If anything would?
On both a personal and a collective level; what would it take to convince you that your current belief system is wrong? What landmark or exceptional act do you think could occur to disable the entire strands of your chosen religion and relegate it to the pages of history?
Is the some form of evidence, occurrence, act or archaeological find that could undermine your personal relationship with your faith? Is there some writing, some uncovered documents that could shake your convictions, some new evidence capable of casting a dubious shadow over your beliefs and that could perhaps compel you, however unwanted, to change your mind? Or are your current beliefs so ingrained, so solid and necessary to you that they would ‘roll with the punches’ and adapt to meet any potential changes or actions that would happen to jar with them, without damaging the core convictions you hold?
On a more global level; what revelation do you think would be capable of ending a current world religion for good, if anything? Religions have died before, fallen out of fashion and lost all committed adherents. It’s usually a long, multi-generational process, one generally started by it being superseded by a newer, ‘better’, more palatable belief system or enforced at the end of a sword. Can you foresee the future fall of your particular belief system, or does your adherence to it compel you to be absolutely assured in its continued and eternal correctness?
Thanks for any thoughts.
- Perhaps evidence is the wrong word; it would perhaps need to be a more personal experience to allow for internal reflection and rejection of a strongly held core ideal.
