LH, I think you're making my point. I was deliberately including as many religions as I could think of- the Judaeo- Christian family, the Hindu family, ancient religions like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome and Greece, animism, Paganism, Zoroastrianism and its descendants, and suchlike; and deliberately excluding some forms of Buddhism, and perhaps Confucianism and Shinto. Not because they don't count, but because they need to be treated separately, along with social beliefs like communism, fascism, and perhaps the Green movement and Darwinism. I'm not sure where astrology comes in this.

My point was that religion as a word has largely outlived its usefulness, because, being so protean, two participants in a discussion will almost certainly have completely different concepts of what the word entails.

So, for my own part, I'm not religious, because that's not a useful word to apply to the process by which I construct my world system; and I'm not a socialist, because that word also is too open to misunderstanding.