Is philosophy an unaccepted religion? If not why did religious people feared philosophers and killed them?

Answer 1

religious ppl feared philosophers bacause they spoke against, or differntly than thir religion, and "it is not their religion then it HAS to be wrong and you shall die!! ha ha ha." And honestly I think religion(s) are philosophies and ppl just take them way too literal.

Answer 2

The power and the fortunes of priesthoods depend on people accepting religious dogma. Dogma is belief accepted on faith; i.e., on bad epistemology, without evidence.

Today, religious leaders would go to prison if they tortured or murdered heretics, so their dogmas are exposed to skeptical inquiry. Since they can't intimidate the heretics anymore, they try to bamboozle them, instead. For example, if an atheist demands "evidence" from a priest that he faith is true, the priest will introduce non-sequiturs into the discussion and label them "evidence," although they are no such things.

But, long ago, the Church could arrest people for espousing beliefs contrary to orthodox dogma (heresy), and they could even arrest people for "impiety," which is a failure to espouse the orthodox dogma with the customary fervor.

Philosophers are by nature free-thinkers. That's the essential difference between a philosopher and a theologian. Philosophers think when thinking is dangerous, and they have a way of aiming for the subjects that are the most dangerous to think clearly upon in their times.

Once, philosophers challenged religion because religion was overconfident: it depended too much on the truth of beliefs for which there was insufficient evidence to pass reasoned judgment.

To find the philosophers today, all you need to do is watch and listen for someone whose words provoke immediate controversy, a witch-hunt, an instant "heresy trial," in which every little pinhead dogmatist feels an irrepressible urge to grandstand a politically correct reply. The fellow who can cause that reaction is a philosopher doing what philosophers have always done: think, and try to get their fellow men thinking too.

Answer 3

philosophy is thinking and the use of mind in all matters of life and all religions call for thinking. so there is no discrepancy between philosophy and religion
we need to distinguish between religion and the clergy so that we can understand why religious people are persecuted the philosophers and killing them because they think that the religion is the religious opinion of the clergy
that's why they imparts an aura of sacredness to them and they believe they possess the truth which Making them hear their speeches and then carry them out without the awareness or review or even discuss, in light of their belief that they do what the god want
And here comes philosophers and reveal the falsehood of this belief as the clergy are human beings do wrong and right and they have their desires and ambitions and aspirations, which are not always are legitimate. what makes them an enemies of the clergy who Representing an authority to prevent people from thinking in matters of religion and life
the clergy Feel fear of those philosophers who want to remove them this power and make the sacredness to the god only and give the people thier minds again so they inciting people against them and accuse them of disbelief and out of Paradise
then the extremists religions do acts of violence may come to murder against those philosophers.
The real cleric finds that philosophy is accepted with religion and the true religious people knows that God has granted us brains to think and therefore not a contradiction between philosophy and religion.
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Answer 4

Philosophy is NOT a religion, but religion can be a philosophy.

There were a huge number of Philosophizers in history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_philosophers

To call Jesus and Mohammad mere philosophizers is an understatement and insult to the respective religions. These historical figures have a much stronger standing, and there ideas were revolutionary and dangerous. That is why Jesus was killed for them.

The Buddha claimed to not be a god so he can only be called a Philosophizer. Confucius was a philosophizer, but then so was Bruce Lee and while he may have been a great man, a great martial artist and not a bad actor to put Bruce Lee into the same category as The Buddha, Confucius, Jesus or Mohammad just isn't right. Although there are rumors that Bruce Lee was killed because of his philosophy; he favored simplifying the martial arts and teaching secrets to Non-Orientals which made many of the Eastern Martial Artist Masters furious.

Nietzsche was a famous German philosophizer, but he never intended to found a religion and while he may have written critiques on religion he took the teachings of others and worked upon them.

What made Jesus, Mohammad, and the Buddha so revolutionary was the fact that they proposed new ideas and important ideas on not just how to live your life, but what happens after death. Nietzsche is famous for saying “God is Dead.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#The_Gay_Science; no, not that kind of gay).

Jesus claimed he was the son of God, Mohammad claimed God talked to him, these facts make these people much more important figures than say Freud, Bruce Lee, or Homer Simpson. Face it being a philosophizer is easy and anyone can do it, but founding a religion takes a very special person.

Freud thought all men wanted to sleep with their women, which is a pretty offensive idea, but not necessarily a revolutionary one. Buddha’s idea of their being no actual God or Moses and Mohammad’s ideas of “God told me this,” are much more radical and meant to be taken much more seriously.

Philosophy is a subject that people discuss and argue about, but rarely kill over; religion is a one subject that leads very often to murder, including mass murder, suicide and war. As to WHY some philosophers were pursued, persecuted and even killed by religious folk the most common reason is that their ideas threatened the religious power.

There was a early offshoot of the Catholics that taught that the Roman Church was corrupt and did not represent true Christianity. This happened in Spain and France after the Protestant Reformation and the Roman Catholic Church’s response was to start the Inquisition. It reached it’s height in Spain, but the Inquisition has never been closed, only renamed and its focus has been narrowed to doctrine of the Church. When Galileo put forth the idea that the Earth was NOT the center of the Universe he had to face the Inquisition and came close to being sentenced to death for his crime of looking though a telescope and showing it to people. Instead he recanted in public and before the church and so was sentenced to 300 years of exile in his tower. Galileo was not a philosophizer, he had no theories, only the facts; he was a scientist, but what he said proved to be dangerous to the power of the Church.
The War on Terrorism is a war the US states is being fought against criminals, but form Islamic fundamentalists these criminals are heroes and the US War on Terrorism is a War on Holy Islam itself. Needless to say this is NOT the intention of the US, we have a lot of Islamic citizens and we don’t hunt them down, kill them or imprison them for their religion. Since the War on Terrorism started it may seem like the US has been doing that to some Islamic, but the majority of Moslems have not been affected by this nor are they acting to revolt against our government. Islam is not a threat to the US because Islam is part of the US. Iranian Islam is a threat to the US because they want to supplant the US’s role as a world leader. Iran wants to rebuild the Persian Empire despite the fact that it was defeated by Alexander the Great a long, long time ago.

In short religion is more powerful then philosophy and much more dangerous. Religion is also a way that builds societies and foretells the destiny of mankind. Philosophy builds societies (Communism), but it doesn’t replace religion, nor does it always deal with the afterlife. Even when Nietzsche said “God was dead” it didn’t have enough effect on society as the complete denial or religion by the communists or when the Protestants separated from the Roman Catholic Church. Philosophy is NOT a religion, but it puts forth ideas that can be a threat to religion and that is what makes it dangerous.

Answer 5

Philosophy is a religion. But it is a religion that reasons using logic. All facts of philosophy are based upon clear, logical facts that no one can deny. This is what makes philosophical arguments so strong against conventional religions.

When Aristotle said that God is simply the "first cause uncaused", all the religious people would have been threatened. If their "god" was so surely God, then why would they feel that way?

I am an atheist. All my principles are based on philosophy.

Answer 6

Philosophy has kinda turned into modern new age metaphysics, in a way. It has re-emerged in a new form, and even today people fear it. I'm not sure why people fear it because all it's really about is being a good person and meditation. Some people think metaphysics is really evil, but all we do is meditate and learn how to think good thoughts! Geesh! It goes on even today. The cutting edge of any new thing is always feared, and that's what happened to those guys in the past.

Answer 7

"Philosophies" are ideas and theories on human life, earth and everything concerning why we are the way we are. The key difference between philosophy and religion is that philosophy does not require any actions. It does not threaten, nor promise, nor guide you. Religions tries all of it.

Philosophers were generally rather smart people (the ones we know about, anyway) and regularly criticised organised religion. Some of them believed in god(s), some didn't, but quite a few of them opposed religion and it's dogma. Leaders of religions were and are afraid of that.

Answer 8

Hai Gentleman,
Philosophy is a way of telling the truth non-religiously. As it was the truth everyone who were corrupt got scared of being recognised by their true self. Their evil.
I don't know if I am right but this is what I think is correct. Hope it is somewhat near the answer you are looking for. Thankyou!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Philosophy is not a religion.They are certain groups of people who keep arguing with whatever the religions say.They want to disprove whatever the relgions tell. Might be they can't bear the torture they killed them.LOL!

Answer 10

Forgive me if I am very incorrect, but was it not Socrates that said " the only true goodness is knowledge and ignorance is the only true evil"? Then later in life phrased his knowledge as non-existent, "all I know is that I know nothing".

Can you really blame people for his death more than you can blame him for his own demise?

I understand that he did not mean to admit being fool, but that his knowledge was beyond human understanding. He saw a hollow world, as I call, a ghost of existence.