On brink of Extinction

ET - 2Aug2019

Religion is set to become extinct
in nine countries, as there's a
steady statistical rise in those
claiming no religious affiliation
A research team took census
data stretching back as far as a
century from countries such as
Australia, Canada, the Czech
Republic, Finland, Ireland, the
Netherlands, New Zealand and
Switzerland. In many modern
secular democracies, people are
identifying themselves as non
affiliated with religion.
In the Netherlands, the numb
er was 40%, and the highest was
in the Czech Republic, at 60%
In all the countries, indications
were that religion was headed
toward extinction. The findings
were reported at the American
Physical Society meeting in
Dallas, US.
Czech novelist Milan Kundera
predicted back in 1959 that "peo
ple will first do away with the
sectarian affiliations of their
respective religions and slowly
with the whole concept of religion
on altogether". For thousands
of years, religion has remained
in the universal consciousness
so entrenched that its eliminati
on appears extremely difficult
In India's last census, 2.7% peo
ple didn't mention they belong-
ed to which faith
"Mankind cannot yet imagine
a world without god. But it can
realise the futility of all faiths
sooner or later,"stated Carl Sag.
an. The way we're witnessing
bloodshed all over the world in
the name of religion, it seems
mankind's level of tolerance
has come to a pass. Rather than
bind people together, religion
has caused rifts and wedges. It
has claimed more lives than all
the catastrophes and disasters
ut together.