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Re:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by keiferski on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:04PM (#25163073)
a. The word doesn't lose meaning, unless you insist on what religion means circa ±2000 was the ultimate definition, and no previous or future meanings can ever be correct. Again, the definition of the term has changed over time and the separation of "religion" as a separate thing is itself a modern phenomenon.

b. That's more of a sociological labeling question, but I don't think that's a good example.

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Re:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by mannykannot on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:11PM (#25166245)
> The word doesn't lose meaning, unless you insist on what religion means circa ±2000 was the ultimate definition, and no previous or future meanings can ever be correct.

That's dodging the issue, which is that if you are going to argue that secular humaninsm is identical with christianity, then logically, you must accept that christianity is identical with secular humanism: No God, no creation, no Trinity, Christ is not the son of God in any sense... and if you do, then all the explicitly theological and christian concepts can be stripped out with Occam's razor.

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