My religion is music!
You may say, "That's not a religion!"
Here's where I searched the web for a definition of the word "religion." I found that this word is one of the most difficult to define. Check out all these definitions:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...efine:religion
This article says it best:
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from: http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQ...ef_problem.htm
Academic literature is filled with attempts to describe what religion is and many of those attempts are very unhelpful. Definitions of religion tend to suffer from one of two problems: they are either too narrow and exclude many of the belief systems which most people will agree are religious, or they are too vague and ambiguous, leading one to conclude that just about any and everything is actually a religion.
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(religious conviction, religious faith): Form of spirituality that involves meditation, prayer, and/or churchgoing.
www.hcrc.org/diction/r.html
This definition actually accepts me and my relationship with music as a religion, whereas many definitions do not.