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Religion as profound conviction and religion as a social inheritance are vitally different. Philosophy examines religion as profound conviction because it is not the monopoly of any particular race or land but is the possession of all. There is no single religion with which philosophy identifies itself. It cannot accept what is not proved true; it may not regard a belief as false but it cannot use it as true. It does not deal in a priori reasoning; it assumes nothing and is thoroughly agnostic at the start. Faith and philosophy are like the lion and the lamb--they cannot easily bed together! Consequently, philosophy's approach to religious questions is comparative in method and eclectic in spirit.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 42