How about substituting "beliefs" for "religion?"

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Agnostics would not give you a firm answer as you suggest.

Yes and no.

I did not mean to slight the agnostics among us. The answer that maybe God is, is also appropriate.

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You are evidently using the term "religion" in a very restrictive sense, meaning an organized religion. I was using it in the much broader sense of beliefs. No deity required. Nothing supernatural -- just "beliefs" that are not subject to rational proof or verification.
You may reject the supernatural, but that is still a "belief". You cannot "prove" that the supernatural does not exist. You may live your life in the light of your belief, but it remains, merely, a belief.

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Good thing martureo isn't here....
He would be flipping out about these changing definitions....

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belief =/= faith =/= religion.

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An assertion upon which we disagree, respectfully.

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You cannot prove that Russell's Teapot does not exist.

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An excellent review of the relationships between faith, reason and superstition, can be found here: Pope John Paul II: Faith and reason .

One may not wish to read a religionist perspective, but to ignore it is to hobble on one leg not recognizing why one plods so.

Mr. Wojtyła's tsunami of balderdash can safely be ignored without any perceptible loss. H.L. Mencken describes this sort of thing as "the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing" What is worth knowing, however, is that according to the Vatican guidelines on exorcism issued in 1999, “the person who claims to be possessed must be evaluated by doctors to rule out a mental or physical illness.”

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You are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts.

Thank you for your typically deep analysis.

Very superficial actually, commensurate with the subject matter. Those who need more to be reminded that the Roman Catholic Church with its centuries of charlatanry has little or no credibility on any subject are simply not familiar with the church's history of violent depraved criminality, suppression of truth and foisting of falsehoods.

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You are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts.

My 'belief' is based on scientific knowledge which is subject to change or revision with new discoveries. In what universe is that in any way similar to religious beliefs?

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- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

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