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]]. |