What is the difference between supporting a belief, and being religious?

Religion supports and feeds my Spiritual Self .. where as science tells me the glass is half full because i just saw Judy spill half of it ! Science is the study of facts and results from those facts.

But nothing can challenge, that my belief in religion does not if i want it to ...' see the glass as FULL '.

Indeed belief can be anything that you wish to have belief in.

I think you are conflating religion with blind faith. There is a big overlap.

Religion is about the spiritual life, morality and supernatural realms of existence.

Science is a method of gaining knowledge about the manifest world.

In religion it is accepted for people to simply hold unsubstantiated belief. That's kind of the whole point. Faith.

But in science, just a belief is called a hypothesis. It is the first step to testing the belief rigorously and turning it into theory or rejecting it. That's when you are doing science: When you skeptically challenge your own inkling and simnply ask the laws of the universe to show you if you were right or wrong.

When you support a belief, your mind logically researches on that belief and arrives at the conclusion that it is true.

While in being religious, you accept beliefs as they are, and not going into logic.

Religion itself is never supernatural it is just a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe.

Science uses evidence to support theories, Religion and the arts uses justification to support beliefs. You cannot use imperical methods to gage ideology. Kinda like using volume to measure distance.

Supporting a belief is justifying what you have chosen to believe. Being religious is being guided by a religious doctrine in your thoughts, feelings and actions.

Religion is more of an obsession of a particular set of beliefs.

Belief and religion all fall under the same category, however religion is cultish observance while belief could be anything.

Not much. Ideology is ideology.

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Religion is the highest aspiration of philosophy.