Question by chevyloo487: Whats the difference between Religion and Philosophy?
I mea think about it we think these things are good, these things are bad, we should do this so often. Even thinking about a higher power is a philosophical debate, so whats the difference between religion nd philosophy.
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Answer by pab philosophy says that there is nothing taken for granted…there is no default answer, nothing that shouldn’t be questioned
religion very much does not say that
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Question by Antrobus: Book suggestions for learning about Native American philosophy and religion?
Curious about the philosophical and religious beliefs of Native Americans. Any suggestions would be a real help.
Thanks.
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Answer by Jareth’s Trousers I remember reading something for a college course, and I’m pretty sure it was Black Elk Speaks. It is about Black Elk and his experiences more so than a general overview of all tribes.
I found it on Amazon. Read the description and see if it fit what you’re looking for.
Question by aedgagt: Whats the difference between philosophy and religion?
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Answer by Phil S A philosophy is an outlook on life and how to live it. A religion is a set of beliefs regarding one or more deities. Most religions come with a philosophy (a view on how you should live) but philosophies dont come with a religion.
Question by Gloop: Can anyone compare and contrast philosophy and religion?
I need help comparing philosophy and religion
Can you guys help by listing how they are different and how they are the same?
Some links might help;
Thank you
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Answer by Siddhartha Philosophy had 2 children…….Science & Religion. They haven’t always gotten along.
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Question by Aztrik: Which Universities offer masters degrees in Religious studies, or the philosophy of Religion?
I want a school that will alow me to study in depth a wide variety of religions in an objective comparitive manner. and also prepare me to teach religious studys courses on a college level. I am not intrested in a simminary school.
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Answer by sbjohns Look it up on Princeton Review’s website–you’ll have to sign up for an account but it saves which schools fit your profile. That way, you can see which schools offer degrees that fall into the “religion” category and weed them out from there.
Question by Bethany: Can you briefly introduce, define and/or clarify the “philosophy of religion” ?
I would appreciate an unbiased approach to this topic using only your own personal point of view or expertise because I can always search the websites for myself.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Question by lilcutie: how might feminist philosophy of religion approach the question of the nature and existence of God?
Would it be any different to a male dominated responce?
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Answer by Just a Nobody Explain the feminist philosophy of religion. Also which religion? Religion is a vast plethora of beliefs. No one will defend them all. I don’t agree with ALL religion.
Whenever individuals explore and analyze religion, one common, but unfortunate word people use is,‘cult’. Whenever people don’t like religious or spiritual groups, it’s not uncommon to bring up the word ‘cult’, with no real comprehension of the difference those and legitimate organized religions. The reason for this is actually very simple to see.
For example, in the event you fail to follow Christian Biblical concepts strictly, the Christian Protestant Fundamentalists think you a cult. Although they perhaps originally intended that to demean only those Christian denominations that somehow “were misguided”, that definition now extends clearly also includes Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, … In fact, because at least 2/3 of the world’s population doesn’t identify with any sort of Christian, almost 70% of all of us are therefore ‘members of a cult’.
But, the problem goes even deeper than that. The Protestant fundamentalists have continued to expand their cult list by including Roman Catholics along with all Easter Orthodox faiths, over a disagreement over the number of sacraments there are. By those standards, 93% of the people on the planet are involved in cults. To take it 1 step further, they also think most other Christian Protestant groups to have fallen out of compliance with biblical fidelity. So, for these men and women, virtually the only singular group of people on the planet who aren’t in a cult is them!
Whenever different groups examine these extraordinarily strict doctrinal interpretations, they frequently believe that anyone following them has lost all individualized thought, and must therefore be a member of a cult. To much of the rest of the planet, it’s actually these biblically strict, narrow groups who are the true cults. Taken together, that includes everybody. Everyone on the planet is a member of a cult — according to somebody! The Baptists are pointing fingers at the Catholics who are pointing fingers at the Protestants – and everyone is pointing fingers at the Mormons.
Whenever you paint anything with such a broad brush, it’s pointless; as Joey on ‘Friends’ once said, “The point is Moo — because who cares what a cow thinks?
So, is there any way to redeem the word, so it can have some meaning of value? The main issue is that those who are creating the definitions are lacking neutrality. They’ve got an agenda. The thing we need is someone else to give us a neutral means to identify a cult — someone without a personal interest in the decision. That individual can be the ‘anthropologist of religion’.
An anthropologist of religion is someone who studies the field of religion from a scientific standpoint. Sometimes they’ve got a particular religion to which they adhere, and other times they don’t. This will make some members from the organized religions rather uncomfortable. If the anthropologist belongs to a religion — any religion — the other people scream “bias! bias!”, and everything the anthropologist has to say must be wrong because they’ve got this personal bias.|If it happens that the individual belongs to a particular religion, all the others shout, ‘Bias! Bias! — and ignores anything stated.
If, on the other hand, the anthropologist doesn’t take part in any specific religion, the others scream “atheist! atheist!”, and everything this anthropologist says has got to be biased on the fact that they’re simply opposed to all religious beliefs. Drama and accusation aside, how do these neutral parties define cults?
Usually, the majority of them define a cult by using a specific ‘five point system’. The answers to the the following questions will make it clear whether or not the group is a cult.
These are:
1. Does the group have a charismatic, strong leader (or leaders)
Two. Does the group squash individuality as well as independent thought?
3. Is there a denial of intimacy by excluding or alienating friends or relatives?
Four. Do they apply financial pressure and abuse for the welfare of the group, even at the personal expense of the adherent?
Five. Does the group keep its members separated from their surrounding community?
Even using this approach, the problem is that it still isn’t black and white. If all 5 questions are answered “yes”, then it easily qualifies as being a cult. Obviously, if every one of the answers is no, then it’s absolutely NOT a cult. If it were only The hard part is when, as is the case with most groups, the answer is “yes” to a number of questions between those two extremes. you are unlikely to find any solid answers, so the best we can do is really a sort of sliding scale.
It’s always easy to handle to fully grasp with a real-life situation.
One Case Study of a Cult — The People’s Temple. This is the title of the church founded by the Reverend James Warren “Jim” Jones — over nine hundred folks that committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana back in 1978.
Ask yourself those aforementioned five questions:
(a). They had Jones as a leader – strong and charismatic.
(b) they thought as a group and weren’t allowed to have any ideas to call their own.
(c) they ended encouraged strongly to exclude their friends as well as relatives from every aspect of their lives and their church activities.
(d) The members more than tithed, they basically gifted all everything they owned to the church, and were in turn cared for by the church (the group was entirely communist);
(e) When their isolation from the surrounding community began to break down, they relocated to a remote spot inside the jungles of South America.
All five factors had been met, so they clearly were a cult.
A 2nd Case Study – Jehovah’s Witnesses. Founded in the late 1800s by Charles Taze Russell, these are the folks that you are likely to come across when they knock on your door.
Let’s compare them to the same five questions:
(a) They do not have a particular leader, strong or otherwise.
(b) They believe that as a result of independent bible study, everybody will eventually come to the same conclusions that they have.
(c) Witnesses ask people they don’t know as well as relatives to teach what they think they have learned;
(d) While it’s frequently true that Witnesses devote a lot of their time and effort trying to convert others, there does not appear to be any monetary pressure – not any more so than any other church encourages tithing.
(e) It’s their lack of separation from the nearby community that often has them at odds with their neighbors.
They meet none of the criteria. Jehovah’s Witnesses are definitely not a cult.
Bottom Line: determining properly whether a group is a cult is unrelated to their biblical interpretations, and needs to instead be determined by sociological criteria unrelated to the religious position of the group. Whether cults are dangerous or not depends on which cult. Just because it’s a cult, does not make it automatically dangerous, but any one or any thing that discourages independent thought, is ultimately bad for you.
This is an excerpt of 1 lesson (of 30) from the Master of Religious Philosophy course offered through the Universal Life Church Seminary. We have many courses available and each one carries with it a degree at the end of the course.
Kevin is a student of psychology and spiritual studies and a minister at the Universal Life Church .
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web, answers questions submitted through YouTube — www.freedomainradio.com
Question by busty_brunette: How might a feminist philosophy of religion approach the question of the nature and existence of God?
Would it be different from a male’s approach
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Answer by iansamadhi Actually it already exists. In Egyptian (Nut) and Pantheistic (Gaia) religions.
The typical male based religion will use a creator God metaphor, who makes things, and sets up the universe as a system of government. with God as king.
The typical female based religion views the world as an organic entity, a living whole, coming out of the womb of nothingness; alive now, as opposed to a machine, set in motion by a manufacturing creator, at sometime in the past.
The West holds rationalist philosophy in high esteem. In fact, modern western civilization is just as much a Greco Roman society as it is a Christian one. All the while science is overshadowing religion more and more with every passing year. And science comes directly from the Greek Philosophical tradition of deductive reasoning. Philosophers, I’ve heard it said, only worship truth and truth only. Significantly, truth can only be arrived at reason, and reason means thought.
In Western society philosophy is not just respected, it is noble. And practicing it ennobles. Greek and Roman mythology are also very much alive in the West, and while Gods are not worship outwardly in temples, they are worshiped in Western hearts. In fact, great Christian religious works such as Dante’s Inferno are replete with the appearance of the Greek gods. But all this is not surprising: the foundation of modern Western culture is Rome, not ancient Israel, and while Christianity became the official state religion, history shows that a newly adopted religion always mingles alongside the old one.
And this is true of philosophers, some of whom even had a hand in writing parts of the New Testament. But Greek philosophy is unique in the world because it begins with the supposition that man is rational and that good and virtue can be obtained through correct reasoning. In other words, rational thinking will always result in a truthful deduction.
The problem though is that, in fact, man is not rational and never has been, making it nearly impossible for him to think rationally. By certain methods a person can arrive at certain predictable observations that lead to the useful tool of science. But humans can never arrive at absolute truths about mans subjective nature. And this is where we are going terribly wrong.
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Noam Chomsky speaks at Clark University, Worcester, MA (USA). April 12, 2011. Courtesy of Team Good. Video Rating: 4 / 5
