<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 11, 2009, Post Futurist wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Atheism<em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be termed a de facto religion/faith. It does, for instance, include academic rituals.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>For a word to be useful you need contrast, if everything has the Klognee property then it's not a useful concept. Can you pleas tell me something that is NOT a religion?</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>