Do you believe future generations will look back at christianity as we do on Greek mythology?

Many aspects already are. The church used to think the Earth was the center of the universe. Galileo was persecuted for think the Earth revolved around the sun. That religious view is now considered silly mythology by most people. Pretty much any attempts by the religions to explain how we got here are pure myth. Adam and Eve, Noah, Sampson with his magic hair and several other stories are clearly no more believable than Greek mythology.

I think it is Christianity will end up like the ideals of the Greeks and Romans. Every religion follows the same path; starts out as a sect, grows in power and followers before reaching such a start of power that those at the top begin to bring about their own downfall by turning from the ideals of the religion to the reality of currency. The religions then slowly die down and disappear or are incorperated into other religions. It happened to Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic mythologies. While each of these still exsist in some form of Paganism, they are not what they once were. It is happening to Christianity as we speak (I'm not trying to offend people) but there was a time that Catholism was the ONLY religion in the European continent and now they must contend with many others when once non-believers were either driven out or killed as heretics. It may not disappear altogether but I believe that in time will become the very small minority that it was to begin with and something else will take it's place. That's simple human behaviour.

It is true that people were burnt sacrificed and killed, but it is also true that philosophers of the ancient greek world were already questioning the whys and hows of religion.

Religion serves a number of purposes; guidance, safety, mass control, power gain... etc.

I don't believe that the greeks were "crazy" because they didn't have the scientific advancements we have now. They didn't know what caused thunder, so to say there was an angry man in the sky was just as acceptable as suggesting that the clouds did it. I hope that in the future religion will be used in the way it was meant to be as spread by prophets and people of god, and not for money making, personal gain or as an excuse to rid one of sin. Perhaps in the future people will have accepted science as a reasonable way to explain things around them, and still be able to have faith in their god. As for people strapping bombs to themselves, it's disgusting now, and will be disgusting in the future.

There are already people who think that today's religions are crazy. I think that this is a good question but the bias in it is really quite difficult to get around. As a historian, you should be working to eliminate that.

people would probably see us as more of a fools than we see the greek gods as unrealistic. the greek gods evolved out of the astronomical studies. Ares is mars, apollo is the sun, zeus was Jupiter. so you can at least give them the credit of discovering something important as the result of their religion. what did christianity discover? perhaps they will remember it as a very successful corporation which lasted many centuries and made some people a lot of money. other than that i can't give it any credit. same goes for Islam and all other religions. perhaps they will be remembered as even more ancient religions like those of ancient mesopotamia where man where burned as sacrifice to gods.

ancient greeks where pretty smart people. they are the equivalent of our future. different ages have different standards.

Yes. As long as we continue to gain an objective view and expose the politics behind the faiths and divisions therein, nominative deity systems will loose respect. The Dead Sea Scrolls have exposed a lot of researchers to how edited the bible is, for example. We will some day have a majority of people that see it as wrong headed to say that what God says to an individual applies to everyone. But I don't see humanity doing without god or God. (sic)

Your question referred to Christianity. A lot of the answers have to do with the Old Testament, which was written for the Jewish religion. Only the New Testament, written after Christ's life, is Christianity.

Actually, the New Testament was influenced by Greek mythology: after all it was written in Greek for Greeks.

If the human race survives that much longer, yes, they will look back at current religions and see them like we see Greek mythology, ancient religions and their practices.

Yes, why wouldn't they? Because we're right? That's an extremely arrogant conception.