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Originally Posted by PubFather
True - but religion implies a non-rational basis for belief. Or rather that you are guided by faith and belief, rather than pure reason.
I'm not suggesting that all religious people have had their reasoning faculties removed... simply that faith is a bigger component of religion than it is for a belief in humanism, for example... We know that humanism is just a theory but its one that we chose to follow because - using reason and judgement - we think it is correct..
Religions also tend to have a "reward/sanction" structure. Whether its a bevy of virgins or Satan - whereas non-religious belief structures don't have this.
There is a very real distinction between religion and idealogy/philosophy
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True enough but you've got to remember, there is no logical answer or approach to the questions of God, Gods or lack thereof, since you can't provide any real evidence either way and you certainly can't prove it either way. The logical answer is "how the hell should I know?" followed by "why the hell should I care anyway?" but the last part is my tilt on things, minus the swearing (I am Australian after all).