[jerf]

It is people who stop the questions, not the religions. All world religions with some centuries on them have extensive philosophical and theological writings, some of the younger ones do too. It's a myth some find convenient to propagate that religions require you to uncritically swallow their ideas and yell at you if you slightly disagree. There are some people who do that, there are even places where they group together and form sects, but, well, have you noticed how non-religious people join in such activities quite freely, too?

[clavalle]

Somewhere, though, in those religions is the answer 'Because, God wills it so or says it so.' Everywhere that happens is a dead question.

[AnimalMuppet]

For an argument that that's exactly what we need philosophically, see "He Is There And He Is Not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer.

http://www.amazon.com/There-Silent-Paperback-Schaeffer-Franc...