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How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Three: “Religion” vs. “Way of Life”?)
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Reed Hall
In my previous blog entry, I again asked the seemingly simple question: How many religions are there in the world, today? (Popular objections that Christianity somehow doesn’t count because “it’s a relationship, not a ‘religion'” notwithstanding, it does count. It’s a religion. We covered that in Part Two.) Before proceeding further in addressing the opening…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Two: When Is A Religion “Not A Religion”?)
By
Reed Hall
In my previous blog entry, I asked the seemingly simple question: How many religions are there in the world, today? (Never mind about all the myriad bygone religions of the remote past. And never mind how many people think exclusively of their own religion alone as solely and genuinely qualifying as “authentic religion,” thereby deeming…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part One: “Myth” vs. “Religion”)
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Reed Hall
It seems a simple enough question. How many religions are there, in the world? Let’s immediately narrow things down a bit further, just by additionally refining that question slightly: How many religions are there in the world, today? That last qualifier is important, since it rules out (while it also tellingly reminds us of) the…
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