Flat Earth Kyle
Well-Known Member
According to your belief.
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Everyone, whether they choose to admit it or not is religious.
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According to your belief.
Flat Earth Kyle
Well-Known Member
I already stated yes
Draka
Wonder Woman
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
they'll keep on singing it
they'll sing it just because
Commoner
Headache
I'm not going to read the whole thread, let me just point out the obvious logical flaw in this conclusion. That religion is a belief, opinion, etc. does not make an opinion religion or religious. Just like a square being a rectangle doesn't make a rectangle a square.
Your argument is equivalent to saying that all rectangles are squares, (whether they choose to admit it or not). Fail.
Nah....it's just an idle observation...not something I "believe" in.
Flat Earth Kyle
Well-Known Member
So you are just stating a bunch of stuff you don't believe in? Wow, that sounds credible.
Flat Earth Kyle
Well-Known Member
A religion is any system of beliefs that one uses to guide their life.
Me Myself
Back to my username
I do it all the time. It´s quite refreshing actually
wayward_teen
Beautiful Disaster
Your definition is invalid because it is way too broad. According to you, socialism (Any of various economic and political philosophies that support social equality, collective decision-making, distribution of income based on contribution and public ownership of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists) is a religion. So is cynicism, another well known philosophical belief.
If that was really true, every single person's individual set of beliefs would be a religion. You have not qualified that religions must be organized with this definition either, so there must certainly be billions and billions and billions of religions out there by you.
McBell
Unbound
hmmm...
wait for it...
damn.
sorry, still not convinced.
Perhaps you just have not said it enough times...?
McBell
Unbound
Draka
Wonder Woman
Yes, it appears he does. It appears, by his own definition, it is a part of his religion to cherry pick and distort definitions in order to fit what he wants words to mean and then present this fabricated definition as some fact that everyone is supposed to accept. His religion tells him to twist, cherry pick, lie, distort and stick his fingers in his ears and close his eyes when evidence is presented which proves him wrong. Wait...I guess that does fit with certain religions doesn't it? :areyoucra
Commoner
Headache
That doesn't follow from the definitions you provided, nor is it used as such. Furthermore, it's not useful, we already have a term for "system of belief" - it's "system of belief" (or "belief system"). The only reason to use the word "religion" is to differentiate some systems of beliefs from others - namely, the religious ones from the non-religious ones (such as philosophical and ideological).
Again, by arguing that any system of beliefs is "religion", you've done nothing more than made "religion" synonymous with "belief system", just as you could claim that "square" is synonymous with "rectangle". Doesn't help the argument, becuase the "square" and the "rectangle" are still two different things, but now you need another word for "square" and have two synonymous words to use to describe "rectangle". Your argument is therefore reduced to semantics, but the distinction between the "square" and the "rectangle" still exists and so does the distinction between different types of belief systems. Fail.
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I like this game.
He'd say that his mother is part of the human race.
A definition of "man" is to be human.
Therefore, his mother is a man.
It sounds like all men & women are men.
Hmmmm....this might be a useful argument over in one of those threads about whether or not homosexuality is natural.
blackout
Violet.
While yaddoe's bottom line definition of what constitutes a religion
seems overly simplistic to everyone? here,
I would like to point out that defining religion,
the qualifications of religion
is something that almost no one could agree about
when I asked the question some time back.
Apparently it's not as cut and dry
(ie, agreement on "what is religion")
as so many of you would seem to think.
... or maybe I'm wrong......
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/religious-debates/119871-what-religion.html
seems overly simplistic to everyone? here,
I would like to point out that defining religion,
the qualifications of religion
is something that almost no one could agree about
when I asked the question some time back.
Apparently it's not as cut and dry
(ie, agreement on "what is religion")
as so many of you would seem to think.
... or maybe I'm wrong......
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/religious-debates/119871-what-religion.html
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Commoner
Headache
All men and women are men, it all comes from the same rib after all...
Commoner
Headache
No, I agree completely, it's hard to pin down. I mean, so is "well-being", for instance, but we don't therefore conclude that any form of existence is "well-being", which would be analogous to what yaddoe is doing. His argument isn't that it's hard to define religion, it isn't even that a religion could be anything. It's that anything/everything (any opinion, belief, etc...) is religion - and that's clearly false.
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Flat Earth Kyle
Well-Known Member
Very interesting poll. It seems everyone's definition is different.
Here's the definition at dictionary.com:
Your use of the term doesn't match this definition. It doesn't apply to most atheists.