RE: What makes a religion?
June 15, 2016 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2016 at 11:27 am by FatAndFaithless.)
No. That would just make you a crazy person . I hold the belief that if I don't tie my shoes every day I will trip, so I perform the ritual of tying my shoes to prevent this consequence. Nobody would call that a religion.
"Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views,sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence"
The 'order of existence' is the biggest part there, and all the other components are what relates humanity to that. Now, if you thought the world was at the mercy of a cosmic grape monster, and unless you perform rituals x, y, and z he would turn the world into a grape, and you got this information from a sacred set of grape texts, and set up an organization (cult) based around these rituals and texts and declared yourself the grape-appointed interpreter for the Will of Grape...that'd be far closer to how a religion is defined than one belief with one action.
A religion is a system of beliefs, behaviors, and practices that are interlinked with each other.
"Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views,sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence"
The 'order of existence' is the biggest part there, and all the other components are what relates humanity to that. Now, if you thought the world was at the mercy of a cosmic grape monster, and unless you perform rituals x, y, and z he would turn the world into a grape, and you got this information from a sacred set of grape texts, and set up an organization (cult) based around these rituals and texts and declared yourself the grape-appointed interpreter for the Will of Grape...that'd be far closer to how a religion is defined than one belief with one action.
A religion is a system of beliefs, behaviors, and practices that are interlinked with each other.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson