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Can There Be a Religion Without Religion?

Can There Be a Religion Without Religion?


Are the religious institutions created by man still necessary today in order for humans to have faith, to have religion? John D. Caputo says in his book On Religion that the answer to this question is no. He doesn’t say that the religious institutions that we have today should be destroyed or that religious institutions of any kind are bad or evil, not at all. Caputo is very religious, as can be inferred throughout his book, but he is also a philosopher, he sees the possibility of having religion without religion. His theory follows on the notion that God, as a concept, is the possibility of the impossible, that “ human experience, I am contending, comes alive as experience by and through the impossible.” (Caputo, Pg 109). The impossible is defined by Caputo as being outside the possible, it is the unseen, unforeseeable, unknowable future. But this doesn’t by itself lead anyone away from the structured religions, man’s...

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