are we scared to replace religion with say philosophy or Reason?

Answer 1

I think it's not about being scared , it's about that everything it's got it's own place, if you try and put religion through philosophy or reason then I think there will be no more religion. We like religion to remain as it is, it's good to know / believe there is a God watching everything we do , otherwise... who knows what would be left, u see what' s hapenning to those who have no God, but believe in some stupid virgins meeting them in Heaven instead God ......

Answer 2

We have:

Consider this:

The Christian religion (and I pick on the Christians here because that is the most dominant religion of our time, next to Islam and Judaism, which are all originated and branches of one another in the first place...) is a mere two thousand years old. Mankind has been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the Church, and so, if put into perspective, the Christian religion is but in it's infancy. In the times that many Christians so humbly leave out (or are uneduacated about...), Theologians and Philosophers were targetted as rhetorics, satanists, witches/sorcerers, and enemies of the Church. (The latter is more like it...) They proposed ideas that were based upon reasoning and fact, and encouraged people to think outside the box, so to speak. The Church, who had dominated most of the civilized world at the time, saw these people and their ideas as a threat, and sought to wipe them from the earth. They coupled this with fear mongerring of the people, convincing them (and unfortunately, we have all yet to wise up to these tactics...) that if they did not blindly believe in what the Church said/preached, they would surely be damned to death. They then gathered to compose the Bible, accepting those gospels that went along with what they wanted the people to believe, and nixing the majority of the gospels- gospels that gave a very different perspective on God, Christ, and the church. (i.e.- gospel of Mary, gospel of Thomas, etc.) Wouldn't you know it- it worked. And how! The same thinking continues today, and most people, following what they have been taught their entire lives (and I do not blame them so to speak...) refuse to acknowledge the fact that perhaps Christianity is not the only way- the true way. And with that, comes philosophy and reasoning. Luckilly, the Church has lost a lot of it's power and stronghold on society, and philosophy, reasoning, and rationality has become more and more acceptable. I say that, in the whole of historical perspective, it's only a mere matter of time- a few hundred years, perhaps, until we move on to bigger and better things.

Answer 3

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy most closely related to religion.

Personally, I don't see a benefit to replacing religion with metaphysics. Neither has concrete answers, and religions have thousands of years of tradition to support them. By tradition, I don't mean simply that they've had choir boys carrying candles in the same way for a 1000 years. I mean that there is 1000's of years of combined group thought on the same questions that metaphysics asks. In that sense, "tradition" is the group thought of past generations. It allows us to not re-hash everything that has been thought before.

Science itself relies on the combined efforts of past generations of people. If until now everyone has supported Newton's theories, then there must be something to it. So, we consider this tradition as a good starting place. We still question and test it, but we don't start a new each generation. We use their thoughts and studies as our own.

Religious people have thought about the basic questions of certain branches of philosophy for a long time. Why throw out thousands of years of progress? Within Metaphysics, there is also Philosophy of Religion.

All of this, of course, doesn't take into account those who say "My religion is correct and the Truth. God is omnipotent and omnipresent." If someone truly believes that, then this question isn't valid for them.

Answer 4

I read the answers for the first time because I feel the answer to your question is yes. I have wondered if it isn't time in society to have a subject in school on religion. Telling all all about religion. As you see most Christians will not intertain any question on any subject concerning Christian beliefs. I think they are afraid if they entertain any thought other than just have faith they will be doomed to hell. My friend spoke up to me on this subject and she was rather upset saying sure I do but we don't have to talk about it.

Answer 5

Yes. All of these things are simply "ideas" to explain life, but it has become a collection of groups that all have a favorite team they are backing: Born Agains are like Steelers fans, the Scientologists are Browns fans, and the Atheists like Miami.

So long as we all have something to complain openly about. All that arguing is now necessary for some people to prove their "worth."

Just reading some of these other answers can show you that. These people are terrified of different and new thinking.

Answer 6

Philosophy is a religion. Who says that faith is unreasonable.
For instance, Johann Keppler, one of the world's great scientific geniuses was a Christian
Why the capital R for Reason?

Answer 7

No, we should be willing to supplement religion with philosophy and reason.

Answer 8

look at what inspired religion... the same thing they rule through... threats, violence, they gained power through fear and they keep that pressure going... christians are blind to what they serve... to what they have become slave too.. what created religion is insidiously evil.. And one thing evil knows how to do is manipulate using fear... so in a way yes they are afraid... on the other hand to be free they only have to walk away from religion..

Answer 9

Well, If we want to advance we have to find the really causes of the things not only because "god wanted it, it happened", for that we have support on philosphy and reason, bacause how do you want to live, "with a sweet lie or with the crude truth"

Answer 10

Philosophy works for me.