Reply #74: Religion

[aneerkoinos]

Yes, omnipotent all-knowing beings, invisible or not, defy logic. I must admit I'm not familiar with the debate you refer to, but defining religion by belief appears circular to me and not very revealing about religion as social phenomenon or about the psychological basic 'religious experience'. It is also not the definition comparative study of religion uses, today that scientific community tends to utilize family resemblance instead of analytical definition to define the object of their study.

If you want to stick to your definition, by all means, but then you must admit that according to it e.g. Buddhism is not religion, but science/philosophy.