Pondering this today: if every Bible and religious material in any/every format and language were to suddenly poof into instant ashes and nothingness, would the religious and all world religions fall apart since those materials are their 'weapons'?
And while memory may be good, nobody is going to remember every word of any of these books. How long before organized religion implodes under these circumstances and fades?
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Nope, people will piece it together and even if it’s diffent they will worship it. It’s been an evolution anyway, if I may be so bold as to use that word.
ArdentAtheist
Level 8
Dec 23, 2018
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Religion doesn’t come from books. It comes from people; the same place all books come from. Do away with all books and they just reemerge, in some form, from people again, and all proceeds as usual. Might take it a minute to get organized again, but it would not fade. There are enough people who have memorized parts of the books that, collectively, through the internet, they’d have it reconstructed in no time. And even if their memories were wiped clean, a new version would coalesce from the same instincts that created the previous one. Homo sapiens is a religious species. You’d have to get rid of humans to get rid of religion.
skado
Level 9
Dec 23, 2018
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I have an uncomfortable feeling that it would evolve in whatever species took humanity's place.
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