What is religion? Religion is an irreversible contract between you and your beliefs sealed on the day of your baptism. What distinguishes religion from a belief is that religion involves LOVE. You love the God that you believe in and you love the greater "truth" that your religion bestows upon you. Beliefs can evolve. You may believe one thing to be true at one time, and believe it to be otherwise after some time. A religion is reduced to a common belief if at one point in your life you were led to believe that some part of it is not true. For instance, a friend or even a stranger comes to you and tells you that God is a woman. He or she presents convincing facts that God indeed is a woman. This contradicts the teachings of your religion, which says God is a man. And then one morning, you wake up thinking that this could be true. One of the truths you knew since you were baptised was falsified. But it does not end there. This falsified truth would falsify several other truths until no truth is left standing. Religion is comparable to a high-rised edifice made up of building blocks. If you take away one block, it would not be as strong and sturdy as it was before. Take away another block it becomes weaker. And then eventually it shall crumble down to the ground. If this happens then you don't have a religion but rather a common belief.