Philosophies that are almost like religions?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Confucianism is the canonical example. I should state for the sake of honesty that there are schools of Buddhism that could fit this description as well, although the mainstream of that worldview, especially on a global scale, is absolutely a religion and it's foolish and ethnocentric to think otherwise.

Dialectical materialism?

Ooh, well-played.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm sorry to have somehow missed the big-brained galaxy warrior on the first page of this thread arguing for Kant as a proto-postmodernist and forerunner of muh (((Frankfurt School))). And implicitly for Marxism as a postmodern philosophy!! Woof.

Anyway, I stand by what I said in this thread in a few years ago--Confucianism is the canonical example of a religion-like philosophy, and some forms of mostly Western Buddhism arguably count, although the idea that Buddhism qua Buddhism is "a philosophy, not a religion!!!" just because it doesn't feature a creator God is literally a joke to most actual scholars of religion.