1. belief that something exists outside of experience and outside of possible conceptualization (this is very bad phraseology on my part, but I hope you get the general idea);
2. belief that relating to this something is important in some way for human existence;
3. a conceptual system, whether simple or complex, whether formally organized or not, for relating human existence to that something.
(Marx is only religious in this sense if one interprets Communism as this something.)
--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Philp Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh yeah, and I quoted Hamann above. A quick glance at his
> bio indicates that
> he probably wasn't exactly a good Christian in the
> dogmatic sense of the
> term:
>
> "During this time, despite his committed Christianity,
> he lived with a woman
> whom he never married but to whom he remained devoted and
> faithful, having
> four children on whom he doted, and who occasionally
> feature in his writings
> (principally as unruly distractions to the author's
> scholarship)."
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