Reply #13: Not unless you use a truly screwed-up definition of "religion"...

[regnaD kciN]

...as you seem to be doing in your first post, when you define it as something like "a way to answer some of life's questions."

The fact is that, by that definition, virtually everything is a religion. Philosophy (political or otherwise) of any type, science (hey, physics is a religion!), even some of the arts. Like I said, you can describe anything that answers questions about the world as a religion.

But, in fact, when one speaks of a religion, one of necessity considers it as a system of thought based on faith in an intelligent entity or entities that is/are not empirically perceiveable. And that pretty much diqualifies liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, socialism, or any other political "-ism."