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Is it reasonable to assume that organised religion can ever be eradicated?

While it may be true that personal religious beliefs can never be gotten rid of, is it a reasonable possibility to suggest organised religion may one day be no more?

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1. Nope. Much of the time, people are not contented to have their own private beliefs. They need outside conflrmation and that is where the organized religion comes in. Otherwise, Martin Luther would have been happy to simply break privately with the Catholic Church.
2. I believe that by taking a good look at the history of organized religion, you will find that it will most likely always be in existence in some form.
3. No not really. The common bond people need to meet as a group in any thing, religion, politics, sporting events. That thread to make a connection of some sort will always be there.
4. Western civilization has two capitals, as it were, Athens and Jerusalem, or philosophy and religion. Is it prudent to entertain the reopening of the bloody wars over religion, either sectarian or atheistic? Neither reason nor faith can disprove the other. Therefore it would seem that debating the question of which is superior is pointless unless one has a vested interest or blind attachment to one or the other. The West settled that issue in the 16th century by accepting the biblical admonition of the doctrine of "two cities," with respect due to each.
5. One day it will be no more. But not before mankind has FINALLY learned the lesson, not until Christianity and Islam have destroyed one another and nearly - but not quite - the whole of humanity along with them.
6. Your question is very similar to another one - is it possible to eradicate organized government? Think about all the different kinds of political systems, especially some of the most primitive. If something came along and swept aside all our existing governments and social structures, anarchy would last only as long as it took one person to agree with another over the enforcement of some rule - even if that rule was to not have any further agreements. Ten minutes on the outside. Organized religion is really no different. All it takes for a religion to be 'organized' is for two people to agree on something religious and decide to unify in that agreement. One person follows another, or both agree that one inspiration is true or another one false. Ta da! A small, but organized religion. The only way to eliminate either religion or politics is to eliminate SOCIETY. But since society is one of the main strengths of humanity as a whole, efforts would probably be better spent finding the BEST religions and political systems rather than trying to eradicate them altogether. That's my take anyway, for what it's worth. Peace.
7. Yes, and I think it is already happening with the Catholic religion--in my area alone, the number of Catholics have dwindled to such minimal numbers, every year they are closing dozens of churches around our areas-- the catholic schools are all combining - busing children for as long as 30 minutes---and I believe it is because the "baby boomers" are now the elders of this religion and have "lived" through the sins of this church- the molestations of little boys and girls that was a massive cover up by the Pope........how can a religion - which taught you that you will go to HELL if you even thought of half the things the priests did to these children, survive by trying to "forget" and sweep under the rug these indiscretions- that's what they actually had called them--I'm sorry, but I was one of those Catholic children who was tormented by the priests and nuns that an "evil thought" was a ticket to hell--I cannot justify or believe in any religion that places fear in children while the church is what they should fear the most.
8. no
9. No, even your opposition appears to be organized. You are soliciting agreement, if you could you'd take organized action against it, etc. -- But seriously... Speaking as a Catholic (a fairly big group) ; My faith ("personal religious faith") is precisely that the Catholic Church ("the organised religion") is the Church of Christ, so there is not the distinction with me that you seem to posit of everybody.