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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7510697" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, but the reason that it does not is not something I can go into, because the explanation is political. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think I can hedge around it though by way of analogy.  Whether or not one eats pork is not for most people a religious statement.  But for certain religious groups, it is.  Of course, one would expect a very pious religious person might declare that his every action was in some way a religious expression, because he believed that religion was an all encompassing all embracing all important aspect of ones life.  And for that person, it would be certainly true that everything he did was religious.  But one is not compelled to believe that that person's view is necessarily true.Or, if that is still too controversial, imagine the situation of a highly fanatical sports fan who always wore his teams colors, decorated his house in his teams colors, attended every game, and largely arranged his life around sports and supporting his team.  One could reasonably believe him when he said that everything he did revolved around sports.  But one would not be compelled to take the same view of life.</blockquote>