RE: What makes a religion?
June 17, 2016 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 5:26 pm by Losty.)
(June 17, 2016 at 5:15 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(June 17, 2016 at 5:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: That's a linguistic idiom...and isn't going to be suitable as the contents of a logical proposition. For flavor, here is ours.
Religion - obligation, bond, reverence
Seems meaningless without context eh? So does "what we follow" in english.
I follow the car in front of me. Is that my religion..by either little idiom.....? OFC not.
This is not how language work. Words all of a different context. I said follow, but the word is more closer to "obey". But then you might say obeying my boss is a religion, etc, but it's obviously not referring to that.
The root word just shows it has to do with what we decide to obey and follow in life, and the word "worship" comes from the root to be enslaved to, and the word ilah (god) comes from the word to what diverts us from things towards that.
So you combine them, and you get over all image. However, the root words, often give an idea, but they are not the meaning of the words themselves.
Nope sorry.
Neither follow nor obey works. And I have no idea what you're going on about. Keep explaining or find a word that makes sense or use a whole sentence to make your point. At this point you've given me: surrender, submit, follow, and obey.
So far my religion by your description seems to be anyone with a weapon or another way of forcing me to surrender, dominant sexual partners, my friend/a lot of cars/a duckling/my kids/cooking instructions, and local state and federal laws and again dominant sexual partners.
This is appearing to be a seriously weird religion.