Then I have to admit your original point has escaped me, because I know I wasn’t trying to be funny.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By that over-broad definition, physics and biology are religions as well.