> Believers and non-believers alike cement ideas in their head which are indifferent to reality and hard to dislodge. When such ideas acquire a (more or less)

> Believers and non-believers alike cement ideas in their head which are indifferent to reality and hard to dislodge. When such ideas acquire a (more or less) self-consistent philosophical theory to back them up, and social institutions to promote them, that's what most people call religion. Sometimes we also call them ideologies or traditions. Some have supernatural elements and some don't, but their cognitive and social functions seem to be mostly the same.