UU is one group I happen to know well enough to expect that its members do in fact advocate good works on the basis of good works being a good thing, so if it’s a counterexample, that’s easy. But if it isn’t because it isn’t actually a religion, OK.
I think something similar is true of Congregationalists, from my limited experience of them… but then, all the Congregationalists I’ve known well enough to ask have identified themselves as agnostics and atheists, so perhaps they don’t count either.
But I have a clearer notion of what your category is now; thank you for the clarification.
Does it seem to you that you and Ritalin (in the comment I replied to) mean the same thing by “religion”?
Well, that’s why I’m asking the question.
UU is one group I happen to know well enough to expect that its members do in fact advocate good works on the basis of good works being a good thing, so if it’s a counterexample, that’s easy. But if it isn’t because it isn’t actually a religion, OK.
I think something similar is true of Congregationalists, from my limited experience of them… but then, all the Congregationalists I’ve known well enough to ask have identified themselves as agnostics and atheists, so perhaps they don’t count either.
But I have a clearer notion of what your category is now; thank you for the clarification.
Does it seem to you that you and Ritalin (in the comment I replied to) mean the same thing by “religion”?
I can’t speak for Ritalin, but I’d speculate that we’d both identify it as requiring certain patterns of belief as well as affiliation.