Meaning of religion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
   uncountable
2. A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
   countable
3. The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
   uncountable
4. Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
   informal, uncountable
5. Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
   countable
6. Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy”

“My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.”

“Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. […] I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.”

“Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.”

“Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather, religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization; it is not so much the opiate of the masses as it is the antidote for the poisons of civilization.”

“Near-synonyms: credo, creed”

“Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.”

“Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.”

“Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country: and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.”

““It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret—according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one’s religion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I.””

“Priest: I wasn't being rude. Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of other religions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.”

“The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.”

“I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.”

“Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.”

“At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.”

“'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'”

“Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!”

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