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Originally Posted by Vlora
Religion is where you believe in God or Gods. You believe in the bible or whatever holy book your religion has, be it the quaran or some other. There are things you believe in.
I don't see why, that if you don't believe in these, it isn't a religion.
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So any belief about any higher being automatically constitutes a religion, is what you're saying. Would you consider beliefs that are influenced by one's acceptance (or lack thereof) of a higher being, to have another religion? In other words, if one believes in a god, and if for topics such as evolution, if one adheres to theistic evolution, would that not make theistic evolution a religion? One could argue then that evolution could then be religious.
The point I'm getting at is if you believe that religions are simply beliefs pertaining to a higher being, then you can make many things a religion because of their possible affiliation with higher beings. If you are fine with calling theistic evolution, evolution, abortion and so forth to be religions, then carry away doing so but if not, then your definition of what constitutes a religion needs to have something added to make it more restricted.