Posted: Dec 01, 2016 9:30 am
tuco wrote:Of course not, religion is much more than believing in something. That is why I did not write it but wrote instead heading towards something, meaning: believing in something and applying such belief in everyday life.
Yes, I was agreeing with you.
There are definitions of religion, by some sociologists (and many dictionaries too) which are so broad as to include things like consumerism as a religion (in which it can be argued to be a subsidiary denomination of the Holy Church Of Self) and for the most part, I wouldn't strongly disagree. When I'm feeling particularly broad-minded, I might even accept that atheism is a sort of religion, or at the very least a belief system.
A bunch of atheists on a Sunday morning in London, England, who clearly don't need god to go to church, at least.