Confucianism as a religion?

@moonbus said
What remains consistent throughout Confucius' discourses on Tian is his threefold assumption about this extrahuman, absolute power in the universe: (1) its alignment with moral goodness, (2) its dependence on human agents to actualize its will, and (3) the variable, unpredictable nature of its associations with mortal actors. Thus, to the extent that the Confucius of the Anal ...[text shortened]... it is not in, for example, Stoicism. Stoicism is therefore a philosophy, not a religion, in my view.

Thanks. Made for an interesting read.