Life after Death (SD Classic, 6 Dec 2007)

[Bryan_Ekers]

Then I have to admit your original point has escaped me, because I know I wasn’t trying to be funny.

[Traditional_Catholic]

@Bryan Ekers

That’s like saying “no” is a type of left-handedness, because “no” is a valid answer to the question “Are you left-handed?” By this standard, anything becomes a religion. A high-school geography teacher is actively promoting understanding of geography - therefore geography is his religion.

If the geography teacher claims that geography answers religious questions, such as the location of Heaven, then geography is a religion for him or her. The idea that Secular Humanism is a religion is not based on the fact that many of its adherents seek to convert other people to Secular Humanism; rather, it is considered a religion because of the fact that it provides answers to religious questions.

[Fear_Itself]

@Traditional_Catholic

The idea that Secular Humanism is a religion is not based on the fact that many of its adherents seek to convert other people to Secular Humanism; rather, it is considered a religion because of the fact that it provides answers to religious questions.

By that over-broad definition, physics and biology are religions as well.