Both agree that people are subservient to God, inferior to God. Both perceive people as a creation of God, a servant of God. Religious institutions, East and West, attempt to overrule reality, the new concepts science and philosophy are beginning to understand, concepts that do not support the perception that people are subservient, that we have no purpose, that we are insignificant to God. Philosophy is a realm religious institutions have successfully relegated to an outcast existence, for it deals with the abstract. Science is a realm religious institutions have had difficulty holding down, for it deals with our concrete observations and curiosity.
Science opens up the realm of the concrete and philosophy opens the realm of the abstract.
Science and philosophy both attack not religion, but the basic perception of religious institutions regarding just who we are. Religious institutions, East and West, desire to overrule the small portion of reality science and philosophy are exposing. Science and philosophy are just beginning the unveiling of who we are, the unveiling of us as being a piece of God. Religions, East and West, desire to hold onto the perception of us as a subservient beings since this will continue to place us in the role of subservience to the church, to religions, to each other. Imagine we are a piece of God.