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Originally Posted by viscus
Really? You don't hear about many adherents to Hellenism anymore, or people who worship the Norse pantheon. I think if society keeps progressing, then the modern religions will go the way that those have. There will always be people who are inclined towards superstition, but religion as such will be irrelevant.
I would love it if the rest of the world were like Japan, which has religion but on the whole lacks religiosity.
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Neopaganism, dude! And Christianity borrowed A LOT from pagans, Christmas and Easter being obvious but if I'm not mistaken the idea of hell is Greek in origin. Even with defunct religions you can see where they have greatly influenced other religions that exist to this day. And while the religion changes, religion itself will never go away.
And Japan had its huge problems with religion too, State Shinto was a factor in whipping up nationalism, as according to its teachings the Emperor was a god incarnate, and I think was banned after World War 2. Its a wonderful thing yes, but the reasons behind it aren't exactly wonderful.