it does say it's ok to beat a slave as hard as you want if they survive because the slave is property, that is does say adulterers are to be put to death, that it does say homosexuals are to be put to death, that it does say women are not to be in positions above men, and that our "be yourself" mentality that we have today is not something the Bible condones or supports.

 

[Lyndon]

The problem comes from when you actually read the Bible. When you take in all of what it has to say, hardly any of it is congruent with contemporary Western ideals. The principles of the Bible would undo centuries of struggles that have been fought because of principles that were instilled that did come from the Bible. Essentially, the tale of the modern Western is a story of holding onto those ancient stories and having to reconcile that the age of Enlightenment and Civil Rights came about because of Biblical principles. We hold up the Bible in one hand, and strike it down with the other. Eventually, we, as a society, are going to have to realize what's going on and ask what's the point in going on? Eventually we are going to realize it does say it's ok to beat a slave as hard as you want if they survive because the slave is property, that is does say adulterers are to be put to death, that it does say homosexuals are to be put to death, that it does say women are not to be in positions above men, and that our "be yourself" mentality that we have today is not something the Bible condones or supports.

Rather you like to pick and chose small passages in the Bible that are not congruent with modern Western life, and ignore the vast wisdom of so much else said in the Bible that is fully applicable to modern society. Any work that was written 2000 years ago is going to have incongruities with modern life, what is amazing is how much is applicable to modern life, not the parts that aren't.

 

[cambridge79]

By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe.
"By the year 2100, about 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent)," the authors wrote.
According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ligious-landscape-will-look-like-in-2050.html
All Theists (Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians, Muslims etc.) and Atheists (all shades of Atheism, Agnosticism, Skepticism, Humanism, New Atheism, Anti-Theism etc.) are welcome to comment.

Regards

such long predictions most of the times fail to hit the nail on the head cause they take into consideration only current trends and can't predict major events. A war, a carismatic figure, a new discovery, a cultural turning point, everything can potentailly change current trends. Maybe in 10 years time a guy discover a quran copy older than muhammad and islam collapses. Maybe they find the tomb with the remains of jesus, christians aknowledge it's a false prophet and everyone becomes a muslim. Maybe oil runs out in middle east and arabic cultures collapses. Who can tell what will happen in 100 years time.

by the way it never ceases to amaze me how you on one hand always blame other muslim that are not part of your small denomination to be bad muslims and false muslim while on the other hand you keep promoting their achievement like if they were achievement of yours.

i think of all the possible religions out there, a world where islam is the big one is the less desirable world you can live in.

 

[cambridge79]

The problem comes from when you actually read the Bible. When you take in all of what it has to say, hardly any of it is congruent with contemporary Western ideals. The principles of the Bible would undo centuries of struggles that have been fought because of principles that were instilled that did come from the Bible. Essentially, the tale of the modern Western is a story of holding onto those ancient stories and having to reconcile that the age of Enlightenment and Civil Rights came about because of Biblical principles. We hold up the Bible in one hand, and strike it down with the other. Eventually, we, as a society, are going to have to realize what's going on and ask what's the point in going on? Eventually we are going to realize it does say it's ok to beat a slave as hard as you want if they survive because the slave is property, that is does say adulterers are to be put to death, that it does say homosexuals are to be put to death, that it does say women are not to be in positions above men, and that our "be yourself" mentality that we have today is not something the Bible condones or supports.

I agree with what you say.
All the western societies are shaped upon illuministic principles and that's what ultimately made them what they're today. Secularism, science, progress, free speech, justice. nothing of this comes from the bible.
Illuminism among the other things was directly and opening challenging religion power.
Therefore you're right and i find it always sad when i hear people ( and i my country you always hear it expecially from politician trying to raise consensus ) that we're a christian nation and we shouldn't let go our christian values
. Actually it was letting go most of our christian values that made us what we're today. People don't realize that if we went full christians once again we would be more or less like saudi arabia but with jesus instead of muhammad. We've been that for centuries and i don't want to fall back being that.
Our brightest minds were put at risk all the times because they were somehow challenging christian power, just like it now happens in saudi arabia or iran.

also people have come out with a way to deal with that cognitive dissonance you're talkin about : they say that "not all the bible is literal and should be taken literally" that part of that is just myth and shouldn't be taken literally. Basically they say they're cherry picking what they like and letting go the rest, they just don't realize what they're actually doing.
Because, you know, that part about beating your slave you talking about, i know it, that's in exodus. Is god speaking with his own voice. It's exactly after the ten commandments. Therefore you can't simply dismiss it unless you're ready to dismiss the whole ten commandments, in wich case the whole exodus become pointless in wich case you better pick a different religion if you want one. Yet people completely ignores it. Why? because they never read in churches about how you should treat your slaves, and people never read the bible on their own at home, despite what they claim. And that's why ultimately, atheists claim that to become an atheist you simply have to read the bible.

 

[paarsurrey]

@ cambridge79 and others
Please note that there was a mistake in my post #93, the scenario is of 2203.
Regards

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Rather you like to pick and chose small passages in the Bible that are not congruent with modern Western life,

Western culture today is very much "do what you want," and "be true to yourself." The Bible does not support this. And if you read, I said most - not all - of the Bible does not support, condone, or endorse contemporary Western values. The ones we cherish the most, such as freedom of religion, free speech, and free association, are not supported or condoned by the Bible. We don't view people as property, we have made strides towards moving away from the mentality that a woman shall not be in a position above a man, we value sexual relations, and we value finding our own way in life. Refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding gets social and political backlash, to suggest we put homosexuals to death - as the Bible commands - would be political suicide, entirely fringe, and something that very few people would take seriously. The Bible also says no tattoos and it frowns upon piercings, but having grown up during the MTV and Nine Inch Nails generation, we've moved towards them being a strong social "no" towards them being an acceptable gesture of rebellion.
And when it comes to things that are specifically Christian, we value greed and material wealth and acquisition, we do not practice peace, patients, and forgiveness, we aren't good at taking care of the poor and we even have criminalized it in many cases (both being poor and taking care of the poor), and instead of loving our neighbors we are constantly competing against them in such ways that we have to look out for ourselves, instead of each other. And tolerance and acceptance is rarely practiced, and many Christians have no qualms in bearing false witness/testimony against someone who falls outside of the norms. Christians also have a tendency of failing to be honest with things they don't understand, such as Dungeons and Dragons, Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Harry Potter, heavy metal, and plenty of other things.

Therefore you can't simply dismiss it unless you're ready to dismiss the whole ten commandments, in wich case the whole exodus become pointless in wich case you better pick a different religion if you want one.

Since you bring up the 10, the stigmas attached to "adultery" are lessening, we don't follow the Sabbath, keep it holy, or even know when it is, we are legally protected against "no other gods before me" and "graven images" and "taking the lord's name in vein," coveting is something that drives our economy. Things like lying, killing, and stealing are a given and you shouldn't have to be told to not do those things. We are more ok with saying parents must earn the privilege of being honored rather than this idea of mandated honor.