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Is Buddhism a religion?

Asked by whiteliondreams (1717points) June 11th, 2012

I have read that Buddhism is a philosophy and then there is information regarding it as a religion. Finally, there is information regarding it as both. Is religion, in the traditional sense of the word, the system of believing and worshiping a deity? Or, can people change it freely to imply comparability? The second question implies that by making Buddhism similar to deity worshiping that it can be antagonized as being pseudo-theological.

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