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religion is a made up word and idea to describe a set of phenomenon in western and arab cultures. it pretends that first, all the monothestic worldview/cultures/whatevers are all functionally if not theologically congruent, and then proceeds to say the same about Eastern cultures/worldviews/whatevers.
it's a term of analysis that does not refer to any actual object, but rather it most accurately describes the way the primarily Christian west(academic and otherwise) thinks about itself.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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