Not to mention a Nave's Topical Bible. Invaluable resources, both.
by your definition and the rest of the secularists, anything is a religion.
Anything CAN BE a religion. To say it is not is simple intolerance.
A sect is not a religion. It's a sect.
Not according to the state - that pesky "freedom of religion" thing again. There are sects of Christianity whose parishioners handle poisonous snakes - if we allow the state to pick up the check for a statue of the Ten Commandments, we also have to let somebody inclined to do so to erect a monument to a timber rattler or copperhead as well.