Re: CHAT: Congregationalism & Religious Terms In Dublex (was Turtledove (was: RE: Nov 11th))

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:48:01 -0500, Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...>
wrote:

>OK.  Let's try this:
>
>devsist [god+system] religion, faith -- an institution created to =
express
>belief in a divinity or multiple deities
>
>mirvissist [world+view+system] religion, faith -- a philosophy of life
>
>So athiesm and Bhuddism are mirvissists only, where Christianity and =
Islam
>are both devsists and mirvissists.
In that case, "religion, faith" is a poor definition, and it should be
something more like "world view" or "belief system". For that matter,
atheism isn't really even a "system", but a particular belief which might
be part of many different kinds of "belief systems" (the same way as
Christophe Grandsire pointed out that Buddhism is compatible with many
different belief systems). Objectivism and communism, for instance, are
opposing philosophies of life, even though both are typically associated
with atheism. (A typical problem with negatively defined words like
"atheism" and "invertebrate" is that they often include radically =
different
things in the same category.)

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