Reply #186: I don't see praying as a prerequisite for religion

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a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

Seems to fit the bill.

It's more like pop psychology and fun with personality types.

I'd agree if we were discussing the Myers-Brigg, which is also hocus pocus, but its adherents don't lay claim to divine inspiration (besides the Jung=God school if there still is one).

Worry about the evangelicals, but not astrologers.

The OP would probably disagree:

TexasProgresive
24. To all who think Evangelical=fundamentalist

Your are in danger of becoming a fundamentalist of a different type.
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helderheid
85. YES.

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86. that was my impression too. I'm a Quaker and believe in the teachings of Christ

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1526657#1540476

They're harmless.

I'd tend to agree, but people ill-disposed to reason invariably become something less harmless in my experience.

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -Pascal
"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field." -Einstein