Will the golden age of enlightenment that is upon us mean an end to current established religions and their churches?

..Or will there always be religious groups calling each other "enemy" and "evil" and trying to force their religion upon them?

How many will die before we learn to love and forgive?

what age of enlightenment? people dont seem much different than they have ever been before,,,,certainly no more enlightened about love and forgiveness( which by the way, are values my baptist church reinforced)

I am speaking of the golden age which follows the current age. It is the age of Aquarius that follows the age of Pisces.

And I don't know about your view of the world and I suppose each person sees the world differently, but I can see a great deal of enlightenment and consciousness growing in the world (and of course that is why the opposite, the darkness, has to rear its head to keep the balance.)

I do see things changing... a lot.

oh, ok, Im not astrologically inclined, so I wasnt aware of those types of things. I see things changing too, I just wouldnt consider it 'enlightenment' ..seems more like people are dumbing down and egoing up

I do also and it's going to keep coming...we wanted change and were getting it. Just the in the way most thought. It's an exciting time to be on the planet.

I agree

I guess that would depend on what you consider enlightenment is. LOL

Yes I do see a lot of dumbing down, but that could be just the minions. Minions are people animated by the earth spirit because there was no higher self available to animate the life form. A minion is a human that has an animal spirit.

The smartest person on the planet right now is not a human.....it's Google.

It is amazing how we have the answer to any question we can think of at the tips of our fingers. Google is God, the all knowing.

religion is killing itself...more and more people see through all that BS.. thats why athiests are on the rise...
you dont need a god or a religion to be spiritual and more people are finding that out..

The world has conditioned its people to respond like some of you. God is real. He has commandments that most do not keep. It is easier to deny God than change ours ways in a manner that is pleasing to Him. The world in which those who deny God live in will shortly end.

I don't think anyone is saying there is no god, creator, all that is, I am , whatever ya want to call it, religion is not needed to know there is a power greater than me, that I am a part of and that works with me and through me.

Society as we know it IS ending....

The only problem I see with this kind of thinking is that so many supposedly "religious" humans have extremely different ideas about what "God" supposedly wants and expects from us.

You might point to the Christian Bible and particualr interpretations of it. Someone eles will point to the Jewish Torah. Someone else points to the Quran. Many Asian people point to the teachings of Buddha. There is also a very serious and growing interest in religions such as Wicca, and other nature-based religions and spiritualities.

So when you speak of keeping God's "Commandments" what exactly do you mean? Even the myriad of Christian denominations don't agree with each other. Clearly the Catholics and Protestants differ quite a bit in their interpretatios of their scriptures. And the protestants are always protesting againts each other as usual.

So where does "Gods Commandments" even come into play? No one even agrees on what they actually are. Even the Christian Jesus didn't agree with the laws of the Old Testament. That's precisely why he was crucified. In fact, that's the hallmark of the Abrahamic religions. They want to crucify everyone who doesn't agree with their specific interpretation of doctrine.

I also don't see where the bible portrays such high moral values. It condones slavery and male chauvinism. I personally feel that my own moral values are far higher than what the authors of the Bible came up with. I think the men who wrote that book were pretty sick to be quite honest about it.

There are no "commandments" that can be attributed to any particular God unless you can first point to (and prove) the existence of that particular individual sovereign being. Then, having done so, you must prove that these commandments came from him and not one of his so-called followers.

The only law that exists in this, our world, is the law of Karma. That is also understood as the.

Law of Cause and effect which states:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

and

The law of attraction which states:
"That which is like unto itself is drawn."

Also, common sense will tell you that for free will to exist, a commandment with the punishment of death is a violation of free will.

Example:
"The wages of sin is death."

The term "sin" is simply thought of (and owned) by organized religion meaning the disobedience of your Lord and master, the all mighty God. In these terms, it is a slave and master relationship. There is no freedom and no choice and no free will. Only obedience and disobedience.

If the almighty God cannot be known, cannot be looked upon, then he she or it cannot rule over our lives or make commandments. The commandments spoken of in the Bible were made by someone else. They are not the commandments of the true God, who insists that all conscious entities be given free will and responsibility over their own lives.

Yes, there are laws in place in this universe, but they are automatic and impersonal.

WE all obviously believe what we want to believe, whether it be Karma, cosmic laws (which have to be discovered and recorded and documented by man, just like Gods laws were) or just live and let live.

Facts are if we are treating each other with love and respect in this life than in this life it will not matter much. But IF there is a life after with God, I will have chosen Him and if there is none, I will be no worse off for it...

How are you "choosing God" if God cannot be known or described?

How do you "choose God?"

The same way you choose to believe in Astrology or Karma,,,,I choose to have faith that God is real, as described in the history written about his son,,,

I wouldn't trust any God who plays hide-and-seek and refuses to converse with me directly to explain what he does or doesn't want from me.

The Biblical story is full of contradictions. It claims that no man can converse with God, yet the same book gives stories of several men who had conversations with God. Moses and Job to mention a few, and then there was Abraham himself. And lets not forget about Adam too. I'm sure there were others if I can think of this many just off the top of my head.

So clearly this is a God who supposedly CAN communiate with individual human beings if he so chooses. Clearly the biblical mythology is just a very poorly written fable that isn't even consistent in what it claims God can or can't do.

I don't view that as choosing God. It is only choosing to believe that the things written in the Bible are true.

To choose God, in my opinion, is to choose good and to do what is right.

As I define God (as Good, and as love,) to choose God is to choose love, kindness and forgiveness, etc.

To choose God has nothing to do with what you choose to believe or what you choose to hope is true. It has to do with how you actually live your real life.

Even an atheist can choose God if they respect life, and are kind, loving, forgiving, at peace, and do the right things. To choose life is to choose God.

I can respect that ,, to choose life though makes life the end goal,,,,for me the end goal is to be with the Father, which is why I choose to love and honor Him,,,as I said though,,,possibly all good people will return to dust, and possibly some good people will choose to return to a God who exists,,,