(February 6, 2010 at 4:47 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Being religious does not require a belief in a god or gods. People may well want to distance themselves from organised religion, especially the catholic church for example, but that does not mean they are not, in themselves, religious if they adhere to a certain set of beliefs that I have outlined previously.
That is part of the problem. Part of your outline for what is religious was that they believe in God, yet you admit that they don't always believe in God, the other part was that they believe in Jesus as the son of God, but that only involves Christians, another part is that they believe in the Bible. Some don't, but rather the Quran. I think that your only real objection is that a theist, especially Christian, who denies the influence of or adherence to organised religion denies your limited opinion of them as well as the organised religion itself.
If you ask me I would say that in some sense of the word, everyone is religious and you can't define religious in terms which you have. There is some other reason for you doing it. You see all religious people as the same and all atheists as unique.
