There are a lot of different religions out there. Apart from the numerous and varied beliefs people have on their own, there are a ton of registered religions that are considered official religions by the country legally. You don’t have the option of just Christian or Jew, Muslim or Mormon, Scientologist or Pastafarian. Nope, these days you can be a part of the First Church of Cannabis. So if you believe, if you really, believe, keep on reading…
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What is a religion?
This might sound like a silly question at first, but it’s actually not. There are two ways of looking at this. The first has to do with a system of belief, and can be described in different ways. Many definitions rely on the idea of a supreme being, like this one: “an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a group of gods.” To something less concrete like this one: “a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects.”
Sometimes definitions involve explanations for life and the universe as we know it, some definitions are more centered around an all-knowing being, and some rely on the idea of a group of people seeing something similarly and acting similarly. While some people take the idea of religion very seriously, others do not. And while some go to meeting places like churches, synagogues, or mosque’s daily to celebrate their beliefs, some avoid such places all together.
There is another way to look at religion, though, and that involves legalities. While anyone can technically open a place of worship for whatever they want, a ‘registered church’ is an incorporated church, which is registered with the secretary of state for whatever state it operates in, and which is then eligible for tax-exemption status by the US federal government. None of this is a legal requirement to worship, of course, but to be considered a ‘legitimate’ place of worship, in the eyes of many this is necessary.