Message from @Dvir
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When it comes down to it there are probably only a handful more universal core tenets that you could find in all of Christians. These could become pretty distinct, like the Miaphysites or the Nasrani for example.
Religion is more than a tenet or set of tenets though, it is a system of belief that sometimes includes ritual or tradition
You are right in that atheism lacks any ritual or tradition, which is its problem.
If you really want to stretch the definition of religion, just state that the scientific method and the scientific community are those aspects
But the thing is, that you can do that for anything
That is the point of the Tech Priests in 40k.
Religion is more than that though
When we use the word religion it is in reference to a supernatural being to be worshipped
I will concede that atheism isn't a religion in of itself, but atheism is often not packaged on its own.
Atheism rejects a supernatural god to be worshipped
and even the existence of one
I believe that religion is innate to humans and not the Universe, but it is essential part of our being and not one that should be starved.
christianity is jewsih.
I think atheism can lead someone susceptible into another ideology that surplants the role that religion usually has.
salvation is from the jews" john 4:22
If we can agree that the only thing seperating religion from any other way of thinking, that involves ritual and tradition, is the supernatural entity, then what you are saying is that it is inherent that all should need to be fulfilled by a supernatural entity
God is not an active being
That would suggest a lack of free will
Humans are the only beings we know to have a higher consciousness, I believe the conscious mind to be the closest thing to God that we know exists.
Like Yeshua Ha'Notzri says, "The kingdom is inside you, and all around you."
The Prophet does not become a Prophet by doing nothing, the Prophet must manifest out what was envisioned to him.
I would ttend to agree that the uniqueness of the human consciousness is a phenomenon that could lead to that conclusion, but it is also impossible for us to know whether there is or is not consciousness within any other living being in the universe
And if they do share consciousness like ours, I would call them Humans.
I believe Human to be the idea of the sentient being, in a literal sense we are just Hominids.
There does not require there to be a god for any of those things to be true though
They don't, but they can be explained by it.
All things can be explained by the supernatural
That is the point of the supernatural
Consciousness is an abstraction though
It isn't quantifiable
Only until enough has been done to qunatify it
that is why science is always expanding
And this is why I am a psychology major
If the spirit came into being because of the flesh it is a marvel,
Psychology does not necessarily aim to quantify the consciousness though, arguably neuroscience does more in that regard
If the flesh came into being because of the spirit then it is a marvel of marvels.
I intend on focusing on depth psychology
I hold a Jungian view of psychology
But the actual science behing what cuses our conscience will not be discovered by psychology. Psychology is the study of what a conscience contains,not what it is or how it came to be
Well I care more about understanding it because I have a satisfied idea of how it came to be in the first place.
And if I discover my view was wrong I will change it.