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::Personally I'm not a big fan of the broad brush stroke used to paint the religion picture. By the definitions given, being pro-abortion could be considered to be a religion. I feel, personally, we should have stuck to the primary definition. Religion should have something to do with belief in God (gods) or the supernatural. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:18, 10 September 2007 (EDT)
::Personally I'm not a big fan of the broad brush stroke used to paint the religion picture. By the definitions given, being pro-abortion could be considered to be a religion. I feel, personally, we should have stuck to the primary definition. Religion should have something to do with belief in God (gods) or the supernatural. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:18, 10 September 2007 (EDT)
:: The question of disbelief in the supernatural for an atheist does not enter his or her mind when making a choice. There is no WWJD thought that happens to an atheist, and thus that disbelief does not strongly influence his or her thoughts - there is no "because I am an atheist, the right thing to do is this." If the person is a secular humanist, then there is something - but not all atheists are secular humanists. Thus, with this definition, atheism and agnosticism are not religions while Buddhism (being debated elsewhere as a philosophy or not) is. --[[User:Rutm|Rutm]] 15:32, 10 September 2007 (EDT)