+35 This generation is the one that has questioned religion the most, and may very likely end religion and faith as we know it for future generations, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Are you serious? You can't end religion. Any good evolutionary biologist will tell you that a belief in God is hardwired into humans. Not only that, but religious people don't go down easy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A belief in God isn't hardwired. What IS hardwired is a mechanic in our psychology that fills in gaps in our knowledge with whatever seems to fit best at the moment. This generation has access to the world's information at the click of a mouse so there's a smaller demand for this God guy to fill in those holes. That said, it's no surprise that most internet regulars are, at the least, agnostic. Religion itself may never die, but I can see its influencing waning to the point of irrelevance.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

every generation has questioned religion and its still here.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, but now they're not being slaughtered for openly questioning it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've seen this one a million times on here.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This generation has access to google so they can easily do their own research and draw their own conclusions whereas in the past people had to believe what people told them or do research in a library which probably wouldn't help that much and is a lot more effort than google. So I reckon OP is right, maybe not this generation because they've had faith indoctrinated into them but next generation will be a lot more faithless.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I wiiiiish.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think it'll slowly fade away but not necessarily just within one generation.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Maybe a couple generations from now, I can see religion being somewhat rare to find. Like take the amount of all Amish people and say that equals religious people.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The most annoying thing anyone does on this site is think that our generation is special. Its not. We haven't done anything in our time so nothing will change, as Tyler durden said 'We are the middle children of the world, we have no great war' and nothing to fight for. Every generation questions religion and the scale always sways slightly left and right but never really moves.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Each new generation is more special than the last. That's how we improve and evolve.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What makes us more special?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This was obviously posted by an American because in other countries of the world, religion plays a huge part in their citizens' lifestyles. I guess we can't expect someone from this generation with so much information at her fingertips to actually do a little research before making such a bold claim.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why would it automatically be from an American..? I'm pretty sure a few countries from Europe, say, Ireland, are less religious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I doubt that religion will end. Even if organized religion ends, there will still be people who follow a personal religion, or a personal interpretation of a previous faith.

by Anonymous 11 years ago