On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 16:34, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Tim Fairchild wrote: > > I 'believe' in religious tollerance and if they want to call it a > > religion or an "applied religious philosophy" then it's fine with me. I > > don't see it as a big deal. A lot of people on the net, such as those > > supporting religious tollerance, call it a religion, even tho they are > > not scientologists... But getting OT a bit :) > > I think that if you look through the listing of US religions you won't > find Scientology, and I'm positive you won't find Raelism. Being
I see scientology listed on some sites as a US religion. I haven't looked for any official status. > tolerant of other people's faiths is not the same as redefining what > words mean. I can't say that the Greeks were monotheist because the word > monotheist has a meaning that doesn't apply to them. > > > But what about a belief system > > like voodoo? What about the Inuit? Do they have a religion? What about > > the Australian Aboriginal? > > I don't know much about those, so I can't comment. Ah well. I was just trying to work out where you drew the line between religion and non-religion. Just my own curiousity and not really important. Many 'religions' involve spirit beings (often animal based) or ancestor worship and so forth... Not necessarily a deity, but with rituals and a belief system and code of conduct and so forth, which is what religion is really about - a code of conduct to keep people from breaking laws and so forth, plus rituals to aid in coping with sesonal changes, when to plant and so forth in early society... tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim & Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------- Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf ---------------------------------------------------------
