Who wants to discuss with me about definations of religion?

Ok.. Here are the defintions:

1. Religion… Recognition on the part of man (humans) of some higher unseen power as having control of their destiny, and as being entitled to obedience, reverance, and worship; the general mental and moral attuide resulting from this belief, with reference to it’s effect upon the individual or the community; personal or general acceptance or this feeling as a standard of spiritual and pratical life.

2. Defining religion is bit like trying to define faith. But for our purposes, a religion is a set of personal and social beliefs which have two main characteristics: a deep concearn with the ultimate meaning of human existance; and an indentification with a supernatural power beyond the limits of the human and natuarl world.

3. Religion is opium of the masses

4. Religion is a system of beliegs and pratices by means of which group of people struggles with the ultimate problems of life.

5. religion is the human response to whatever the answer to the mystery of life for a particular person. It is an attempt to express a relationship to that answer. It encompasses both these whose response is found in a God answer and those whose response in a no-God answer, because both responses are based on faith.

6. Religion is not a thing apart. It cannot be placed in a compartment. It is a part of life and will be found wherever people gather in societies.

7. religion is whatever the individual takes to be his (or her) ultimate concearn…the point where a (person) has the conviction that there are values in human existance worth living and dying for.

8. Science and mathematics unravel the problems of the universe; religion responds of the mystery of the universe.

9. Religion is a port in the storms of life

10. Since the word religion is misleading…we should replace it by two seperate concepts: 1. Cummulative tradition ie the historical deposit of the past religious life of the community in question: temples, scriptures, theological systems, dance patterns, legal and other social instituation, conventions, moral codes, myths, and so on,

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2. The living reality of human experience called faith.

3. Religion is a drug…does the same as pot, but it’s cheaper.

4. Religion is the whole complexus of attuides, convictions, emotions, gestures, rituals, beliefs and instituations by which we come to terms with, and express, our most fundamental relationship with Reality (God and the created order, percieved as coming forth from God’s creative hand).

5. Religion (is) the immediately visible forms of churches and temples, sacred acts and persons set apart to perform them.

6. religion is primarily an attempt to explain the unknown. This does not mean that religion is simply a cover for our ignorance. Rather it means that religion comes into its own when we come up against the limits of human experience, the boundaries of our everyday life and thought. It is an attempt to solve the riddles of life and death, to answer the ‘ultimate questions’. Religion is the human attempt to pierce the veil of mystery that some refer to as God.