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Quote by: Kuldeep  Not making the word religion complicated I could understand from OP that xJesterx wants simply to know could a world social system exist without any of the known religions.
My straight forward answer is a big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. The main reason is society's deep roots of beliefs in some or the other system. But with help of rationality and un-biased mind world's humanity could have humanity as the universal religion since, nobody would have difficulty to agree that we all are human only. |
You misinterpreted. He means can an individual truly have no religion even if they claim they don't.
The answer of course is yes, they can have no religion. Unless you trivialize the word religion so that it applies to anything, then yes you can have no religion. I have no religion. I attend no church, believe in no dogma or scripture, do not believe in a humanized creator (ie: god), etc.
Some people might say I have a religion and claim that my scripture is scientific documents and my spiritual leaders are scientists etc. This is of course, bollocks, and is an example of trivializing the word religion so that it can apply to totally irrelevant things.
I remember we had a big discussion a while back where people tried to prove that Atheism was a religion by using those tactics. Of course, atheism is not a religion unless mathematics is a religion, and altruism is a religion.