Is Confucianism a Religion?

This video provides needed concepts and sources to help you answer the question "Is Confucianism a Religion?"

[irwanharyadi]

Just for your information currently there are more than 250 lithang (similar to church in Christianity) from Matakin (Majelis Tinggi Agama Khonghucu Indonesia) for Confucianists to practice their religion belief in Indonesia. They also have their priests performing marriages to Confucianist couples etc. Confucian is one of the religions acknowledged in Indonesia besides Islam, Christianity, Catholic, Hinduism, Buddhism and local beliefs. So yes Confucianism is one of the religion in Indonesia. When I studied in Japan in early 1980s, I also found a Confucian temple in Tokyo named Yushima Seido. So they are not only practicing their belief in their daily life, but also they have rituals in their temples as well.

[ShangDiAboveGodhood]

Corrections:

1) _Later_ Confucianism which let itself get picked apart by selective interpretations foreign or otherwise may not believe in The Supreme One. But if you're going to be using his name, the ultimate answer will come from the root - Confucius. Confucius was a theist. ShangDi & Tian are not the same thing and only the latter was stated to be silent. Tian is neither God nor "a god" - it is Heaven and gets paired with Earth, both below God. God Is Unpaired.

2) No. The word "bible" derives from the Phoenician city of Gebal 𐤂𐤁𐤋 which literally means 'the waterwell of el' - the reason being that papyrus was produced there. This has nothing to do with us in China. We have Scripture (which is a generic word), but claiming they weren't seen as holy is not correct either. Classics cover topics with explicit references to ShangDi (~God), so calling it secular is blasphemously wrong.