In the context of equality I understand religion to be any religion or absence of religion e.g. atheism. (nakedpastor.com)
An interesting and suggestive aspect of his gender - based analysis is the near - total absence of religion as a cause of violence, unlike standard liberal narratives that attribute the progress of Western society to the taming of religious passions through secularization. (firstthings.com)
so it seems rather ironic that you force absence of religion on the rest of us to but yet complain if anyone even mentions religion in your company. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)