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This is just some food for thought. When do you think that Humankind will develop enough to let go of it's suicidal attachment to belief in the mythical? Will it happen within our lives or our children's lives? Just curious to what some of you may think about this.

Chimon21 4 Jan 30
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It will not happen in the next generation or two, no. I think it's a thousand years away, give or take ... and then it is still not total; there will always be people stuck in religious ideation.

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We do not need to develop past it, we simply need to understand it and control our thinking.
The reason our species has been so successful is our ability to imagine, to ponder possibilities and to tell stories.
Should we ever develop to a point where we lose that, our society will stagnate and eventually collapse.
All that is require to achieve your desired effect is education and training of the young, allowing critical thought to separate out at all times the real from the imaginary.

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Myth-making is much more deeply embedded in our genetic makeup than rational thought is. You do the math.

skado Level 9 Jan 30, 2019
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Never. The need for myth, scapegoats, and irrational comfort associated with dying, is too great.

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Not in this, our, lifetime. Hell, even in Star Trek there were plenty of examples.

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We will most likely become extinct before we learn and we are really trying to achieve this with leaders like trump who saids there is climate warming with these temps.

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What is the difference between mythical and wishful thinking? We are headed over a large precipitous and refuse to see it coming. Wishful thinking, hope faith in technology or just laziness are many reasons for our blindness. To me religion is just a minor cause in the world's problems.

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I don't know if I agree with the "suicidal" association. But I do believe mysticism (particularly religious mysticism) is a disease/mental illness. And no, we won't outlive it. However, we are moving in the right direction as more and more people are realizing that religions are (and have always been) a hoax and are walking away.

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i do no foresee that we will ever do that.

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It's not suicidal. Close to 7,000,000,000 people believe in fairy tales, and most of them believe the fairy tales tell them to keep having more kids.

It's literally an evolutionary strategy. If some humans are inclined to believe religious nonsense, and some religious nonsense tells them to have more kids, before long almost all humans will believe in the religious nonsense that tells them to have more kids.

BD66 Level 8 Jan 30, 2019
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We see the trends of less attendance at churches. However, in America specifically you have a government that allows too many of its laws to be based on religion or controlled by religion. Until that nonsense stops, religion isn’t going anywhere here. In Canada and Europe religion plays a much lesser role.

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imo it is happening right now, but i would suggest "supernatural" there over mythical, as we have a diff definition of "myth" now that does not honor the definition of "mythology," which was until very recently the only way humans had to pass truth to the next generation. The Bible is a mythology, and was not meant to be read literally except by "the wise, the blind" as It repeatedly points out

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It'll never happen. Mankind has proven its pathological need to believe in a realm populated by supernatural beings superior to themselves who can offer them guidance, forgive their sins, and save them from death. Tell people a lie that's reassuring enough and they'll follow like lemmings...right over a cliff.

wadr the Bible and other Scripture will openly dispute all of your points except for the first I guess, "all sins are forgiven, the whole world's," "he who seeks to save his life will lose it," etc

@bbyrd009 The bible also says I can beat my slaves as long as I don't kill them and that unicorns are real. The bible is a book full of shit.

@Sgt_Spanky or at least a great mirror I guess. have a nice day

@Sgt_Spanky the bible allows you to beat your slaves to death as long as they survive the beating by a day or two. Perhaps god enjoys the suffering.

@bbyrd009 It's a mirror into the ignorance and superstition of the Bronze Age. That's it.

@Sgt_Spanky sorry, you don't have the first clue I guess, "No Son of Man may die for another's sins" is in there, "all go to the same place" is in there, "No one has ever gone up to heaven," on and on. "I desire mercy, not sacrifice," see, all of your objections are surely addressed I guess

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