NO YOU SEE PEOPLE HAVE THERE OWN IDEAS WHAT RELIGION MEANS..
I COULD ALSO SAY RELIGION MEANS WAR AND CONTROL..
But in this day and age when we say religion we mean someone who believes in a supreme being..
so if this is the case BUDDHISM IS NOT A RELIGION

We cannot recreate the meaning because society has nudged it in such a way. If you woke up one day and realized that society has labeled you as a murderer or thief and your face if on every billboard. You know for a fact this is not true, but because everything around you dictates this, does that mean that you personally begin to think this is so?