I forgot a few other things that a vast number of people are religious about in today's society...

- technology
- science
- mainstream medicine
- legal drugs
- illegal drugs
- various forms of psychotherapy and related approaches to dealing with mental health issues

If they give anything their unquestioning obedience and faith....without having actual knowledge of it, withouth having actual experience of it or without having direct and clear evidence of it...then they are being religious about it. They're adopting a form of dogma that was passed on to them by someone else.

If they give it unwarranted influence in their lives, and in an unthinking and dogmatically unrealistic manner...then they are being religious about it.

If they credit it with infallibility or with powers considerably beyond what it really has...then they are being religious about it.

I've observed people worshipping all of the above things. It's very common behaviour. They don't question, they simply swallow whatever is doled out to them as long as it comes from a peer group they are in with or an official authority hierarchy that they have decided to trust.

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The road to personal freedom is first to question EVERYTHING. Don't believe it just because someone told you to. Re-examine it. Test it out in the field of actual experience. Find out firsthand. See if it works for you. See if it feels right for you. Don't take anyone's word for it, don't take any book's word for it, don't take any government's or church's or club's or party's word for it, don't take any guru's word for it, don't take your parents' or teachers' word for it....find out for yourself.

Your parents may be right. Your teacher may be right. Your church or your government may be right. (about something) But you'll never find out for sure unless you find out for yourself by your own actual experience.