I have yet to find a religious system without any kind of deities. Even Taoism and Buddhism that were pointed out above, have some form of deities in their religious beliefs. I pointed Atheism as a philosophical system that is explicitly based on the notion of non-existence of a god. If one considers it as a religion, than the answer to the poll is no. However, if it is the only example we can find and we know this term was specifically coined up with the intention to deny god(s), then it seems like a perverse example that has nothing to do with the true meaning of religion.
I think I started some thread were I wonder what is the objective of a religion, but it is not important. In my opinion, religion is a system of beliefs that try to answer the inexplicable. The differences between some religions occur because of the time of their inception. Newer religions were faced with fewer problems than soma ancient ones. This would correspond to the shift from polytheism to monotheism. If you look at the polytheistic religions, you would notice that there was a need to explain everyday natural and astronomical phenomena. With the advent of civilizations and science, it came to be known that most of these phenomena occur due to some more fundamental reason and that there is an underlying law that governs them. Attributing these characteristics to a single deity led to monotheism. Hence, the confidence of Moses in the God of Abraham over the polytheistic gods of ancient Egypt. In any case, the need for explaining the inexplicable and giving some reason behind it by invoking supernatural beings leads to the creations of some sort of deities.
The only common question addressed by all of the religions that I know of is what happens after the death of a human being. Hence, the existence of some kind of burial rites in every religion. This is one question that is still not answered by modern science. Here, atheists make a ‘leap of faith’ and say that there is nothing after our death, or the death of any living being, for that matter. Our body is a synergetic assembly of tissues, chemicals and electrical impulses that, at some point, seize to exist and the feeling of consciousness is lost. Whether you choose to believe in this stance or not is your right. However, notice that most of the monotheistic religions give an elaborate description of what is to happen after our death and, by projecting these events to our current life, they enact a moral code of conduct and a system of observances.
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