I've been thinking about this a bit lately, since reading "Things Fall Apart", and I thought I'd throw it out to you guys to see what you think. If you think I'm a complete idiot who deserves pierced in places where no human should ever be pierced, that's fine. If you think I'm a genious and I deserve to be showered with gifts, that's fine too. It's even more fine if you act on those thoughts. Anyways, on to the point. I think that religion is evolving. I'm not saying that any religion is right, or that any is wrong, but it appears to me that the main religions of the world are evolving in a way.

Alright, thousands of years ago, and even now (although a lot less prevalent), there were many relgions based on fable-like stories. Things like the sun was a bird who flew across the skies, and that men held locusts in caves and released them at certain times, and things of that sort. These things can be disproven. I think that this is one of the main reasons that Christianity, Islam, and the like have replaced them in many parts of the world. While these earlier religions could be proven to be wrong, Judaism and such cannot be.

Then comes the next step. Although Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. can't be proven wrong, they also can't be proven true. Basically the arguments between believers and non-believers are settled not on scientific evidence, but on faith or lack there of. This is where I think the next "religion" may take over. Science. I think that science is a religion of sorts, and unlike the previous two forms of religion, science cannot be wrong, because it's ever changing, and based on the scientific evidence that we would use to prove other religions wrong.

Again, remember, I'm not saying that any religion is right and any other is wrong. I honestly don't know. Basically what I'm saying is that I think that in a few hundred years there will be a much higher percentage of people who believe in things other than what the majority does now. And then maybe a thousand years after that or so, something will replace Science as the least arguable religion. Anyways, I really don't know what I'm talking about anymore, and I'm sure neither of you do either, so I'm going to stop.

Wes - "Why is it that all my posts are always so incoherant and stupid? 'Because you're incoherant and stupid.' Oh. Well. That makes sense then."