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How come Confucius teachings sounds much better than the 3 Abrahamic religions ?

Kulindahr said:
No, calling it one doesn't make it one -- it's what people do with it. When people wrap up their whole lives in sports, take their solace from sports, rest their well-being on sports, they're making a religion of it.
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Yes, they are making it a religion but it is not a religion.

Many people wrap their lives around the company they work for, is it a religion?
 
Telstra said:
Many people called sport a religion doesn't make it a religion.
But it is similar to religion, it got rituals, followers, communities, social events ... etc.


Anyway, religion should be defined as anything to do with supernatural is a religion.
And the heads of all religions are always supernatural like "god" or the "higher power".
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Not so -- you just eliminated Buddhism and ancestor worship as religions.
 
Christopher Hitchens said North Korea system is a religion but it is not. It is a dictatorship system like religion.
 
Telstra said:
They believe in the "supernatural" therefore it is a religion.
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There are (and have been) many schools and sects of Buddhism practiced across a number of countries by a variety of social classes...so I wouldn't say there isn't an element, in some cases, of supernaturalist thought in a broader Buddhist context.

But generally speaking, no, Buddhists are not supernaturalists.

The idea that religion should equal supernaturalism is an oversimplification. It may suit the criticisms you wish to advance, but I don't think it allows for the best account of what religion is.
 
Buddhists believe in spirits.
Spirits are unproven claims ...
 
Telstra said:
Buddhists believe in spirits.
Spirits are unproven claims ...
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For some, this is a folk practice, but it's not Buddhism. Belief in spirits may coincide with Buddhism, but it doesn't come from it.
 
I stick to the definition of religion that appeared in WEBSTER'S. All this other stuff is bull plop.
 
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