Would a cure for mortality fatally wound religion?

The oldest woman who ever lived was French woman Jeanne-Louise Calment who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997. This is according to the guinness book of world records and they generally need a fair amount of proof before they award a title to anyone

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=48373

Well then, my church school teacher was wrong when he said that no one would live past 120.

And a argument against

is the fact that the person here is a woman so… you can say it has to be a man…

Hi everyone

no i don’t think immortality would mean anything as far as religion goes…

First of all… religion is primarily an “origin” for all existence… it’s main purpose is to account for the world around us… then it accounts for our existence… and out “natural” limitations… Whatever we develope (a cure for mortality) does not disprove anything religion has to say… when god decides we need to die… we will die… so if we become immortal it is only becaus god has willed it so… and thus nothing has been disproved…

Secondly… no religios writing, or scripture, is to be considered litiral… otherwise, when we discovered that the world was round and everything didn’t revolve around it, we would have killed off a bunch of religions right then and there…

so all this talk about someone living 122 years is useless… nothing in scripture is litiral…

The only way to kill religion is to prove (without a doubt) the origin of all existence, the ultimate force, and identify it as something other than god, or spiritual…

That’s what i think… however… if there was no such thing… or if it were impossible to prove… then religion will live for as long as we have need of it… and die once we don’t require an explination for the way of things…

that’s what I think anyway…

P.S. I’m new to this forum… so again… Hi everyone… :smiley:

You caught me with that stickler- I thought you meant “man” in the sense of mankind/humanity. The oldest ever woman was indeed Jeanne Louise Calment at age 122. There’s also a 116 yr old woman currently alive and at least one documented 113 year old.

But strictly speaking you may be correct- I can’t find documented proof of a male who is proven to have lived past 120, although I’ve heard of several who claimed to have but lived in areas where birth certificates don’t exist.

I think that’s apparent, yes.

Ironically most religions would die a horrible death.

Simple chain-logic answers this one.

What is mosty religion about?
Heaven and hell/preparing for the afterlife.

Religion is a set of beliefs that force you to live your life in a particular way so that you get into heaven.
If there is no death, you won’t go to heaven or hell.
Therefore there is no need to live your life by the teachings of religion.
Therefore there is no need to go to sermons etc
There is no need to go to a place of worship
There is no need to pay them money
There is no money to pay preachers.
Religion dissapears forever.

That answer your question?

Hi matmilne,

My Religion is about life and the tremendous spectacle that I am witnessing in this life. I only think about heaven and hell when other people mention it and I believe that to prepare for an afterlife, I have first to understand how to live this life.

Therefore your “chainlogic” breaks at the first link :wink:

Shalom
Bob

From what I know, eastern religions are more concerned with some sort of equilibrium that you must achieve in life and less with what happens after we die.

As always, religions will find a way. If we find the cure tomorrow, the indeed, religions would be in serioud trouble. It’s like reviving someone from cerebral death in ancient world and ask them to explain it. If we discover that cure after we have prolongued our lifespan to a 3 digit number or if imortality means that we find a way to put our brain in an artificial body, then religion would find a way more easily.

Some think that a flagrant contradiction of religions main themes could destroy it. That would be true if the act of faith would be entirely logical and rational.

the cure for morality is reality. It doesn’t affect religion since the whole point of religion is to ignore reality by replacing it with a series of fantasies. And then to intertwine those with your emotions which effectively conditions you as a follower. Poor little sheep.

Weak, Mat, very weak…

Shalom
Bob

of course

the truth is harder to believe than a dream