Helm : just reread what I write perhaps. I would respond to what you told me, but i just have no idea who you are talking to. It's clear that you've been hurt by someone, or a group of people, or otherwise have a huge and important argument with them, but I personally am not sure who these people are and I'm frankly confused. I never said i intend to cleanse someone and I certainly am not preaching here, nor do i pretend to live any sort of higher or more virtuous life. If there are people you know who have condemned, who have passed judgment, who attempt to evangelize and to cleanse you, I apologize for how you feel about that but i want you to know that this is not me. As for filthy, I apologize if that rubs you the wrong way - it's a very common word where I come from and i meant none of the things you've assigned to it.
I never said that other views of Religion is wrong, and I have stayed far away from defining my personal views of religion - I personally continue to feel that my definition of Religion is as objective as it can be :
n.
1.
1. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
2. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Religion is defined first as a belief in a creator and governor of the universe. This is the absolute core of it. Everything else is secondary to that, with the exception of definition number four which I would consider a colloquialism. Religion is not defined here by turning water into wine or david slaying a dragon (that actually is how it used to go, it got stricken for being TOO out there). Different Religions may be further categorized by their specific beliefs and practices, but what makes a religion a religion is not those, but belief, as it says, in a creator and governor of the universe.
Beyond that, there's nothing I can say here.
I'm sorry to say I can't understand these statements. 'but the idea that we all do' what? Worship dragons and say no to science? 'for all who feel themselves to be have such' what?
sorry, that's a problem that stems from attempting to type while eating lamb and reading Tolstoy. To your first question, yes, you got it, to the second - take off "to be" (so to have such - to have a faith in god).
(creating a personal lexicon and whatnot)
I have not done this, so I don't know how to respond. I also have not brought a particular definition of good and evil other than to say that murder is evil. That's technically subjective, but do you really want to be the one to fight it?
We started out discussing your reaction to a comic that was about religion at large and nonbelievers at large, not about the religion in your person where every other religion in any other person that doesn't cohere with your vision is false.
Religion at large includes all religions, including and I am speaking for many people I know here. And I never said that other religions are false, only that God is what defines a religion, not whether it believes in dragons.
You have a way of always misinterpreting everything I say in extremely negative ways, and I just don't know how to avoid this. I don't actually like explaining myself a dozen times hat I felt was clear the first. If you weren't responding to what I said, and in particular getting it completely wrong when you respond, I would be pretty quiet. But I see that you find yourself to be at a higher phase and that I talk too much, so in the future I will not take your questions and definitions as an invitation to discourse.