You guys are tards. Buddha was himself a monk, and had many monks as followers.
ORGANISATION and SERVICE are different to religion.
Still emphasized it as a philosophy and not a religion.
Where does it say philosophies can't have devoted followers?
ONCE AGAIN, organisation != religion.
They can, but the whole structure and having a Buddha idol really doesn't go with a normal philosophy. I don't see Agnosticism, Absolutism, Actual Idealism or most of the below philosophies having organization (they shouldn't, or they would be religions). They have followers, but not fucking monks, shrines and statues. The idea of devotion is central to religion, you should question your philosophy more often than your religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philosophiesPhilosophies: particular schools of thought, styles of philosophy, or descriptions of philosophical ideas attributed to a particular group or culture