"philosophy" of Religion

[zinnat13]

Religion = Rely + Legion

As a thumb rule, religion is such a particular perception, on which a particular legion relies.

That relied perception may be right or wrong, good or bad and even old or new.

But, a society cannot survive without a religion, again right or wrong.

If you destroy one, the next most widespread perception would sit on the thrown by default.

This is inevitable and necessary too othewise anarchy would completely take over the society.

Since long, all classical religions are losing grounds and the most upcoming one is American Life Style.

with love,
sanjay

[QMan]

I don't think that religion is a lifestyle. I would categorize it more as a deliberate commitment, which places demands on you that to many are simply too inconvenient. Hence religion suffers. There is always a revival of religion going on that is happening below the radar for many and therefore escapes their awareness.

Meant to append this YouTube link to the Dr. Mary Neal video, which is easier to get to. This is one example of how religion will remain relevant.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wW2TLZLYgm ... W2TLZLYgm4

Another one is a link to what the Blessed Mother, Mary, said about the seemingly confusing fact that there are so many religions.

Copied from Medjugorje web site:

October 1, 1981

Are all religions good?

"Members of all faiths are equal before God. God rules over each faith just like a sovereign over his kingdom. In the world, all religions are not the same because all people have not complied with the commandments of God. They reject and disparage them."

http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje-me ... mainform=1

[bergie15]

Philosophy of religion is not only for creationists and spritualists. It discusses many different topics besides God, theism and atheism. It includes topics such as ghosts and near-death experiences also (which happen to be very interesting). It is not only dealing with the god question.

[The Voice of Time]

Philosophy of religion is not only for creationists and spritualists. It discusses many different topics besides God, theism and atheism. It includes topics such as ghosts and near-death experiences also (which happen to be very interesting). It is not only dealing with the god question.

Creationism is not so much philosophy as theology (though they might try to make appeals to the philosophically inclined, though that's pretty much a big fail, and it falls back to theology), and theology is not philosophy. Spiritualism is neither philosophy.

Philosophy of religion is not about ghosts or near-death experience, those aren't even questions of religion but general superstition and theology. Philosophy of religion would be for a questioning of the moral foundations, the whatabouts of the existence of religious phenomena, the experience of religious phenomena, the rules of thought governing such thinking and the whatabouts of the way in which we attain knowledge about religious phenomena.

[Immanuel Can]

Creationism is not so much philosophy as theology (though they might try to make appeals to the philosophically inclined, though that's pretty much a big fail, and it falls back to theology), and theology is not philosophy. Spiritualism is neither philosophy.

Well, theology would be a science of sorts (sort of like Psychology or Sociology are involved in the realm of human phenomena) if "God" actually falls into the category of "the real." And that's the vexed question. We cannot say what theology *is not* until we answer that question first.

If you have evidence that warrants the final dismissal of the idea of "God" from the realm of "the real," then I'd be interested in seeing it. But until that's done, wouldn't we be more rational to leave open the possibility that Theology means more than you seem to suggest?

If God exists, then Theology would be the study of His identity and purposes, which (since it could incorporate data) could be done on the same sorts of rational methods we use for other questions about "real" things...such as that logic applies, contestable premises and hypotheses are involved, evidence is relevant, and so forth.

Philosophy of religion is not about ghosts or near-death experience, those aren't even questions of religion but general superstition and theology. Philosophy of religion would be for a questioning of the moral foundations, the whatabouts of the existence of religious phenomena, the experience of religious phenomena, the rules of thought governing such thinking and the whatabouts of the way in which we attain knowledge about religious phenomena.

Hmmm...got to agree with VOT here. Philosophy of Religion would have to have some sort of rational structure, criteria, logic and discipline to qualify as philosophy. And whether it does, or whether its structures and topics are actually imaginary goes back to that primary question: are we dealing with anything "real"? But then it would not be mere Phenomenology, not mere cataloguing of what people "happen to believe," any more than "Science" could be right said to be the study of "what scientists happen to think."