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(Stanley Ingber, 'Religion or Ideology: A Needed Clarification of the Religion Clauses' [of the US Constitution], Stanford Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Jan., 1989), pp. 233-333: 278-9.) This is not to say that religion eschews reason, rationality, and sensory experience but the trio fulfil a different function in ideology from their role in ...
Science is a method to can confirm or reject hypotheses and thereby establish fact. Philosophy can validate or reject reasoning, which is a useful tool when drawing conclusions from established fact. Religion is affirmation of faith, that is to say belief without relying on established fact. Dogma is religious code.
2. Religion is philosophy but philosophy is not religion; rather, it could be a form of religion. As the most general explanation, religion is about everything in relation to one cause and one end while philosophy is about different things in relation to no cause and different ends.
Theology (link to definition in Wikipedia) can have two meanings: 1. Theology is a rational study of the existence of God/gods and the nature of religious ideas. 2. Theology is simply a study of a particular religion (or all religions), really more the practice than the theory, but maybe a mixture. It seems from an immediate reading that ...
Wikipedia explains it as follows. The philosophy of religion has been distinguished from theology by pointing out that, for theology, "its critical reflections are based on religious convictions". Also, "theology is responsible to an authority that initiates its thinking, speaking, and witnessing ... [while] philosophy bases its arguments on ...
Both Science and Religion have an unfounded a-priori assumption. In Religion this is the belief that the Divine has manifested itself in some discernable way (otherway how would we know about it). In Science this is the assumption that the Scientific Method can be used to make usefull claims about the world.
The "slavery" here is psychic and social at once -- taking generalized repression as a sublime object of ideology, castration deified; Deleuze puts it this way: "A 'disinterested' love for the oppressive machine: Nietzsche said some beautiful things about this permanent triumph of slaves, on how the embittered, the depressed and the weak ...
The breakdown in the US is "68% believe in God, 12% are atheists, 17% are agnostics; 18% consider themselves religious, 37% consider themselves as spiritual but not religious, and 42% considers themselves as neither spiritual or religious; and 21% pray every day and 24% pray once a month".
I don’t think the question of separation of emotion from justification can be answered categorically. Buddhists practice Samadhi which seeks to purge emotions, is this dispassionate philoso
Nationalism is oriented towards the development and maintenance of a common communal identity based on shared characteristics typically including culture, language, religion, political goals and/or a belief in a common ancestry.