Religion in new terms

When I thought about religion before I started this class, the definition I thought of was beliefs and worshiping a higher power.  I thought that was a pretty good definition, until Jessica put into perspective about how her worshipping the Vikings fit our definition of religion.  It got me to thinking, worshiping a sports team isn’t a real religion so I thought well what is religion then? Now that we have had a few classes, I am now starting to understand different people have different views on what religion really is.  I was raised as a Christian so I have to remind myself that my views aren’t the same as many other people who study religion.  I have to say that I was rather disturbed when we were reading about Sigmund Freud. Obviously, his views and my views are very very different, but at the same time the way he defines religion doesn’t make me mad.  Those are his thoughts; I have mine.  Just because we have different views doesn’t make me not interested in why he thinks the way he does.  So far, I have been very open to learning how different people view religion.  It’s interesting to me people’s different opinions and I can’t wait to keep learning about them.