ABSTRACT
Kant believed that authentic, moral religion is a vehicle for practical morality that could appeal to finite and fragile human agents so as to strengthen their moral resolve. Extensive and comprehensive discussion of Kant's views in his Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason would require a monograph in itself, and many have been published in recent years. While Schopenhauer elaborates at length on religion in after assessing that any political system cannot provide a proper orientation towards ethics and ascetics, this assessment comes off as somewhat strange and unprepared. The major boon of religion is that it can allegorically convey profound metaphysical insight and, as a result, lead to moral agency or even saintly self-abnegation. Religion is not to be made logical, intelligible or rational, and philosophy is not to be made religious. This is the first potential danger inherent to the practice of religion.
