2006-11-16 14:01:23 · 32 answers · asked by AVATARD 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
religion (n.)
An existent entity that organizes worship of a nonexistent entity.
See also: scam, fraud, cult, organized crime
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2006-11-16 14:11:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion is a way for people to make it through life and explain the unexplainable. People need a way through life with hope and belief. It's also a way to make people follow the rules and laws. Most of the things in the bible were made into laws in modern america and the fear of Hell is enough to make any christian to remember "thou shalt not steal". I am personally of a stanist religion but I was a christian for some time. And I do study up a bit just so I can poke fun at those still clinging to their story book and fear of a firey eternity in Hell.
2006-11-16 14:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by Puck 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is an organized way of thinking and acting Religion and Religious is what I define as the people who crucifed Christ. They were supposedly "religious" I hate when people say that christianity is a religion. That offends me.
2006-11-16 14:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by SUMMER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a system used to connect the living with the spiritual. Everything beyond that is in a book some where.
2006-11-16 14:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by Odindmar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is the belief in some kind of supra natural force or spirit that is in the control of our lives and the universe...
Religions were born when people wanted to find an answer to the things happening arond them...such as death....earthquakes.....thunders...etc
2006-11-16 14:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by pdrfer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In scientific term, Its a belief based on myth and fantasized reality. Its a shared norms required to hold society together or create a boundary of whats good and whats bad, each of which is understood as a "given".
2006-11-16 14:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by savio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way I define any word.
2006-11-16 14:04:11 · answer #7 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is a definition I like very much:
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."
That was said by James, in James 1:27.
2006-11-16 14:05:00 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's the abstract idea humans came up with to explain why they are here today and where they will go when they die. Humans need answers, it is in their nature. So religion gives them all the answers to the unknown......that is why very religious people reject science/evolution- they want to believe in their faith to the extreme of rejecting facts.
2006-11-16 15:12:03 · answer #9 · answered by bree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1: Cult - an unpopular set of beliefs held by the minority of the populace.
2. Religion- One of several popular and current belief system that are held by the majority of the populace.
3. Mythology - One of several once popular and now antiquated belief systems once held by the majority of the populace.
2006-11-16 14:03:47 · answer #10 · answered by rache001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion = way of life.
Everyone has a religion. Everyone has a way of life for themselves.
For some it may be through a deity, or holy book of some sort,
For some it may be through their community.
For some through their church.
For some through there jesus, or prophet, or great teacher, or Lama.
For some through there family.
For some through friends.
For some through there philosophy.
For others it may be through themselves.
The point is everyone has "a Way of Life" for themselves.
And religion imeans a way of life.
Relgion is way of life.
Athiests have a way of life.
Everyone has some sort of way of life for
themselves.
People try to complicate things, but this is all
religion is.
2006-11-16 14:08:10 · answer #11 · answered by Thomas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋