Relgion old vs new

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What make all the current religions more valid than any of the past such as the Norse,Greek , Celtic, ect. Mythos? They all have their own stories purported to be true the old ones mostly an oral tradition the newer ones writen.They all had their devote followers,time and place of populaity. People talk of the afterlife how do they know their no going to meet Thor. Everybody seems quiet sure of themselves that any of this is true

Some people do worship those pantheons still.

Or 'again' would probably be more accurate.

Personally this fills me with glee because Loki's getting some followers now, and you know that guy is just awesome.


But yeah, old vs new doesn't mean as much as the views themselves. While chances are they are not correct about many aspects, many faiths hold a lot of value.

Including Christianity.


So in that sense, I don't consider religions 'wrong', just that certain aspects of them may not be correct.

The answer is obvious: Religions will die out once the technology exists for people to extend their lives forever, once we have mastered biotechnology religion will cease to exist. After all it's technically possible for someone to live forever once we have technology.

Religion is man's delusion to help him cope with the harsh reality of having to die and cease to exist forever. Lastly religion was made by the rulers to politically control the population because they knew they could take advantage of their stupidity and lack of education.

Well, the last paragraph isn't exactly true. The anceint Sumerian afterlife sucked, as did the Greek's. (Hades isn't much fun...)

And religion won't die, I can tell you that. Religion isn't only about the afterlife. (I don't even think we'll get that far in biotech, but that's besides the point.)

Xuincherguixe, I don't know about Loki. I was always more of an Odin or Thor person.

Funny that, because actually not all religions were 'created' by political leaders. They weren't necessarily 'created' by out-of-the-ordinary people either. Just people who decided they didn't agree with the current religions and decided to investigate for themselves.

Just interested - how are we going to get rid of the inherent imperfection that causes cells to stop renewing themselves after however many years?

You're not thinking straight, how do people give birth to children? Through infinite line of cell replication/regeneration. Obviously stem cells look very promising, also biotechnology will come up with new ways of being human, new designs for cells, cellular metabolism, different methods of replication besides dna/rna, etc... etc and what we call life.

Life fundamentally at it's base is nanotechnology and machinery, that's all it is. Go look at the bacterial flagella or ATP if you dont believe me.

hrm... What about neurons in our brains that die and never regenerate? Just a thought, not implying any thing. That looks like a big roadblock. The thing is, Mordy, that by the time you get something that can be immortal, you've already striped everything human out of it.
What does giving birth to children have to do with cells ceasing to reproduce, anyway?