Just before this thread dives into throwing apples and oranges at each other.
What is a "religion"?
There are many very different dimensions
- believing in higher beings/deities
- ethical behavior (commandments like "don't kill" to "don't
fart drive cars" )
- political impact (e.g. cast system or using priests as functionaries or seeing a king as gods representative )
- adopted traditions (from Christmas trees to female circumcision)
- ethnic group thru strict endogamy *
@Erix: Darwin didn't solve the problem of the watchmaker, and Kant proved long ago that there can't be any proof either way.
Instead of discussing the badly defined R-word we should concentrate on aspects affecting our past and future - especially in a globalized world.
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