Religion is an inescapable concept – everybody has a religion. Everybody has a basic set of assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology and ethics by which he lives, whether he consciously realises it or not. Everybody is religious. As the Supreme Court case Torcaso v Watkins acknowledged, even secular humanism is a religion (albeit, like Buddhism, non-theistic).
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