Doing the presentations in class made me wander how many defintions i could find about religion so i began to search on the internet for definitions and these are a few i found.
Definitions:
1. beliefs and worship: people's beliefs and opinions concerning the existence, nature, and worship of a deity or deities, and divine involvement in the universe and human life
2. system: an institutionalized or personal system of beliefs and practices relating to the divine
3. personal beliefs or values: a set of strongly-held beliefs, values, and attitudes that somebody lives by
4. obsession: an object, practice, cause, or activity that somebody is completely devoted to or obsessed byThe danger is that you start to make fitness a religion.
5. christianity monk's or nun's life: life as a monk or a nun, especially in the Roman Catholic Church
This is from encarta.com
These definitions are ineresting and relate to many of the ones that are being descussed in class presentations. I still believe that religion is what a person makes it. It is how one person or many believe things happen. How they make up for what is going on around them. This is also one way to reflect what maters to them as far as hopes and dreams. It gives them the ability to believe in something that will help them have or achieve these hopes and dreams.
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