Philippa Carter (@PhilippaCarter) has her PhD in Religious Studies, is a professor within McMaster’s Society, Culture & Religion degree program, and teaches a course called, “What on Earth is Religion?” Yet there is no simple answer to this straightforward question. The conversation ranges from religions to cults, philosophies, creeds, and worldviews, with stops at free expression and secularism along the way.
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I know this one! Oh, oh, pick me, pick me! A religion is a worldview predicated on belief; a worldview based on logic, reason and evidence is not a religion... Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist!
ReplyDeleteAs for Secularism, defined as state neutrality in matters of religion, being imposed Protestant lndividualism, l'm afraid that it's WEIRD Individualism that led to Protestantism, not the other way around:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World
Finally, Calvinist/Presbyterian Blue Laws belie the assertion that Protestants have no interest in imposing their beliefs on others in both a figurative and literal public square...