DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

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When people go out of their way to assert things that weren't asserted...  *fail*

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If you take a belief and shape it into a religion, then that's what it is. If the east coast were to be annexed into Canada, guess what?  I would be a Canadian even if I didn't want to be.  If something changes its form or designation, it becomes something else.  When you start claiming religious rights and protections, people are going to see you as a religion.  I would have to assume that's why National Geographic did it.  We've seen the formation of a religious group called the "nones."  We had to define it as a whole to offer them the requested protections. Not only that. but said groups are claiming things like tax exemptions so they can organize and discuss or practice religious dogma.  Likewise, there are Christians/Muslims that aren't practicing. They don't go to church/mosque and they don't belong to any religious organization, attend services, or whatever.  They would still be considered part of a "religion" even though how they practice is indirect and not the same as those practicing in a fuller sense.  It doesn't matter what I say.  I'm not the one making them a religion.  It was the choice of those who decided they needed to try and organize and make it something else.

I guess now you need to define "religion".
A group, society or clan does not necessarily align with a religion.

Let's see what the Oxford English Dictionary says
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religion
noun
[mass noun]

1. The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
   ‘ideas about the relationship between science and religion’

1.1. [count noun] A particular system of faith and worship.
   ‘the world's great religions’

1.2. [count noun] A pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.
‘consumerism is the new religion’


Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence’, perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind’.
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Why are religions tax exempt and porotected?
Would you think that these groups are claiming equal tax exemptions and protections in the hopes of starting this discussion in society leading to having the large religions getting taxed like any other institution, instead of having themselves not be taxed?

I think a more pressing question is why they would need to do so in "context of religion."  There are many other ways to get said protections and exemptions.  This is just my conjecture, but I would suggest it's a competing view point.  With the definition, I think 1.1 and 1.2 would be most applicable, but 1.1 in a lesser amount of cases where people participate with uncertainty, but still practice.  Even in third world countries where they assert values to things, even in nature, and worship them.  That's the thing with religions, there are more out there than we can logically count, and each has it's own versions.  That's why it's easy and sometimes necessary to lump things together.  If not we would have to make a bazillion different versions of the same laws to accommodate everybody.