RE: What makes a religion?
June 15, 2016 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2016 at 11:41 am by FatAndFaithless.)
(June 15, 2016 at 11:33 am)robvalue Wrote: Alright, cool. So yeah, "religion" does imply some sort of scale.
So let's say we've got loads of followers, it's made a cultural impact and so on...
Does it have to have speculative beliefs as part of it? It seems to me that is essential, at least for every religion I've ever heard of. And so by definition it makes them kind of irrational.
Depends on who you ask, heh. Folks like Drich might say none of his views are speculative. All of his convictions have been confirmed by his A/S/K thing, etc. One thing that most religions have in common is they propose a framework to determine our 'place in the universe' or our 'role in the grand scheme of things' (how we got here, where we're going, how do we get there, etc). I suppose by definition that has to be speculative, since we as humans can't see the entire universe or the grand scheme.
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