[Discuss] Another Take on Religion

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James wrote:

> Yes, that's nice.  But virtually all of Buddhisms followers (if not all) 
> will tell you that it is not a religion.  It's not a few whack jobs who 
> say it.  And the very defination of religion is "the belief in and 
> worship of a god or gods, or any such system of belief and worship".  
> Which makes Godless-religion an oxymoron.

funny how some version of buddhism in japan had the equivalent of jihads 
and crusades a few centuries ago. then again some of them monks get 
married (concubines even) have children and eat meat, etc. good trick.. 
you get paid, if someone does something you don't fancy, you label them 
as the enemy/heretic and call for insurrection. applies to every 
religion at some point of course :)