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"'''Religion'''" refers to a set of core beliefs upon which people base their lives, usually involving a deep personal commitment, dedication, devotion, even variant degrees of '''[[insanity|worship]]''', emotionally and mentally, of something or someone, which may or may not be a [[Other gods|deity]], or even [[God]] the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]].   

"'''Religion'''" refers to a set of core beliefs upon which people base their lives, usually involving a deep personal commitment, dedication, devotion, even variant degrees of '''[[worship]]''', emotionally and mentally, of something or someone, which may or may not be a [[Other gods|deity]], or even [[God]] the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]].   

 

For [[Christians]], the Bible teaches the triune nature of man, and Jesus said the greatest commandment in the Old Testament was to love God with all your heart, all your [[mind]] and all your [[soul]]. The Christian religion employs the use of [[logic]] (yeah right) and [[faith]] (at least you're honest). Morality has often historically been based on religion (dipsh1ts), but many movements such as the [[secular humanism|secular humanists]] hold that morality does not depend on religion, and secular views of morality have existed as far back as ancient Greece.<ref>Humanism A new Religion. Simon and Schuster. pp. 64–69.</ref>  

For [[Christians]], the Bible teaches the triune nature of man, and Jesus said the greatest commandment in the Old Testament was to love God with all your heart, all your [[mind]] and all your [[soul]]. The Christian religion employs the use of [[logic]] and [[faith]]. Morality has often historically been based on religion, but many movements such as the [[secular humanism|secular humanists]] hold that morality does not depend on religion, and secular views of morality have existed as far back as ancient Greece.<ref>Humanism A new Religion. Simon and Schuster. pp. 64–69.</ref>  

== Criticism of classifying [[Christianity]] as a species of genus religion ==

== Criticism of classifying [[Christianity]] as a species of genus religion ==

There are scholars like [[Visser't Hooft]] who resist the notion of [[Christianity]] as a ''"species of the [[genus]] religion."'' He argues that Christianity is an ''"adequate and definitive [[Revelation (religion)|revelation]] of [[God]] in history,"'' that classifying Christianity as one expression of ''"a general phenomenon called religion is to set it in a framework which is foreign to its nature."'' In differentiating the world religions from the world of revelation, Jean Danielou says, ''"The worst misunderstanding of Christianity or of [[Judaism]] is to make them religions among other religions — the very error of [[syncretism]]."''<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book

There are scholars like [[Visser't Hooft]] who resist the notion of [[Christianity]] as a ''"species of the [[genus]] religion."'' He argues that Christianity is an ''"adequate and definitive [[Revelation (religion)|revelation]] of [[God]] in history,"'' that classifying Christianity as one expression of ''"a general phenomenon called religion is to set it in a framework which is foreign to its nature."'' In differentiating the world religions from the world of revelation, Jean Danielou says, ''"The worst misunderstanding of Christianity or of [[Judaism]] is to make them religions among other religions — the very error of [[syncretism]]."''<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book

|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?

|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?

|author=Some Pedophile

|author=Alan R. Tippet

|editors=Tetsunao Yamamori, Charles R. Taber  

|editors=Tetsunao Yamamori, Charles R. Taber  

|publisher=William-Carey Library

|publisher=William-Carey Library

|location=South Pasadena, California

|location=South Pasadena, California

|year=1975

|year=1975

|chapter=5:Formal Transformation and Faith Distortion LOL YOU FSCKS MUST BE MAD

|chapter=5:Formal Transformation and Faith Distortion

|pages=104, 117

|pages=104, 117

|isbn=0-87808-423-1

|isbn=0-87808-423-1

* [[Messianic Judaism]]

* [[Messianic Judaism]]

* [[Islam]]

* [[Islam]]

* [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]  

* [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]

* [[Judaism]]

* [[Judaism]]

* [[Rastafari movement]]

* [[Rastafari movement]]

* [[Sikhism]]

* [[Sikhism]]

* [[Zoroastrianism]]

* [[Zoroastrianism]]

=== Transtheistic religions ===

=== Transtheistic religions ===