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Atheism is a religion
A religion is simply the answer to the “ultimate questions” in live: 1) where do we come from? 2) where are we ending?, and 3) how to behave to enrich this journey?.
Atheism answers these questions fair and square : 1) we come from matter and chance 2) the death is the end, and 3) don’t bother the others so they don’t bother you.
Atheism is a religion, a worldview.
3 questions that define a religion
Religion is any response to these human-making questions:
1. What happens after death (where are we going)
2. Why are we here (where do we come from)
3. How to behave in order to enrich this journey.
By this definition, many human constructions are religions: Communism, Atheism, New Age …
Buddha was Lutheran
Buddha is the Luther (reformer) of Hinduism. Both trashed the institutional body of their religions (the Vedas & casts in Buddha; the Church in Luther) to get a more spiritual faith.
Religions can be positioned in a scale from: A. the merely spiritual (no rites, no priests, all is interior) like New Age and Liberal Protestantism, to Z. the purely material, like Paganism or China’s Confucianism (no interiority needed).
Catholicism, because of the its interpretation of the Incarnation of God, is, in this scale, closer to Paganism than to Protestantism.
Do you think religions should be purely spiritual?
La Fe no es Revelación sino Tradición
Decimos que la fe se recibe por Revelación, pero realmente se recibe por Tradición. A casi nadie Dios se le ha “revelado”, al menos, directamente. Lo que Dios ha dado a todos, aunque en distinta medida, no es una Revelación, unas verdades, sino una facilidad para aceptar una tradición, mayormente haciéndonos nacer en un hogar con cierta fe.
Determinism is religion
Modernity is a deterministic worldview, not for scientific reasons, but for theological prejudices. Descartes believed that God (and his laws of Nature) was the only real cause in Nature, and, therefore, everything is determined in advance. This was a pathetic reductionism of the knowledge of causality already achieved by Aristotle and the medievals.