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I tend to stay out of debate because I am uneducated and unread i.e. I have not the intellectual tools for defining a consistant viewpoint. But I do feel that philosophy as a structured approach to thought and ethical behaviour, and religeon as a structured approach to social interaction and views of our place in the scheme of things are interwoven and actually different viewings of that wonderful evolved reality - human thought.
It will take time to develop a Universal approach that realigns the contrary interactions of people. We will always disagree and shed enormous amounts of energy and anguish in the process. But a religeous person who uses the developed construct of their belief system to allow them a satisfactory awareness of life, and a philosopher who uses a different and no less rigorous system to do the same thing are not incompatable. They just act as if they were sometimes.
And also, a person who uses the "technology" if I may use the phrase, of their spiritual guides and writings to interact and interpret life - that person is being philosophical - they just are using different tools and a different focus.
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