Thread: Religions come and go, so why do people say their God cares and their religion is special?

Well this is probably going to sound a little strange but here we go.

Basically as we all know many hundreds of religions have existed over the past thousands of years. Many we don't remember in any way, some we have tiny amounts of information on, some we know a lot about but find their mythology, beliefs etc almost laughable etc. Everyone knows this to be true and yet when I ask people about why they believe their religion is the one true religion they generally say "because my holy book/God says so", obviously not that directly but that is the basic message. They also believe their religion is the correct path to God and a positive afterlife and other religions are wrong. However it seems to me that they do not consider the fact in a few thousand years their religion will almost certainly be a distant memory. Religions have more longevity in these modern times since they can spread globally however in time all religions seem to fracture into many denomination which slowly begin to conflict with each other more and more until they may as well be entirely separate. I remember a news report last year about a religion which is based in the east that is basically dying out. They are persecuted by Muslims and there are very few left. Some live in England but they say because they have no places to build their temples they cannot properly pass on their religion to their children and so in a few generations it will be lost. Now their God is obviously not stopping this, in a thousand years their religion may be gone completely yet their God has not come down to save them. Just like Zeus does not come down now to try and revive the religion of the Ancient Greeks.

I mean what if in 5,000 years Christianity is gone. Maybe a new religion with a completely different doctrine has evolved, or religion itself has faded away to small pockets of the world. Does that mean Christianity was false? Their God did not come down to save their dying faith. Just like the Norse religion, the Norse Gods have not come back to reveal themselves to us, was their religion all a lie?

I know most of that was a rambling mess but I hope you understand, at least in part, what I am getting at. It seems no religions last forever, their Gods die with them, I suppose I am asking..why? Why does this happen, why do these ultimate beings not stop it? What if we end up with a world of atheists in 10,000 years as technology as solved every question we have. Does that mean religion was nothing?

any input is great. I just wanted to get my thoughts down I suppose.