This is a category argument that I explicitly avoid making and don’t think is meaningful: the word itself does not mean anything and arguing over it is meaningless. You seem to really want to do that anyway because you can support your argument better on basically definitional grounds than factual ones.
This is an extremely weird position to take given the central claim of this entire post seems to be that rationality fits the definition of a religion. What do you think you’re arguing for in this post, then, if not that?
by choosing Islam, Judaism etc as comparison points instead of Scientology, Mormonism or any other smaller, newer or more modern movement is just assuming your conclusion.
I don’t know what point you think you’re making here but these are also obviously religions.
This is an extremely weird position to take given the central claim of this entire post seems to be that rationality fits the definition of a religion. What do you think you’re arguing for in this post, then, if not that?
I don’t know what point you think you’re making here but these are also obviously religions.