It is true! This doesn't mean we don't criticise doctrine or recognise that it consistently inspires ppl to do awful things. https://twitter.com/SurlyCripple/status/830096355649482752 …
No, that's not supernatural tho. You'd need to sit down and write out a list of characteristics that combine to make a religion.
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And even then people will disagree. When I speak of religion, I'm talking abt faith-based systems including supernatural claims ...
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...morality, narratives about the meaning of life and afterlives, etc
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And yet we do know what we mean by religion. We are able to talk about them. List them. etc.
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I tend to avoid definition arguments. If people want to call atheism or feminism or evolution a religion, its pointless to argue.
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Was recently told I can't be an atheist if I'm not an anarchist, for example. Better to set out what it is I disbelieve in.
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