Heh - you should try working at Crazy Wisdom sometime. After all, we're trying to sell crystals, ephemerides, candles, statuary, ad infinitum. It can be very tricky to offer assistance without advocating, or dis-advocating, any religion or lack thereof, while being courteous and helpful. It is entirely possible to have four or more religions represented in an afternoon's customers, none of them Christian varieties. What do you say when someone asks if that crystal really works? "Well, if you're building a radio, it's crucial?" Maybe not. I refer them to the shelf of books on crystals and their mystic powers.
Nope, you don't have to have a deity to have a religion. I have found that the best definition for "religion" is: The set of rules that an individual uses to guide his or her own life. Those rules may contain elements such as what foods they eat (or refuse to eat); what exercise they get (or refuse to get); sexual activity or lack thereof; cleanliness or lack thereof; ad infinitum. Dunno if it would work for anyone else, but it works for me.
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Date: 2006-02-01 11:00 pm (UTC)Nope, you don't have to have a deity to have a religion. I have found that the best definition for "religion" is: The set of rules that an individual uses to guide his or her own life. Those rules may contain elements such as what foods they eat (or refuse to eat); what exercise they get (or refuse to get); sexual activity or lack thereof; cleanliness or lack thereof; ad infinitum. Dunno if it would work for anyone else, but it works for me.