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PathwayMachine · M
Oxford dictionary defines religion as a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. So, when people assume that to be religious you have to have something to do with associating with a specific group of people, or have a god, or practice some specific set of rituals they are only narrowing their understanding of what it means to be religious. Probably half of the organized religions are atheistic. Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, whereas others leave it up to the individual, like Scientology and Hinduism. Even with other religions like Judaism, Shinto and Christianity many of the adherents don't believe in a god but attend for social, traditional, or other reasons, including financial. It's about community.
I personally believe that everyone is religious in this sense, so while I consider myself religious in that way I have never and would never belong to any organized religious or political group.
I personally believe that everyone is religious in this sense, so while I consider myself religious in that way I have never and would never belong to any organized religious or political group.