A “religion,” is not just the notion of “God” or a Creator. A religion is a world view, systemic understand of our place in the Cosmos, where we came from and where we are going. A religion has a set of core beliefs, and a priesthood to propagate and protect the beliefs. The major religions have have a core set of written texts that provide the intellectual foundation for that religions.
These are obvious in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and even Buddhism . They have priests, holy writings, ceremonies, and easily identified leaders and formal structures.
But there is one religion that stands over all the religions in this age, and it the one religion that does not call itself a religion. It is the religion that has, with subtlety, reduced all other religions beneath itself by taking upon itself the presumption that it stands outside and above religions. It imposes, almost unconsciously, on the world the idea that it cannot be questioned (as religions MUST not be questioned, for questioning the faith is to be anathema. This Not Religion is, after all , a faith. If one choses not to believe, they are not off the faith, not of the faithful, and not of the truth).
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