{"id":14158,"date":"2023-01-01T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:18:28","slug":"the-future-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/the-future-of-religion","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>The future domain of religion will be essentially different from the present organized religions. Nevertheless, people will not be missing out on anything fundamentally worthwhile.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>This is a description of the setting in which many as yet unknowables will have their place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=2367\">Symbols and signs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sign is horizontal; a symbol is vertical. Signs are building blocks. They are the bricks, while symbols are the doors. The difference will be a fundamental given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Future religion will be about symbols to the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Future religion will not be about what is being looked at but how.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People will not search anywhere specifically for God or the divine but find out how to individually see that \u2018It\u2019 is always and everywhere present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People have had \u2018religion\u2019 long before the need to box it in. It was a natural happening and will be so again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Therefore, now is a passing stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will return to how it was, only with a higher degree of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be a synthesis of <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=1309\">rationality and depth<\/a>, with a feeling of sorry weirdness when looking back to the present, which will seem interesting and horrific. For instance, people <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=14144\">waging war in the name of What<\/a>?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shared with super-A.I.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will see the presence of our new and much more intelligent companion in everything \u2014 including in religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps most important to us, this will change our view of ourselves. In case of Compassionate A.I., this will be immensely positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we need to get through a <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=11373\">double bottleneck<\/a> of challenges. This gives me the most doubt about the present future. It\u2019s clear once we get past this \u2018small detail.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The future past of religious stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fate of any of today\u2019s religious stories is either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The story is appreciated for its poetic quality.<\/li><li>The story is a prosaic one of little to no poetic interest and mainly forgotten.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Only poetry will survive. Only poetry has been the aim of the entire happening anyway. The rest is temporarily functional at best. At worst, it\u2019s a hindrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The many different religions of this present age will disappear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not one will take over the others, even though all presently think they will be the one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry, but no. If you are an adherent to any denomination, this, too, is going to disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Without fighting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus\u2026 meanwhile do only makes the transition less or more strenuous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fighting&nbsp;<em>against<\/em>&nbsp;them only puts oil on religious flames, hardening standpoints. Even worse, their feeling threatened can provoke fundamentalist reactions before the inevitable letting go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s like when being afraid to dive, you come to the point of diving. Then you see the \u2018abyss\u2019 that, in retrospect, may turn out to be the setting of a minor experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Starting from the final certainty, one can better prepare for that future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A future of <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/category\/open-religion\">Open Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"14158\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_no_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\"  data-display-label=\"0\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\" \"  data-bookmarked-label=\" \"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"14158\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\"  style=\"display:none;\" > <\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"14158\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-14158\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\"><\/a><h3 class=\"cbxwpbookmark-title cbxwpbookmark-title-login\">Please login to bookmark<\/h3>\n\t\t<form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future domain of religion will be essentially different from the present organized religions. 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