Is anyone excluded from religion? (read the details before posting)?

Question

Religion - A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=religion&gwp=13

Before you say atheist here is my take on it, and some resources:

Atheism seems to be a widely followed religion today. If you go to http://ffrf.org/index2.php you will notice many similarities between atheism and other religions. Non-profit, just want to "spread the word" to the "uninformed masses", fighting the government to teach what we believe, tax-exempt membership fee, a "newspaper".

Atheism - The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
http://www.answers.com/topic/atheism
Doctrine - A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.
http://www.answers.com/doctrine

Maybe an Agnostic that isn't zealous and simply has the knowledge that he/she doesn't know and doesn't care to prove he is right, or care what you believe.

Answer 1

Your definition of religion is wrong. Faith in the supernatural is part of religion, as all of the other definitions you ignored point out.

Zeal is not a requirement. When I'm hungry, I eat with great zeal, does that make me a Foodist monk?

So to answer the main question: people who don't believe in the supernatural are excluded from religion.

Answer 2

A famous Supreme Court ruling once was forced to give the definition of the word "all" in relation to a matter of social inclusion. They came up with the simple statement that follows: "ALL includes EVERYONE, and EXCLUDES no one." Meaning in the case of your question, that by the laws of the land, people are afforded the freedom of the range of their religious beliefs without segregation, or exclusion. If people are separated, it's by their own choice. Though the Bible speaks of us as Christians coming "....out from the world and being a separate people", it's not meaning that we're to form an exclusive club, for if that were the case, Christ couldn't have made the claim to be the penultimate sacrifice for ALL SIN for ALL TIME and we'd still be living under OT law and making animal sacrifice for our atonement. We are to be "seperate" from our sins as a new creature in Christ, which is afforded to ALL mankind by His death, burial and resuurection and our OBEDIENCE of His salvation plan and lving a sanctified life thereafter.

Answer 3

I don't have to read all your letter to see where you are coming from. There is not much difference between religion, or athisets, Do you know why, Religion can be anything, But True Salvation is a whole lot different than religion, You tell atheists about salvation, that makes them scrume. If you talk religion, It don't get to them as much. Because you are not telling them the truth. Everyone in their lifetime will be faced with Salvation, When it came my way in 1970, I accepted it. & I love it.

Answer 4

For me, it is not ordinary to study something out of a e book and t;chicken have faith it particularly is genuine. it relatively is our technology. i think it particularly is plausible if it relatively is how i ought to assert it. who's to assert that we are all incorrect? This masy sound like a classic argument from an atheist, yet i in simple terms in simple terms have faith that in step with probability we're not suposed to understand. once you're a physically powerful guy or woman becasue you're apprehensive of a God it relatively is undesirable. once you're a physically powerful guy or woman on the grounds which you do no longer desire to circulate to hell. it relatively is slightly extra useful, yet you're letting worry administration you. perhaps i did no longer mean that by using fact i'm slightly at a loss for words as I write this. perhaps an afterlife must be dealt with after our life is over? locate different reasons to be a physically powerful guy or woman. Mine is by using the fact I study a e book that suggested that life is acceptable to the alternative between good and evil. i think undesirable to be evil understanding that. i think of i seek for philosophies no longer ideals. From my viewpoint, i'm happy there are people who do no longer think of like me. in the event that all of them theory like me or anybody believed in each and all of the comparable, chaos could quickly erupt. the diversities in life is what keeps all balanced. With in simple terms wide-spread, human beings could circulate loopy; human beings do no longer inevitably like wide-spread.

Answer 5

(2 Peter 3:9) Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.

ALL TO ATTAIN.....
Jehovah's way or the highway...
No room here for multiple styles of worship.

Answer 6

atheist and it is not a religion