Hope for the Future

Thankfully, because pantheistic determinism is very tangible without any belief required, I find that I can most times get through to religious people when trying to convey my ideas. They simply cannot argue against it, because it does not require belief, just experience and knowledge. This is a good sign, and it indicates to me that the greatest threat to modern religions is education and travel. It is no coincidence that some of the world’s poorest countries are also some of the more religious. But with the onset of the internet and globalization I think we will very soon have the power to deal religion its ultimate death stroke and freeing the minds of those currently enslaved. 

First step is having a lingua franca, a language that everyone in the entire world speaks. This is crucial in sharing information since so much is lost in translation. Currently, English is the best bet at a lingua franca, which is why I choose to blog in it, let alone study it at a university level. If then you put a smartphone in everyone’s hands, suddenly all the information in the world is at their fingertips, albeit occasionally a little hacker assistance is required. Less progressed countries still ban a lot of websites because God forbid people should actually try to seek out their own information. But if the entire global information society is suddenly at everyone’s fingertips, then me and other transcender bloggers can reach all the people in the world. Everyone can read the books of Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku and other scientists, and then make up their own mind as what to believe instead of simply believing whatever prevailing religion their culture have indoctrinated them to support because of the lack of other sources of information. Right now, many third world populations are only being taught religion in school both because many books are not available in their language but also because their governments does not wish them to learn anything besides religion. Again, how can anything that requires people to be sheltered from information do any good in this modern age? Why does religion fear knowledge? Because it knows it will mean the end of it. Trying to shield people from information is the last desperate attempts of religious governments to control their subjects. 

But with those two key ingredients; a lingua franca and everyone online, I strongly believe they would fail and religion could be eradicated once and for all. Will it be missed? No, because people will simply know better. They might still practice it for sentimental reasons, like me going to church on Christmas Eve, but it will no longer determine their rational thoughts. Religion will enter the history books in the form of mythology. Jehova, Allah, Shiva, Lucifer, etc., all these fallen idols will take their place alongside Zeus, Odin and Santa Claus and the human race might finally reach its full potential. I have great optimism for the future of our species and by sharing these thoughts I hope to speed up the process of development. I put my trust in the Universe. It has brought us this far, who knows where it can takes us in the future if only we have the courage to fulfil our destiny as a species? Like Charles Dickens, I believe in humanity:

‘I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.’