This excruciatingly pedantic exercise in semantics belies the commonplace understanding of a very commonplace word:
1. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
2. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
Evidently the subscription service to Roget’s Thesaurus has not run out yet.
The RCC has more invested in “religion” than did the errant teachers from Judea back in the first century (Acts 15). The Vatican has cooked up its own “Mosaic Law” full of superstition and myth. The believers in Jesus Christ are just calling it for what it is...nonsense. Care to join us?