Religious philosophy
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A Religious philosophy can be compared to a "business philosophy" or a "political philosophy" or a "truck-driving philosophy". Philosophy comes from the Greek language and means "pursuit of wisdom". A philosophy starts as knowledge, one applies it, through trial and error this results in wisdom. The codified whole is then a philosophy.
Wisdom is generally considered to come about through experience. Young people with little experience are not expected to be wise, while older people with more experience are expected to have some wisdom. Wisdom is based on knowledge that has been tested and modified through experience. Decisions that stand up to the test of time and do the most good for the most people are considered wise decisions.
A truck-driving philosophy would include ways to drive safely under all road and traffic conditions, ways to maintain a truck so it could transport in safety, and ways to load a truck so its load was transported safely.
A Religious philosophy is be a body of knowledge about religion that has been tried and tested. The successes that result are kept and become the wisdom used as a philosophy. Codified and made whole, that wisdom would be a philosophy. Scientology [1] and Buddhism [2] are two applied religious philosophies. It is slightly redundant to say "applied philosophy" because every philosophy would ideally be the wisdom resulting from applying knowledge.
A religion (usually) is based on ideas about things with no physical manifestation. Religion addresses itself to things that are not entirely physical. A religion confronts ideas such as, "does a supreme being exist" and "are the thoughts I think original with me" and "am I something besides this physical body". Religion (usually) addresses itself to thought, spirit and god. A religious philosophy should contain that which can be known about these things. It would contain knowledge and it would contain the wisdom that has been developed from the application of that knowledge.
