Maybe “religion” is like “schizophrenia”. We don’t know what schizophrenia really is, so we tend to call anything that makes someone really crazy “schizophrenia”.
Religion is not a well-defined category. There are things in it that don’t have much in common with other things in the category (Buddhism), and things not in it that have a lot in common with other things in it (Marxism, other ‘isms’, political affiliations)
Right. It’s basically a family association; different religions will share different things in common, but there’s no real core concept. If anything, I’d suggest “a system of principles and beliefs for living one’s life,” in which case, yes, rationalism would be a religion as well.
Maybe “religion” is like “schizophrenia”. We don’t know what schizophrenia really is, so we tend to call anything that makes someone really crazy “schizophrenia”.
Religion is not a well-defined category. There are things in it that don’t have much in common with other things in the category (Buddhism), and things not in it that have a lot in common with other things in it (Marxism, other ‘isms’, political affiliations)
Right. It’s basically a family association; different religions will share different things in common, but there’s no real core concept. If anything, I’d suggest “a system of principles and beliefs for living one’s life,” in which case, yes, rationalism would be a religion as well.