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==103:1. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION==

==103:1. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION==

103:1.1 The [[unity]] of [[religious]] [[experience]] among a [[social]] or racial [[group]] derives from the [[identical]] [[nature]] of the [[God fragment]] [[indwelling]] the [[individual]]. It is this [[divine]] in man that gives [[origin]] to his [[unselfish]] interest in the welfare of [[other]] men. But since [[personality]] is [[unique]]—no two [[mortals]] being alike—it [[inevitably]] follows that no two [[human being]]s can similarly [[interpret]] the leadings and urges of the [[spirit]] of [[divinity]] which lives within their [[minds]]. A [[group]] of [[mortals]] can [[experience]] [[spiritual]] [[unity]], but they can never [[attain]] [[philosophic]] [[uniformity]]. And this [[diversity]] of the [[interpretation]] of [[religious]] [[thought]] and [[experience]] is shown by the [[fact]] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_theologians#20th_century twentieth-century theologians] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philosophers_born_in_the_twentieth_century philosophers] have formulated upward of five hundred different [[definitions]] of [[religion]]. In [[reality]], every [[human being]] defines [[religion]] in the terms of his own [[experiential]] [[interpretation]] of the [[divine]] [[impulses]] [[emanating]] from the [[Thought Adjuster|God spirit]] that indwells him, and therefore must such an [[interpretation]] be [[unique]] and wholly [[different]] from the [[religious]] [[philosophy]] of all other [[human being]]s.

103:1.1 The [[unity]] of [[religious]] [[experience]] among a [[social]] or racial [[group]] derives from the [[identical]] [[nature]] of the [[God fragment]] indwelling the [[individual]]. It is this [[divine]] in man that gives [[origin]] to his [[unselfish]] interest in the welfare of [[other]] men. But since [[personality]] is [[unique]]—no two [[mortals]] being alike—it [[inevitably]] follows that no two [[human being]]s can similarly [[interpret]] the leadings and urges of the [[spirit]] of [[divinity]] which lives within their [[minds]]. A [[group]] of [[mortals]] can [[experience]] [[spiritual]] [[unity]], but they can never [[attain]] [[philosophic]] [[uniformity]]. And this [[diversity]] of the [[interpretation]] of [[religious]] [[thought]] and [[experience]] is shown by the [[fact]] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_theologians#20th_century twentieth-century theologians] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philosophers_born_in_the_twentieth_century philosophers] have formulated upward of five hundred different [[definitions]] of [[religion]]. In [[reality]], every [[human being]] defines [[religion]] in the terms of his own [[experiential]] [[interpretation]] of the [[divine]] [[impulses]] [[emanating]] from the [[Thought Adjuster|God spirit]] that indwells him, and therefore must such an [[interpretation]] be [[unique]] and wholly [[different]] from the [[religious]] [[philosophy]] of all other [[human being]]s.

103:1.2 When one [[mortal]] is in full [[agreement]] with the d [[philosophy]] of a fellow [[mortal]], that [[phenomenon]] indicates that these two [[beings]] have had a similar [[religious]] [[experience]] touching the matters concerned in their similarity of philosophic religious [[interpretation]].

103:1.2 When one [[mortal]] is in full [[agreement]] with the d [[philosophy]] of a fellow [[mortal]], that [[phenomenon]] indicates that these two [[beings]] have had a similar [[religious]] [[experience]] touching the matters concerned in their similarity of philosophic religious [[interpretation]].