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Date/Time 09 Dec 2016 2:26:58pm
I'm pretty sure that Buddhism is regarded as religion despite the fact that there is no requirement to believe in a deity?

This "athiesm is a religion" argument might be cleared up if there was a slightly different understanding of "faith". In most cases presented here, the term "faith" is equated with "belief".

I would argue, though, that the object of "faith" is that in which you put your trust. Hence the classical definition of "faith" being the substance of things hoped for.

When a person considers their own mortality or finitude, where do they find their consolation? That, in my opinion, relates to their faith. For the "religious" the consolation is to be found in "God" or in some spiritual truth. For the athiest, I would observe, the trust is put in science (as a noun rather than a verb), or in themselves, or perhaps in "nature" with its corollaries like "evolution", or order or something.

Wherever you put your trust, there is your God