Question by Master ß ƒƒƒƒ: Is religion just philosophy without freedom of thought?
My partner and I were discussing the differences between religion and philosophy.

Whereas philosophy is everchanging and malleable based upon a person’s own individual interpretation of life based on their experiences, religion is set in stone from the beginning.

She likened religion to a fly, it comes into life fully grown; you can’t ask a fly to grow new limbs or change its color, similar to the way you can’t change religious doctrine, it’s there when you emerge from the womb as-is.

Is religion just a kind of philosophy which, unlike philosophy, can’t be challenged in the here and now, but simply accepted as it has been for generations?

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Answer by CAustin
No, religion is malleable as well (modern popular Protestant theology, for instance, is nothing like its Renaissance predecessor). It’s a curious question – the two are actually kind of difficult to distinguish.

I was going to say that in religion, there is generally a gathering place and an organized authority, but this is sometimes the case in philosophy as well (think professors), and it’s not really always the case in religion (I can think of plenty of religious people who don’t attend a church, mosque, or other such gathering).

I was also tempted to say that you sort of have to pick a religion and believe everything they tell you to be true, whereas in philosophy you construct a worldview from bits and pieces you see as good ideas, but this also isn’t always true: many people combine schools of religious thinking, and many philosophers call themselves followers of specific philosophies (e.g. Kantian ethicists, Socratic scientists, et cetera).

It’s a good question – I don’t think there’s really a good distinction between religion and philosophy, with the exception that there are certain schools of thought that we recognize as ‘religious’ (e.g. Islam) and others that we recognize as ‘philosophical’ (e.g. Platonic Republicanism).

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