Religion is an independent realm of human response to life situations and is unfailingly exhibited at all stages of human development which are postmoral . The fact-seeking scientist conceives of God as the First Cause, a God of force. The emotional artist sees God as the ideal of beauty, a God of aesthetics. The reasoning philosopher is sometimes inclined to posit a God of universal unity, even a pantheistic Deity. The religionist of faith believes in a God who fosters survival, the Father in heaven, the God of love.
Social service is the result of moral thinking and religious living.
Morality does not biologically lead to the higher spiritual levels of religious experience. The evolutionary picture of human existence begins and ends with religion, albeit very different qualities of religion, one evolutional and biological, the other revelational and periodical. And so, while religion is normal and natural to man, it is also optional. Man does not have to be religious against his will. The essential doctrine of the human realization of God creates a paradox in finite comprehension.