Are Humans Getting More Religious?

[Kaplok Kaplok]

Intuition says that as time modernizes, people are getting less religious.

But, here are the two diferent closing remarks of H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds (1898), and its movie adaptation War of the Worlds (2005) narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Take note how they framed the ending of the same story.

The War of the Worlds (1898)

For so it had come about, as indeed I and many men might have foreseen had not terror and disaster blinded our minds. These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things--taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many--those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance--our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

War of the Worlds (2005 film)

From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

 

[foxicle]

Sorry slow ako. Anong connect sa religiousness ng tao sa science fiction about alien invasion?

 

[thisishard]

di ko gets. sorry.

 

[jayendecastro]

basta maganda yung movie sure ako.. hehe

 

[plhbg1]

as time modernizes the errors in all religious books are getting exposed to the point that they no longer work

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

Sorry slow ako. Anong connect sa religiousness ng tao sa science fiction about alien invasion?

Sorry, inedit ko na ng konte at nag underline ng highlight sa quote.

di ko gets. sorry.

 

[foxicle]

Kung scientist tatanungin mo, natural selection ang nangyari.

Kung religion naman ang basis, grace of God.

 

[plhbg1]

Sorry, inedit ko na ng konte at nag underline ng highlight sa quote.

ah so nag base ka sa dalawang movies released in different days then you created a trend that looks like what the thread is all about, hehe i don't agree that the minds of the people on earth can only be represented by 2 movies

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

ah so nag base ka sa dalawang movies released in different days then you created a trend that looks like what the thread is all about, hehe i don't agree that the minds of the people on earth can only be represented by 2 movies

Ano ba sinasabi mo? Ang sinasabi ko lng nmn ay 100+ yrs ago, this story appealed to science, then 100 yrs forward it appealed to religion.
It is a question not, "creating a trend", and it is not to say that it is true for every single person, but more pointing out an unusual pattern.

 

[plhbg1]

Ano ba sinasabi mo? Ang sinasabi ko lng nmn ay 100+ yrs ago, this story appealed to science, then 100 yrs forward it appealed to religion.
It is a question not, "creating a trend", and it is not to say that it is true for every single person, but more pointing out an unusual pattern.

is pattern not a trend?

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

Ung "creating" ung mali.

is pattern not a trend?

 

[plhbg1]

Ung "creating" ung mali.

so anu pala ang ginawa mo? seeing a trend na lang siguro para di ka ma-offend hehe

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

so anu pala ang ginawa mo? seeing a trend na lang siguro para di ka ma-offend hehe

Nuance my friend.. haha.. observing does not mean creating. And it is unusual dont you agree?

 

[plhbg1]

And it is unusual dont you agree?

paano ako maka agree e you just represented a general trend with just 2 movies as samples, statistics doesn't work like that

 

[Kaplok Kaplok]

paano ako maka agree e you just represented a general trend with just 2 movies as samples, statistics doesn't work like that

Jeez.. saan ba nakasaad na statistics kasi to.. at ito ang truth? Kung wala kang opinion that is fine.. as if nmn yung mga sinasabi mo dito is based on statistics..