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102:3.1 [[Intellectual]] deficiency or [[educational]] [[poverty]] unavoidably [[handicaps]] higher religious [[attainment]] because such an impoverished [[environment]] of the [[spiritual]] [[nature]] robs [[religion]] of its chief [[channel]] of [philosophic] [[contact]] with the world of [[scientific]] [[knowledge]]. The [[intellectual]] [[factors]] of [[religion]] are important, but their overdevelopment is likewise sometimes very [[handicapping]] and embarrassing. [[Religion]] must continually [[labor]] under a [[paradoxical]] [[necessity]]: the necessity of making [[effective]] use of [[thought]] while at the same time discounting the [[spiritual]] serviceableness of all [[thinking]].

102:3.1 [[Intellectual]] deficiency or [[educational]] [[poverty]] unavoidably [[handicaps]] higher religious [[attainment]] because such an impoverished [[environment]] of the [[spiritual]] [[nature]] robs [[religion]] of its chief [[channel]] of [[philosophic]] [[contact]] with the world of [[scientific]] [[knowledge]]. The [[intellectual]] [[factors]] of [[religion]] are important, but their overdevelopment is likewise sometimes very [[handicapping]] and embarrassing. [[Religion]] must continually [[labor]] under a [[paradoxical]] [[necessity]]: the necessity of making [[effective]] use of [[thought]] while at the same time discounting the [[spiritual]] serviceableness of all [[thinking]].

102:3.2 [[Religious]] [[speculation]] is [[inevitable]] but always detrimental; [[speculation]] invariably falsifies its object. Speculation tends to [[translate]] [[religion]] into something [[material]] or [[humanistic]], and thus, while directly interfering with the [[clarity]] of [[logical]] [[thought]], it indirectly causes [[religion]] to [[appear]] as a [[function]] of the [[temporal]] world, the very world with which it should everlastingly stand in [[contrast]]. Therefore will [[religion]] always be characterized by [[paradoxes]], the paradoxes resulting from the [[absence]] of the [[experiential]] [[connection]] between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]] levels of the [[universe]]— [[morontia]] [[mota]], the superphilosophic [[sensitivity]] for [[truth]] [[discernment]] and [[unity]] [[perception]].

102:3.2 [[Religious]] [[speculation]] is [[inevitable]] but always detrimental; [[speculation]] invariably falsifies its object. Speculation tends to [[translate]] [[religion]] into something [[material]] or [[humanistic]], and thus, while directly interfering with the [[clarity]] of [[logical]] [[thought]], it indirectly causes [[religion]] to [[appear]] as a [[function]] of the [[temporal]] world, the very world with which it should everlastingly stand in [[contrast]]. Therefore will [[religion]] always be characterized by [[paradoxes]], the paradoxes resulting from the [[absence]] of the [[experiential]] [[connection]] between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]] levels of the [[universe]]— [[morontia]] [[mota]], the superphilosophic [[sensitivity]] for [[truth]] [[discernment]] and [[unity]] [[perception]].