Defining "Religion" (Wikipedia)

[carolinayellowdog]

2. true now, truer in the future

I just stumbled upon a quote from Hitchens, someone I never liked for political reasons, that was REALLY simplistic. The gist was that since we can't know that any particular religion is the only true one, the most "reasonable" conclusion is that they are all false. FSVO "reason"! The more any religion consists of a set of falsifiable assertions about history or science, the more vulnerable it is to this kind of "debunking." But mainstream Protestantism and even Catholicism seem to be moving away from that model and towards the kind of values/symbols model expressed in the OP. Unitarian Universalists, liberal Quakers, many Buddhists, neo-Hermeticists, all well along in liberating themselves from such narrow understanding of what it means to be religious.