philosophy eventually hits the blinds because it has to, at some point, insist an "ought" is an "is". neitzche understood this. it resulted in the whole notion of the superman, a human turned god. he recognized you need a god for a moral code to have any solid basis, and since science and philosophy of his time "killed" god, something else needed to take his place. the inability of philosophy to turn the "ought" into an "is" is the great failure of philosophy. the fruitless search for a way around this problem brings you things like communism and it's horrors, philosophers justifying the fucking of children, encouraging the murder of this or that group, etc. and no, religion is not obsolete. it provides the moral scaffolding for a civilization, the almost invisible mortar that holds all the pieces together. philosophy is insufficient. the walls crumble. we see it all around us today. a civilization without a common and enduring moral vision is like a body with no immune system. it is too weak to fight off invasion, infection, corruption, and terminal degeneracy. you don't have to be a believer, you don't have to like it, but religion is an indispensable component of an enduring civilization. a civilization of enlightened agnostics and atheists can not withstand the storms of the world.
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