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1. Religion is a "cultural system," more exactly, the primary cultural system through which human beings explicitly ask and answer the existential question of the meaning of ultimate reality for us.

2. But religion, like any other cultural system, primary or secondary, exists concretely only as a religion or religions---some religions—some specific cultural system or systems through which the existential question is explicitly asked and answered.

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6. This it does because it also claims to be the formally true religion, Lei.e., the religion which itself is substantially true and with which any and all other religions have to agree in order also to be substantially true.

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