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Originally Posted by John Doe
I am curious. Could you give me a couple of those definitions of religion that would include Atheism?
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Here are a couple that I see skimming through it quickly, from
this list. As you can see the list is pretty long so I don't have time to go through it and read all of them.
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14. Religion is social worldmaking
71. “All ideas and feelings are religious that refer to an ideal existence”
83. Clifford Geertz: Religion is 1) a system of symbols which acts 2) to establish powerful, pervasive, long-lasting moods and motivations in men by 3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and 4) clothing these conceptions with an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
88. Oxford University Press textbook: “Religion has been about power and meaning in relation to human destiny … It expresses our sense of being ‘tied and bound’ by relations of obligation to whatever power we believe govern our destiny—whether these power be natural or supernatural, personal or impersonal, one or many …” (6)
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Now I do realize that these are not strict, all encompassing definitions, but are merely ways at looking at religion. Some of which could cause someone looking at Atheism to think it is more closely related to religion than they had previously thought.