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Granted that any religion has both a metaphysical and a moral aspect, in that it implies both the truth of certain metaphysical beliefs and the rightness of certain moral actions, the point to note is that religion as such is neither a metaphysics nor a morality. On the contrary, its own formulations of the beliefs it necessarily implies (i.e., its credenda) are always for the sake of one's so understanding oneself as also to perform certain actions instead of others, just as its own specifications of the actions it necessarily implies (i.e., its agenda) are, again, always for the sake of one's so understanding oneself as also to believe certain beliefs instead of others.

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