religion

Islam

ology (the study of)

astrology

theology

redemption

literature

myth

cult

Christianity

salvation

pick-up line

hell

religion - science

science

hip hop

medicine

antivaxxer

fanaticism

belief in god

monotheism

cannibalism

catholicism

abortion

pro-choice

pro-life

right wing

religious freedom

critical reading

is a 'noncognitive relation to a non-human person'.

Rorty defines religion as a 'noncognitive relation to a non-human person'.

is a 'system' which is to say a grouping of symbols that hang together in a stable set of relationships, like a language.

First, according to Geertz, religion is 'a system of symbols.' Symbols are 'tangible' and 'perceptible' things that stand in for abstractions such as 'ideas, attitudes, judgments, longings, or beliefs.' Examples include everything from the written number '6' to the cross in Christianity. But Geertz also says that a religion is a 'system,' so it is a grouping of symbols that hang together in a stable set of relationships, like a language.

is an illusory happiness in a distorted mode of existence that has need of illusions to provide happiness. To move beyond religion is to move beyond that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. Karl Marx

is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

is a conclusion for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

is a dense and total phenomenon that envelops man in his social being and subjective complexity, implicating social institutions as much as consciousness.

For Geertz, religion is a dense and total phenomenon that envelops man in his social being and subjective complexity, implicating social institutions as much as consciousness.

is a detestable, cruel history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind... and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel. Thomas Paine

is a disease born of fear and a source of untold misery to the human race. It's only two goods are the calendar and the charting of the night sky.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

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