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Originally Posted by pinoychink790
Religion - B. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
Got that from Dictionary.com. Religion doesn't require spirtuality. All it requires is a belief system grounded in such belief and worship. Have anything to say to that?????
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The quotation "grounded in such belief and worship" is key. How important is the belief in your life?
It's a matter of degree. Dictionaries define "belief" & "religion" such that you could twist either for argument's sake. In my youth I heard sermons lumping "disbelief" in with atheism, secularism and satanism - all as religions - all heading for the Big Burn. It flew because semantics weren't significant and they were preaching to the choir.
Is disbelief in Santa a religion?
If I steadfastly worship my cornflakes as the all powerful creator I'm certainly practicing a religion, insane or otherwise. But if you look at me with bewilderment, are you practicing some kind of anti-cornflake religion or just not believing?
I'm not equating Santa or cornflakes to Christianity or any other religion, I'm just trying to explain my thoughts on the degrees of difference (levels of preoccupation?) implied by the words "belief" and "religion."
Certainly, anything may be practiced to the point of religion if a person's devotion to the cause crosses some gray line inside themselves. Only they really know their position. The rest is semantics.