{"id":24477,"date":"2017-10-03T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=24477"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:20:25","slug":"religion-what-is-the-definition-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/religion-what-is-the-definition-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion: What is the definition of religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>My quest for definitions means continual self-tutoring. The tutor discusses the definition of religion.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%;background-color:#eeeeff\">religion: system of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or god.<sup>1<\/sup><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Over the past year I&#8217;ve been party to several discussions about belief in God. More than one person has indicated that <i>belief in God<\/i> is distinct from <i>religion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What, then is the definition of religion? Is it the one above?<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon a video on YouTube in which Abhay Charanavarinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada defines religion:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#777777;color:white;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:130%;text-align:center\">Religion means to understand God.<sup>2<\/sup><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mjwdn0XAjgk\">youtube.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada\"><br \/>\nwikipedia <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My quest for definitions means continual self-tutoring. The tutor discusses the definition of religion. religion: system of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or god.1 Over the past year I&#8217;ve been party to several discussions about belief in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/religion-what-is-the-definition-of-religion\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Religion: What is the definition of religion?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1176,1],"tags":[2525,2523,2524],"class_list":["post-24477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","tag-definition-of-religion","tag-difference-between-belief-in-god-and-religion","tag-difference-between-faith-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24477"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24551,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions\/24551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}