Philosophy Vs Religion

This week, we are focusing on the Cosmological argument and the Design argument and focus on how one can think about religion from a philosophical perspective. in my view philosophy are religion are in a way codependent of each other. forget the creator, forget the design argument, philosophy itself probably created a lot of religion. if you think about it, there is no proof that is god (or creator) no one has proof it and never done before but there is proofs that men those who found religions existed. (such as Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha... and so on). think of those founders as philosophers. they might have thought to create something to move the mass or unite the mass under one control. religion is one best way to unite or control a lot of people. those founders might have thought of creating a religion to make people working together. so you can probably argue that religion is part of philosophy. You can also say religion shape philosophy. The idea of human rights is base on religion. most religion teach followers to be good, to be kind to each other and to be fair to each other. Idea such as human rights came from thinking that were shape by religions, such as kindness and fairness. it is true philosophy is free thinking but religion still have a lot of effects on philosophy. even for a free thinkers, the way they brought up under a religion will effect on how they think. following same principle of a religion or going opposite of the religion will effect on the way people thinking. example - in the case of Martin Luther, he went the opposite way as Catholic church. he questions the wrong doings of the religion authorities and reform new church. if Catholic church wasn't doing anything wrong at that time there wouldn't have been protestant church today. so in a way, religion did shape philosophical prescriptive. Also philosophy can make people change religion convictions. Example - Once Buddha was passing by an atheist village. They asked him "Many has came and went and taught us their religion is the best and tell us to follow them. which religion do you think we should follow, who should we rely on? There was a long version of Buddha's answer but to make it short he answered "You are the one you should rely on, you shouldn't follow a religion because someone(including those who influences on you such as your parents) said so. you should listen to what they have to say and follow which you believe is right for you". in my point of view it is close answer to free thinking. so a philosopher would probably study more or listen to Buddha more because it is base on freethinking. so a free thinking atheist might convict because it free thinking. it can say same thing about Jesus. A philosopher might think "He is not afraid to die for his cause, there must be something he knew that i don't, maybe I should look into more about this Christianity." in some case freethinking followers might quit a religion because of some rules. example - if a religion that do not allow to read their teachings unless you are a true believer or follower. how can you believe first without reading about their teachings?. some religion forbid outsiders to enter their holy sites unless you are a believer or follower. free thinkers will think how can we follow you if we can't see what you offer inside? so yes in my view religion and philosophy are effecting on each other. if philosophy do not effects on religion or if religion do not effect on philosophy, there will be only one religion in the world because people will not question the religion they have and they will move on with one religion.