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Originally posted by kenny
How is it that God is a completely different concept then religion, wasnt religion built around God?
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A religion is a set of beliefs about origins and ethics which are believed purely on faith.
God is defined in various ways, but mostly as an all-powerful, all-seeing/knowing being.
Some religions, like Buddhism (in its original form) had no deity whatsoever, and was primarily a set of beliefs about how to live a life devoid of unhappiness and conflict. Confucianism really is a set of laws about how to behave and how to have a well-structured society. Judaism, while believing in God, is also a law-based religion.
Taoism also has no God, and is oriented toward how to avoid conflict by emulating the female to counterbalance the mostly male-dominated world.
God is optional in religion.