... even questionable whether the various monotheisms should be seen as fulfilling this function. Moreover, it seems implausible to hold that religions as diverse as Lutheran Christianity, Advaita Vedanta Hinduism and Daoism all serve the same function, however broadly this function is conceived. This brief survey might suggest that what each type of definition regards as the defining, or essential, feature of ... notion of a religious ultimate, or God, into the definition. That strategy would certainly exclude secular humanism and Marxism, but it would also exclude "religions" like Therava...

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