Religion and philosophy are connected in the most intimate possible way. True religion can make no peace with a false philosophy, any more than with a science that is falsely so called. The term Father has been applied to God outside of Christianity. It appears here and there in the Old Testament and in pre-Christian Jewish writings subsequent to the Old Testament period. We may not be very orthodox in the theological sense, they continue, but of course you will recognize us as Christians because we accept Jesus' teaching as to the Father God.