Religion is any specific system of belief about deity, often involving rituals, a code of ethics, a philosophy of life, and a worldview.
A religion is the organized set of beliefs that encode a person's or group's attitudes toward, and understanding of, the essence or nature of reality.
The English word "religion" is derived from the Middle English "religioun" which came from the Old French "religion." It may have been originally derived from the Latin word "religo" which means "good faith," "ritual," and other similar meanings. Or it may have come from the Latin "religãre" which means "to tie fast."
Defining the word "religion" is fraught with difficulty. All of the definitions that we have encountered contain at least one deficiency:
Some exclude beliefs and practices that many people passionately defend as religious. For example, their definition might include belief in a God or Goddess or combination of Gods and Goddesses who are responsible for the creation of the universe and for its continuing operation. This excludes such non-theistic religions as Buddhism and many forms of religious Satanism which have no such belief.
Some definitions equate "religion" with "Christianity," and thus define two out of every three humans in the world as non-religious.
Some definitions are so broadly written that they include beliefs and areas of study that most people do not regard as religious. For example, David Edward's definition would seem to include cosmology and ecology within his definition of religion -- fields of investigation that most people regard to be a scientific studies and non-religious in nature.
Some define "religion" in terms of "the sacred" and/or "the spiritual," and thus require the creation of two more definitions.
Sometimes, definitions of "religion" contain more than one deficiency.
2007-04-12 09:42:26
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answered by Angel****1 6
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I agree with the Vedic scriptures that dharma and aharma are absolutely a part of all systems of belief. I would say that human beings have turned these essential qualities into dogmatic teachings rather than allowing people to behave in a way that actually comes quite naturally to them. I don't believe we need dogma, we just need a little nudge in the right direction.
2007-04-12 09:33:42
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answered by Yogini 6
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Religion is anything thing you believed in, and practice with devotion, then you are devote to your own religion, which can become also a doctrine, when someone can well enough believe in what you do, been correct. God don't need a religion, But religion was giving to man, because we all became sinners, and then we became Non-believers of God Words, (Jesus), and then because we kill him, and we try to mocked his Son. Religion was invented by such acts, that show Inhuman behaviors, ignorance and also inferiority, lesser mental Evolution!!!, that hasn't allow many to become more intelligent, beings in our own right, and perfect not only our human senses, but perfect our physicality, not just the material body, <
2007-04-12 09:41:56
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answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5
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Some people have their false hope! I guess you could call that a religion! Jesus Christ! is the only real Truth!!! And I believe in the whole truth,and nothing but the Truth,so help me God!!! That's kind of funny as having the Truth called a religion! Wow! Anybody that thinks Jesus Christ is a religion,is lost! He's trying to open their eyes,but most of them have been tricked so bad,that they've blinded themselves from the Truth!!
2007-04-12 10:04:13
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answered by ? 4
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Well there are various religions now so I don't know what you're talking about. And as others have said, Jesus is the only way!
2007-04-12 09:33:04
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answered by NR 3
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There is such a thing as religion, whether you believe it or not personally. People practice it, churches are built, it exists. Therefore, how can you deny that there is such a thing? Even if you don't believe it.
2007-04-12 09:33:01
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answered by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 4
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Religion is a man-made thing. A way to seperate and control eager to serve humans. The bottom line is serving God and a relationship with Him. Religion isn't the thing, faith is.
2007-04-12 09:33:10
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answered by Anonymous
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that's written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): 'Be no longer deceived; God isn't mocked: for in any way a guy sow, that shall he also gain. indexed below are some adult males and women who mocked God : John Lennon (Singer): some years before, for the duration of his interview with an ... American ... mag, he said: 'Christianity will end, it is going to disappear. i do no longer might want to argue about that. i'm particular. Jesus became ok, yet his matters were too ordinary, immediately we are better fashionable than Him' (1966). Lennon, after asserting that the Beatles were better fashionable than Jesus Christ, became shot six circumstances. Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ): in the course of the Presidential marketing campaign, he said if he were given 500,000 votes from his social gathering, no longer even God ought to get rid of him from Presidency. effective he were given the votes, yet he were given ill an afternoon before being made President, then he died. Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet): for the duration of A practice in Canecio (Rio de Janeiro), at the same time as smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:'God, it really is for you.' He died on the age of 32 of LUNG maximum cancers in a terrible way. the guy who equipped the large After the form of huge, a reporter requested him how threat-free the large should be. With an ironic tone he said: 'no longer even God can sink it' the outcome: i imagine you all comprehend what occurred to the large Marilyn Monroe (Actress) She became visited by using Billy Graham for the duration of a presentation of a convention. He said the Spirit of God had despatched him to evangelise to her. After listening to what the Preacher had to assert, she said: 'i do not favor your Jesus'. a week later, she became discovered lifeless in her position of abode Bon Scott (Singer) The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one among his 1979 songs he sang: 'do not end me; i'm taking place each and each and every of ways, down the street to hell'. on the nineteenth of February 1980, Bon Scott became discovered lifeless, he were choked by using his own vomit.
2016-11-23 15:22:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Doesn't seem to me that you are asking a question you want an answer to ,,,. but just looking for an endless debate ,,,,
What possible difference could it make to you what others believe ,,,, You can't make decisions for anyone else let alone live their lives for them ,,,, So what's your point and the bottom line to all of this ?,,,,
You question ,,,, If that's what it is ,,,, is moot ,,,,
2007-04-12 09:35:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Religion is man's answer to the question:
"What or whom will I worship?"
So yes, Hindu falls under the category of a religion. But I believe it is a false religion.
God bless.
2007-04-12 09:32:50
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answered by Veritas 7
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