What are you saying here--that everyone has a religion of some sort?
Yes, I do. But allow me to clarify a bit because, admittedly, that statement alone without some further explanation is vacuous. Its customary when we think of 'religion,' that we associate it with temples, and steeples, and chapels, and bowing in reverence, and tomes containing social mores and a standard of ethics coming from a metaphysical realm. And for the sake of being clear and concise, I don't usualy quarrel over this notion. But this is only one meaning, the common meaning, of religion. A religion is something held onto with special ardor and praise. That could literally be anything that any one of us holds on to with great esteem. This could be money, our own abilities, sports, sex, entertainment of a wide variety -- but more accurately, it could speak more of ourselves. The religion of self-worship. This is the most often form of worship in the history of mankind. Pride. I mean, on some level we all could understand this. We are all guilty of it, if it is indeed something to be guilty for. This is a very broad view of religion, but I think it is a religion nonetheless. Anyone that has such a high commitment must ultimately be praising that thing and giving oblation to that thing. Why must it only encapsulate a Deity that one could scarcely identify in mere words? Why wouldn't it most aptly be seen in the praise and worship of ourselves? Indeed, it does. For however broad that defintion may be, that, nonetheless, is worship -- its a religion in itself through the worship OF the Self.
“Always be ready to give a defense to
everyone who asks you a reason for the
hope that is in you.” -1st Peter 3:15