What is the difference between philosophy and religion,are they opposites?

Question

..religion is for narrow minded people as compared to philosophy

Answer 1

Religion is of the heart.

Philosophy is of the mind.

They don't contradict one another, they complement one another.

Answer 2

A more precise question is the difference between philosophy and theology. I was a philosophy & religion major in college. They differ in that they have different methodologies and often different subjects. But they can and do inform each other. Most philosophers prior to the latter half of the 20th century had a good grounding in theology, just as most theologians had training in philosophy. I am personally interested in philosophical theology and philosophy of religion. I see the two disciplines as being related in several ways, especially if the history of each field is taken into consideration. I took biblical hermenteutics in school before I took philosophical hermeneutics, which made far greater sense than taking one without the other.

Answer 3

Although their are quit few and perhaps to many wrong Philosophies, there are also fake religions, or Churches, but to my knowledge there can't be a true religion without a proving and true positive philosophy, but Unfortunate, there are many religions that follow the wrong philosophy or not philosophy at all?...

Answer 4

I think you are mistaken.
Personal philosophies mean one has reached a satisfactory conclusion (for themselves) about whatever the subject. The subject may be religion or politics, how to raise your kids----anything.
One can describe their own philosophy and if they wish include how they approach or how they conduct themselves as a result of having established a philosophy they are comfortable with and actually believe in.

Answer 5

I have a philosophy about Christian education. That means I have thought about education with a Christian prospective. You can have a philosophy of life, meaning you have thought about life and determined what you think about life. Your philosophy is influenced by your religion but both are not the same.

Answer 6

No, not at all. They very much compliment each other. I think you'll understand it better if you look at it like this: 1st. we have medicine that tells us about blood flow, heart beat, breathing, etc. 2nd. there is psychology that tells us something about our mental functions, wants, desires, etc. 3rd. comes philosophy by which we orient ouself in the external environment. And, finally, there is religion from which we ask if there is any purpose to everything, or if all we are engaged in is just a meaningless exercise in biology for no reason.

Answer 7

Philosophy is the subjective search for "truth." Once you have found what is true for you, you live your life around that truth.
Religion is a set of "truths" in which you're supposed to have "faith."
Whether the two are opposites is up to you.

Answer 8

Religion without philosophy is fanaticism.
Philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Answer 9

They are interrelated. Religion without philosophy is sentimentalism (sometimes fanaticism) and philosophy without religion is dry, mental speculation.

Answer 10

Philosophy hasn't anything to do with religion in itself, it doesn't talk about God, it talks about good and there is no heaven and hell, just good and evil and a heavy or light soul. Philosophy and religion don't have much to do with each other.

Answer 11

Its like asking what is the difference between science and a tree. Philosophy is the study of knowledge, how we come to know things, how we speak about and describe things and so forth, it is an unbiased enquiry.

Religion is not.