Excited Penguin Wrote:Wikipedia summarizes the anthropological view of religion, which has the virtue of not defining any of the world religions into not being religions anymore:Rhythm Wrote:No it isn't, as you've been shown in this thread time and time again..by having people link you the definitions.
If -you- define theism as a religion personally (and that's fine) then ofc there can be no theism without religion, it would be tautology.
Religion - the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Theism -belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.
How is the second definition not included in the first?
It is not as a religion that theism is defined as, but as a form of religion.
Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, ethics, and social organisation that relate humanity to an order of existence.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
