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Originally Posted by photon
Semantics and irrelevant to the point. The point is that a much larger portion of people self identify as adhering to some kind of belief in God and participating in an organized religion to one degree or another, and unless peter12 is using the same difference in definition between religious and believers that you are and has taken that into account in his informal analysis I don't see how that's relevant.
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Classically, there is a huge difference between the religious and the theological.
Religion coming from the Latin meaning "to bind." Literally an expression of a political community. Theology coming from the Greek as that pertaining to the metaphysical world.
Nietzsche put it best when he lamented the death of God. We achieved great things with the reverance and transcedence that came from the belief in a higher power. I guess it all depends on what you consider great these days.
I'm a graduate student in Political Philosophy, I read mainly the Greeks and the French Romantics, so I think my definition of what is great differs from most people on this board.