Well, depends on the Religion.
99.9% of Australians are signed up in the religion of the Sacred Dollar.

Dear Nathan,

Yes, your observation is correct.

But not only humans: everyone and everything is religious (though some more than others). Religion, the yearning to return to God, makes the world go round!

One definition of religion is that it is a way of life, this definition would see the OP as valid.

Socialism and Communism are religions by this definition.

To Nathan J

For the sake of clarity. Please go into more detail of what you mean by being religous. I take it you mean it in a different way then just whether a person ascribes to a certian religion. But is this a commentary to dovotion people have that is simular to religous devotions? Or is this a perspective that religion permeates throughout society, making everyone religous because of the influence of religion on a society? Or is it something else?

I don't mean to turn this into a defination debate (I've seen that go on too recently). Just that for the conversation to continue there needs to be a foundation of what you're trying to say. Thanks.

If you exclude Atheism as a religion, the fastest growing "faiths" in Australia are Sikhism and Hinduism, the Islamic mob are running a poor third. As for Christianity, except for the American styled Evangelicals cash grabbers, the happy clappers are going backwards. The head of the Vatican mafia must be very concerned that the Aussie franchise is not meeting its growth and revenue targets for the fiscal year of our lord 2018/19! Archy Pell has more to explain that his dealings with children. As for the prods they are as dead as Henry VIII.

If you have a lazy Sunday between footy and cricket seasons can I suggest you give Buddhism a test run, saffron robes and sandals are optional these days, and the diet does wonders for your cholesterol.

You'll probably want to check this out;

http://www.sapphyr.net/buddhist/buddhist-core.htm

Just as a side, and nothing to do with this thread, I paid $7.50 for a schooner in an inner city pub, previously a working mans pub, on Saturday night. We just went there to listen to an 'Old School' reggae band, a bit of my religion, but $7.50, must be some kind of religious conspiracy!

The thought that a very small area in the middle east gave us the three most seen Gods in the western world is fueled by people like Nathan.
No doubt a nice bloke, one who wants better for us all, but blind to reason facts and truth.
As humans came out of Africa we took our witch doctors in to the caves with us, we needed them we thought, and maybe for a time we did
It is time we emerged from those caves settled our fears and understood we have been our own support not having ever had a God to do that for us
Worth pointing out had Jesus lived he must have been a little brown man and a Jew, yet the more bigoted of us murder Jews because we blame them [not me] for killing the man who is said to have told us they are his chosen people.