Thread:User talk:Armondikov/"You'll grow out of your rebellious phase."/reply (26)

The lack of a coherent definition of "religion" is a problem. But I think that ignores the fact that we grow up with a group of things that self-define as "religion". The set is learned, and so when we come up with a membership test we fail miserably at it. However, I don't think this stops us using "religion" in a meaningful way because they self-define as such.

So there are sets of beliefs that, over time, have been in the corner winking "hey, I have the answer, come over here and I'll share it". Mostly these are dominated by what we conventionally call "religion".