Difference between Religious and Pious

RELIGIOUS vs PIOUS: NOUN

One who is bound by monastic vows, as a monk, a friar, or a nun.
A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
A member of a monastic order, especially a nun or monk.
A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.

Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety
Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
Professing or exhibiting traditional morality; dutiful.
Self-righteous or sanctimonious.
Sincere but wishful or far-fetched.
Done for the benefit of others or with the intention of encouraging good.
Showing or characterized by religious devotion.
Earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; reverent or devout.
Devoutly religious
Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
Expressive of or used in religious devotion; devotional.

Imbued with, exhibiting, or arising from religion; pious; godly; devout: as, a religious man; religious behavior: used in the authorized version of the Bible of outward observance (Jas. i. 26; Acts xiii. 43).
Pertaining or devoted to a monastic life; belonging to a religious order; in the Roman Catholic Church, bound by the vows of a monastic order; regular.
Bound by or abiding by some solemn obligation; scrupulously faithful; conscientious.
Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching or setting forth religion; set apart for purposes connected with religion: as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects; religious books or teachers; religious liberty.
Synonyms Devotional.
Scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid. See religion.

Religious, holy, righteous, saintly. See religion.
Practised under the pretense of religion or for a good end: as, pious frauds.
Dictated by reverence for God; proceeding from piety: said of things: as, pious awe; pious services; pious sorrow.
Having faith in and reverence for the Supreme Being; actuated by faith in and reverence for God; godly; devout: said of persons.
Having or exhibiting due respect and affection for parents or others to whom respect and affection are due; also, pertaining to or consisting in the duties of respect and affection toward parents or others.

Faiths, Theological, Religions, Secular, Religion, God fearing, Scrupulous, Churchlike, Churchgoing, Devout, Sacred, Churchly, Pious, Interfaith, Spiritual

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Denominational, Faiths, Theological, Secular, Religion, God fearing, Scrupulous, Churchlike, Churchgoing, Devout, Sacred, Churchly, Pious, Interfaith, Spiritual

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Department would allow Federal financial assistance to support religious instruction, religious worship, and proselytization.
The National Council of Religious Communities continued its efforts to promote religious tolerance.
Religious freedom and diversity keeps the religious life of Canadians interesting.
Other religious groups may conduct religious funerals upon request.
EEO claims by employees of religious institutions who perform vital religious duties at the core of the mission of the religious institution.
Mandalas can also be crocheted as a part of your religious practices because they can significantly denote the religious signs of various religious cultures.
Human rights groups and religious authorities accused the security forces of abuses and religious suppression when dealing with minority religious groups.
These activities included assembling for religious worship, expressing religious beliefs in public and in private, and publishing religious texts.
The embassy routinely used social media to share messages of religious tolerance and highlight religious groups celebrating religious holidays or events.
Religious organizations include congregations, theological schools, monasteries, religious brotherhoods, missions, and administrations of religious associations consisting of religious organizations.

The qadis were usually pious specialists in Islam.
It was miri land of which the State revenues were dedicated to pious uses or the usufruct of which was dedicated to pious foundations.
One IFI targets the moderately pious consumer segment while the other targets the highly pious segment.
Joseph of Arimathea was likely a pious Jewish leader who was acting as a pious Jew in the burial of Christ.
Eventually he comes to the conclusion that what makes pious things pious is the fact that all the gods love it.
Charles was well educated and knew many languages, was just, pious and godfearing, loving the pious and hating evil.
If they were not pious and were embroiled in bad practices how could they seek pious wives?
Mahmood discusses how pious women acquire their identity of being pious by appropriating socially authorized forms of performativity.
We are to be pious, then, as pious as children, but not ignorant.
Baykal went on to say that the prime minister discriminates between pious and non-pious people.

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