What happens to religion if (some say when) we discover and implement immortality in people?

What happens to religion if (some say when) we discover and implement immortality in people?
One of the major bullet points of all faiths is that there is an afterlife, a world not physical, but spiritual.

What happens when no one dies?

>wanting to live forever

How do you know that you don't want to live forever if you've never tried it?

Better than not existing honestly. If you get bored of living you can just erase your memories over and over.

> wanting to die forever

>go camping
>fall in hole and break legs
>stuck forever because immortal

When they're talking about biological immortality, they're talking about stopping the aging process, which is the gradual breaking down of cells.

They don't mean that you can't bleed out or be killed or get sick.

that is basically my life but instead of falling in the hole i was born from one

1. THE ONLY ASPECT OF BEING THAT IS IMMORTAL IS ITS SOUL; PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE.

2. ONE SHOULD DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY, AND RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY CONSISTS IN REVERENCE TO GOD; RELIGION CONSISTS IN REVERENCE TO ANYTHING, OR ANYONE, OTHER THAN GOD.

3. IF TECHNOLOGICAL METHODS ARE IMPLEMENTED TO PROLONG BIOLOGICAL LIFESPAN, THE EFFECT ON SPIRITUALITY WOULD BE FURTHER DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE NOBLE, AND THE IGNOBLE —THOSE WHO WOULD REFUSE METHODS WOULD BE REAFFIRMING THEIR FAITH, WHILST THOSE WHO WOULD CHOOSE TO USE SUCH METHODS WOULD BE REAFFIRMING THEIR LACK OF FAITH.

4. THE EFFECTS ON RELIGION WILL BE THAT IT WILL REINFORCE IT, AND MAKE IT PROLIFERATE.

A major tenet of Buddhism is that all creatures are subject to samsara. Even if humans never died they would experience ignorance and cravings, unless they attain nirvana. It would arguably be harder for immortal humans to attain nirvana since they wouldn't feel the same urgency as we do with our short lives. Similar arguments are used in Buddhism to argue that devas of the lower realms don't attain nirvana because they're too focused on pleasure and avoid much of the suffering of samsara.

In Christianity, the world that is to come will be both physical and spiritual. Christianity does not teach that the material is bad, that's Gnosticism. These new immortal humans would probably live up to the Judgement Day, die, and then be judged. Those who are saved (if any) will receive perfected bodies.

Sad truth is that Gnosticism is Christianity without wishful thinking.

The idea of death that afterlife is meant to be an escape from, was invented by religion in the first place. It's solipsism with a spiritual flavor.

The idea of an afterlife wouldn't make any sense to somebody who wasn't raised with religion.

>fallacious rebuttal

No afterlife is the reward for obeying the deities whether its Heaven, Elysium, or Valhalla. They dont care about respecting the deities they are human thus need gibs to justify why they are following them. So if humans were immortal well they would need better gibs to support deities.

Also christian retards dont seem to realize when they die they stop existing until God resurrects them on judgement day, the whole you go to heaven or hell immediately is a Catholic lie.

>soul is immortal, physical immortality is impossible
no, that's wrong
>religion is reverence to anything other than god
this is wrong as well and very autistic
>using technological methods of immortality is unfaithful
this is an assumption/claim
>religion encourages immortality (can't understand if this is what you meant)
no. religion is too broad of a term to get into specifics

>What happens when no one dies?

Don't worry the muslims will solve that problem.

It is impossible to live forever, even if you're forever young you could be killed by an accident, natural disaster, homicide or an unkown illness just to say a phew

Molded by it.

Is it a sin to stop the aging process?

There is a difference between being immortal and having an indefinite lifespan.

being immortal is boring af

people will still die trough accidents and acts of murder...

>. Christianity does not teach that the material is bad, that's Gnosticism

Instead they teach that its a lessor state which should be wholly sacrificed for the next. Indeed Gods kingdom is not of this world.

Does the bible (not the catechism) talk about apotheosis?

How do you know that you don't want to die if you've never tried death?

>soul
>spirituality
>god
>noble
>faith

When you agree with an idiot you become an idiot yourself, not a wise man, so stop propagating his idiocies.

The stories will get adapted to thrive under new circumstances. Religions and related beliefs are fluid when viewed on a larger time scale.

New storytellers with better emotional exploitation will overtake the old, or the old will adapt.

There is no time in heaven, otherwise it wouldn't be perfect as time implies change, so once you die, it is likely that everything happens instantly from your new perspective.