RE: Faux News: Atheism is a religion, too
March 20, 2013 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 1:19 am by Whateverist.)
(March 20, 2013 at 1:12 am)apophenia Wrote:(March 20, 2013 at 12:57 am)whateverist Wrote: So what the fuck do you think religion is?Hellifiknow.
C'mon. There's gonna be a quiz on this. Some other definitions I find on wiki include:
"There is no precise equivalent of "religion" in Hebrew, and Judaism does not distinguish clearly between religious, national, racial, or ethnic identities.[15] One of its central concepts is "halakha", sometimes translated as "law"", which guides religious practice and belief and many aspects of daily life."
"The anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined religion as a "system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."
So it seems to me that religion is pretty much whatever you feel is especially important and place in a prominent position within your beliefs. Maybe. Not really very well defined, is it?