Adjective

religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

Positive religious

Comparative more religious

Superlative most religious

1. Concerning religion.

   It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.

2. Committed to the practice of religion.

   I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.

3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

   I'm a religious fan of college basketball.

Related terms

• irreligious
• religion
• religious order
• religious leader
• religiously
• religiousness
• sacreligious

A religion is a system of human thought which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, deity or deities, or ultimate truth. Religion is commonly identified by the practitioner's prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things, but more generally is interwoven with society and politics. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.

The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system," but it is more socially defined than personal convictions, and it entails specific behaviors, respectively.

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The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. It considers psychological and social roots, along with origins and historical development.

In the frame of western religious thought, religions present a common quality, the "hallmark of patriarchal religious thought": the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane. Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a "way of life" or a life stance.

• Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now. -Star Parker (Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education)
• The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. -William Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
• The best way to insure the earth is never over populated is for sensible and righteous governments to clear all forms of atheism and heresy. -Robert T. Lee (Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments)

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• 2 D through L
• 3 M through Z
• 4 See also

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• Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. -John Ashcroft (Attorney General)

• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. —Francis Bacon

• A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or, he may be in Church and be aware of God; but, if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him. He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere. —Meister Eckhart

• All that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us. —Marcus Aurelius

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