Just before this thread dives into throwing apples and oranges at each other.

What is a "religion"?

There are many very different dimensions

• believing in higher beings/deities
• ethical behavior (commandments like "don't kill" to "don't fart drive cars" )
• political impact (e.g. cast system or using priests as functionaries or seeing a king as gods representative )
• adopted traditions (from Christmas trees to female circumcision)
• ethnic group thru strict endogamy *

@Erix: Darwin didn't solve the problem of the watchmaker, and Kant proved long ago that there can't be any proof either way.

Instead of discussing the badly defined R-word we should concentrate on aspects affecting our past and future - especially in a globalized world.

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