Is Philosophy a threat to Religion?

Religion is oftenly based on intense and mystical beliefs and personal experiences. Philosophy questions why. One off unrepeatable experiences can't be deemed absolute truth and furthermore why should a whole lifestyle be based on the experiences of a minority? Philosophy is also deemed a threat as it seeks to answer question religion asks too and attempts to answer. Why are we on earth? What happens on after death? How should we live? Philosophers since the time of plato have aimed to answer these questions with logic, something religion doesn't seem to like and attempts to discredit. For example the Bus advertisement stating "There probably is no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" received a huge backlash from the Christian community. So much so that the Christian party composed a bus advert in retaliation stating "There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life".  Even in the past St Paul wrote toe Colossians telling them not to be mislead by the useless teachings of the Ancient Greeks. The path of the critical thinker and the religious man have always clashed.

However if we delve deeper into Philosophy and indeed the past of Philosophy it is commonly used to back up or shed light upon the existence of key figures like God. There are reasons for believing in God and where there is reason there is philosophy. St Augustine used Greek philosophers Plotinus to shed light upon christian believes and St Aquinas showed how the theories of Aristotle could enrich and bolster Christian teachings. Philosophy and Religion have been in a relationship with one and other since the conception of both. There are also philosophical arguments used to back up religion such as the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the argument for design. As Francis Bacon said "a little philosophy makes men atheist; but a great deal reconciles them to religion". Philosophy and Religion in a way feed off each other to prove each other.

Personally i think that philosophy is not killing religion. It can be used as an effective tool to prove it and a better understanding of philosophy, research and religion can only lead to a logical understanding of faith.