When does a belief structure become a religion?
14 Answers to "When does a belief structure become a religion?"
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I think most religions are fear-ba
sed....so once they start preying on your fears, putting the 'fear of God' into you, to make you do their bidding, that is when it's an official religion..... Like (3)
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When you can use yours to make anothers "wrong"
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I'd say
-when there's a gathering of people in one place who share the belief .
-when the people gathered have a specific method of worship that they all partake in together.
-when the people who belief then spread out and start communicating that belief with other people in a sincere mass effort to benefit others lives with the truth as they know it.
-when the people give those sets of beliefs and practices a name.Like (2)
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I'm really not sure. My belief system does feel a bit like a religion because it is so rational (not that I've ever heard of a rational religion - lol). But it's not really a religion as the word is understood, because it does not involve a deity that has any power over me or my life.
My worldview CRASHED (big time) in 1984. I had to put a new worldview together. I was not up to the task, so I had to educate myself. I wanted the new worldview to be fact-based so that it would never fail me again.
It's very hard to explain the difference between my life before the crash and my life today. The word "embrace" keeps coming to mind, but I don't know how to explain it.Like (2)
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I'm curious to know more about why you think of your belief system as a religion.Like (1)
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Only because it's like a rule-book of sorts. I am no longer swayed by emotions, having largely put them behind me. This is very different from the religious who depend on them even though I have discovered that they give faulty answers ALL of the time. Still, I have rules that I have taken the time to test, and as they work, I follow them. This gives the APPEARANCE of a religion, and it behaves like a religion, without being a religion. Perhaps I should call it an anti-religion?
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When one obsesses over it to the point of excluding other thoughts.
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Well said!
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When people don't understand what the spiritual masters are saying and misinterpret it. It's like handing the keys to a space shuttle over to a native tribe somewhere on an island and saying "Here guys. have at it."
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When it has written either written texts or rehearsed rituals and when it acquires some level of bureaucracy.
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When you can put aside your real job and live on the proceeds from your "religion".
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Lol. But you have a good point!!!!Like (1)
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:)
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when it gathers critical mass and gathers enough resources to expand
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Following, practicers,
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When the country the cult is stationed in sanctions it as such.
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When there are to many rules and they arent worshipping the way the first churches were.
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when people begin following the belief structure
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What if it is their own belief structure?
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there was a tiger who got lost and stayed with goats since birth. do you know the tiger ate only leaves and would meekly play with goats. sameway an elephant's leg is tied to a chain by the guide and a 700plus kg elephant believes it cannot remove the chain. we are in man made problems where we behave similar to non-speaking animal
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Posted by ecpc Jun 11th, 2012 at 11:11AM
When it becomes profitable.
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Reply by toistory Jun 11th, 2012 at 12:02PM
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