Didn't humans made up a concept of religion and gods due to their lack of knowledge?

Question

Due to this I believe that religion will die off within next 1000 years , and it will be looked back as just a period in a human evolution. Anyone else agree with me ?

Answer 1

no, i don't agree with you Ben...spirituality is very important for human beings, i think you may change your mind in much less years :-)

Answer 2

Yes, humans are not only very curious critters, they are also control freaks.  Any happening beyond their control or the control of one of their leaders had to be controlled by some super natural being.  Because leaders obviously could not control the weather related events & they could not understand the conditions that led to these events, they had to attribute these to some God or Gods.  Random events were something they could not understand or accept & their eventual death was unacceptable as an end to their existance.

Because humans are explaining more of  previous mysteries,  religion will probably diminish to some degree, but we will always have those that refuse to accept science as an answer.  Scientists must learn to explain their answers in more easily understood terms, or increase our ability to educate those advocating the supernatural as an explaination for what they cannot understand.

Answer 3

Yes, religion was the attempt of primitive man to understand nature.  But no, religion will not die out.  Many people (most?) don't have the ability to grasp the complexities of scientific theory, from evolution to astronomy--forget about quantum mechanics.  These people will always be a large minority or even majority, and will always seek refuge in religion.

Answer 4

OK, I'm gonna tell you what you want to hear!!!!

Yeah people created religion, God doesn't exist and yes in 1000 years we will see pigs really do fly!

Answer 5

No, I do not agree. I don't think mere humans could have written some of the parables in the bible. It took a divine hand to write.

Answer 6

Well as human beings we have to realize a few things.  We don't know things 100% right and exact.  Major proof is to be needed into to do so which we don't have/use.  So instead of trying to find the truth (simply because most of the time we don't even get close to the truth) we begin a commonly known process which is called belief.  Belief is the thought or idea of something that has not been proven, but seems realistic or logical.  

I believe that religion will never die out simply because everybody has a religion, whether you know it or not.  Some people believe that lifestyle and religion is totally different aspects, which was proven to be false.   The lifestyle of drugs, and you are either worshipped by addicts or you are the addict worshipping the dealer/drug.  Religion is based off of what you worship, , lifestyle is your activities and beliefs, howvever, unconscious (not knowing that something is taking place) worship happens during living lifestyles.  If anyone believes that my statement is false please feel free to correct me.  But before you do please show and prove.

Answer 7

NO

Answer 8

No.  Man did not make God, God made man.  And no, there's no evidence that religion will die off.  Take Christianity (at 2.2 billion adherents, by far the world's largest religion) for example:  Not only has Christianity increased steadily and dramatically in numbers for 2000 years, it is also increasing  steadily as a percentage of the world's population; in other words, more and more of the world is becoming Christian.  

Kinda dumps cold water on your theory, huh?

Answer 9

Where will you be in the next 1,000 years to prove this theory?

I personally believe in God!

I know I do not have a thousand years to waste.

Answer 10

it may have started out as something like that, but in the 2000 years since J.C. i think religion has become something else.

with all the culture shock that's coming with vastly increasing knowledge about ourselves and our universe, i guess it's not a little comforting to believe in God and whatnot.

we'll never know everything (think of the infinity of it all and combine that with the ever-expanding universe and the concept that the more we know, the more we know we don't know) and in that space is where religion is.

not to say i condone religion run amok (i'm pretty sure this is where you're coming from) and all the lousy stuff done in the name of religion, but it does have it's purposes in a sociological way.

Answer 11

Seems that throughout mankind's history they've felt the need to make up gods to explain things they can't explain. So in answer to your question...yes, humans made up religions and gods because of ignorance.

Answer 12

EVERY human culture has SOME form of religion not just Christian, Islam, Buddhist, etc.  Even the most remote groups of people have a belief in a higher power and it goes way before written history. Traditions were passed down from generation to generation before that. So to answer your question...NO I don't believe it will die off as we become even more evolved in our understanding of the universe around us.

Answer 13

No, I don't agree, Evolution in my mind could not have made everything in this world the way it is now. Everything fits together too perfectly, and if there is no god, and as you say a lack of knowledge made us create him, then what makes you think we will have enough knowledge to get rid of him in 1000years when the concept of god has been around since humans could write(and probably before that as well)?

Answer 14

The present or the past after a long time becomes stale as for as knowledge is concerned.As religions are human made constituting certain specific systems of approaches varying from religion to religion they have to definitely fade.But the fact remains that many many things are left unrevealed despite the advancement in science and technology such as birth,life before birth,death,status after death and so.. ............on.Human lacks in knowledge in most of things of Nature.Either humans should be ignorant in total or should have cent percent knowledge of Nature.Then only the concept of religion God will get perfected.

Answer 15

Religion will be around. Its always adapted to new findings and new thought. Too much power to loose if they dont.

Answer 16

I think lack of knowledge (or fear of the unknown) could be a motivating factor.  I believe religion is often used to try to explain the unexplainable.  Science also tries to do the same.

Both are founded on certain assumptions.  One uses logic; the other uses faith.

I do not think either religion or science will die off in 1000 years, as they both benefit society.

However; while there is no way to prove God exists, there is also no way to prove that God does not exist either.

Answer 17

As we explain things using empirical method, superstition will of course become less prevalent.

I think the last I heard, in the U.S., over 90% considered themselves "spiritual", but less than 40%, attended church.

However that was in the U.S..  In Islamic countrys I would think those who attend the Mosque has remained fairly constant.

Judism, have have no knowledge of. Buddisum the same.

Your question ask about 1000 years from now, to answer that more directly. No I do not think relligion as we know it will exist then. I was hoping it's demise, would occure more quickly than that, seeing how it seem to be the major cause of conflict between humans.

After saying all of that I will state that I do believe in a higher intelligence, but am not able to understand or explaine it. To have designed DNA, it must truly be beyond our comprehension.

Answer 18

Primitive man operated at the mental maturity level of a bright 6-year-old. You would have to be familiar with the developmental theories of Freud, Piaget, Erickson and (I forget the rest off hand ) to fully understand what this means as well as the significance of civilization being developed by teenagers.

Because of these developmental stages schizophrenics were considered to be in contact with the spirit world. They were therefore seen as shaman and medicine men. To achieve the same state and commune with the spirit world, normal people had to take haluciation causing drugs. This means a good part of the beginning of religion was based on insanity.