How Did You Define Religion?

There are many definitions for the word religion. It has been a widely heated debate for centuries. Each person would define religion differently.
In my early life, I would have defined religion, as said by James Martineau, as “the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.” I defined it as this because third through tenth grade, I attended a Christian school. I learned plenty about the religion Christianity. I had chapel at least one a week, and I was required to take at least one Bible studies class every year, such as theology. All of our class revolved around Christianity, and more importantly God. Every class started off with prayer, and even the content of each class included God is some way. There was a joke that went around my school; the joke was “the answer to everything is God.” However, the joke seemed true. Everything we did revolved around Christianity and the worship of that God, so the answer always seemed to be God. I followed this religion blindly, and the only reason I followed it …show more content…
I started to search for a religion that did make sense and answered those big life questions, such as “how did people get here” and “what happens after we die?” I still haven’t found that religion, but I did find a definition of religion that may lead me to my religion. That definition is by Paul Tillich, and he says “Religion is the state if being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.” That is exactly what I am searching for, an answer to the meaning of life. The definition doesn’t limit my search to a God, or a supernatural being. It just says that religion is the answer to the meaning of life. With this definition, anything is open to answer the