I think of the word religion as coming from the latin "religio" like he said, but to me that means a ligament, a binding one back to our source, our origins, and the stories, knowledge and wisdom that supports that, helping society to adhere to that relationship.

So, with that, one could consider science and astronomy, especially the thirty meter telescope that strives to look backward toward the moments after the big bang, to be a religious endeavor.

I don't believe a religion needs to have any supernatural deity or element. Humanism can be a religion, with my definition, if it cultivates and nurtures our human values, the core and source of our humanity.

Good clip it got me thinking about the jokers speech in batman where he talks about people needing a plan otherwise they just go crazy.

Religion is necessary for those who can't burden themselves constructive thought

Very informative

I think that most people, despite insisting otherwise, would define 'religion' by their actions as: the supreme form of reverence for something, at least thought to be, good, right, or true.

    For instance, many "god-fearing" people are 100 times more religious about their sports teams and brandnames than any genuine conviction one could imagine being given to reading scriptures, attending services, or even just practicing what they preach.

It is a natural phenomenon. Something seems real, so it is treated as real until overwhelming evidence to the contrary presents itself. We all saw the overwhelming evidence, and at times we are confronted with more, compelling those of us rational(and brave) enough to consider the possibility that we might occasionally be mistaken about the things we thought we knew so well.

Seemingly intelligent dude wasting his entire life, IMO.

Religion has been defined for a long time. *"Definition of religion

1a : the state of a religious a nun in her 20th year of religion
b(1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural
(2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance."* From the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

For some people an attempt has been made to muddy the waters and make the definition of religion complex. It's a way of pushing a dogma on a tribe without making it seem like religion. A woman I worked with at a city park once tole me her church was not religion. She had been brainwashed into thinking that if her church is not one of the mainstream organized religions it was not religion. She actually believed this and I believed her as I had heard a report that this was being attempted. What is a religion in the US? Ask the IRS!!!

Looks like that QB bloke has blocked me. Wonder why?

Nice one Skado. Set the feathers ruffling!

No need to see video, all religions are BULLSHIT!

Thank you Skado. That was a brilliant explanation of ‘religion’ and as to why the word religion is a made up, academic term that doesn’t really mean anything at all. Hopefully that will put a lid on some of the nonsense which is propounded here!

So basically the young man is saying that the definition of the word religion is not clearly defined, and admits of enough subjectivity to require a different usage to be assigned for each user.

Apart from the obvious, (That that is something which applies to every word, and that people who think the meanings of words are of any real value in themselves, and that people should not be invited to define their usages, are complete time wasters. ) You have to wonder what sort of cave, in what sort of far distant jungle, removed from all human contact, the young man has been living in, if he thinks that this is not obvious to everyone who considers it.

Ah, Emile Durkheim, nothing like a bit of social anomie to get the old grey matter working

Religion ... pure and faultless is this: to help widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption. James 1:27