On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:29:30 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> In principle, performance of a
> ritual, whether it involves something like prayer or not, would qualify
> as religious, if directed at connecting to/effecting supernatural
> forces.

I think pretty much everyone follows rituals of some sort, regardless of 
whether they admit to it or not.

Is it more or less religious, for example, to pray to a god, than it is 
to wear a red shirt to a ballgame because the last time you went to a 
ballgame wearing a red shirt, your team won?

Religion and superstition are very closely related in a lot of ways - so 
much so that some would say they're the same.

Jim

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