what are the conditions to be fullfilled?

Re: what are the conditions to be fullfilled?


Because people call it one.



Because people don't call it one.

... I think you'll find my answers more profound than they look if you think about it.

Well usually a religion comprises of 6 things:

1. Origin
2. A founder
3. History
4. Cult
5. Creed
6. Code

which i can elaborate on, but only if you ask.

A movvement does not have a history, nor does it most likely have a creed or cult. Most religions are called religions because they have these elements and because the founder had some sort of encounter with the sacred.

If an 'idealogy' can be rationally explained, it is a movement; if it can not, it is a religion.

[the difference between knowledge and faith is thought]

i know more or less what those 6 mean - but i'll still ask. please elaborate on them.


a movement that stays long enough will get a history - another 30 yeats and nazism will be 100+ years old.

a movement can acquire cult ststus. david koresh and marshall applewhite's "movements'

if by creed you meant credo, then movements can have that too.



there's a religion that has no founder, but is more like this forum - with various members chipping in. and none of them have had any encounter with the sacred. so is that religion still a religion?

is it important for all 6 crieteria to be fullfulled?



the number of followers of the hippie movement far outnumber the current (alive) folowers of zorastrianism and b'ahai.


why isnt hippy-ism a religion?

communism and nazism better be rationally explain-able !!!

meanwhile every religion better not be - else they'd be rendered "movements"

Religions don't necessarily start out as such. Someone encountered a miracle and began telling others about it, starting classes in their home, the classes becoming so large a building is rented, then a special building is built, another, another, and another.

Then, someone can start a church for no reason at all. Why not? A bunch of hippies may simply want to express themselves.