THEOLOGY VS. PHILOSOPHY
The word "theology" comes from the Greek words "theos" (God) and "logos" (discourse or study), or "the study of God". The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek words "philein" (to love) and "sophia" (wisdom), or "the love of or the search for wisdom".
Today, those words have been corrupted so that whoever studies scriptures of one religion or another is incorrectly classified as a theologian, even though they may know nothing about God except what they read, or what others teach them about God. They do not study God - they study books that are supposed to be "the truth" about God, when in fact, these books at times, contain blasphemies. These so-called theologians are nothing more than biblicists.
A philosopher today is considered an atheistic rationalist or a theistic rationalist, although not by their own choosing. By no stretch of the imagination, philosophers today know more about God than these self-proclaimed theologians. The reason for the animosity shown by today's "theologians" toward philosophers is that today's philosophers are correctly pointing out the incompatibility between what these self-proclaimed theologians believe and teach about God - and what are the real truths about God. For example, there are theologians who teach that God is comprised of three persons, whereas, philosophers can prove that God is unity, indivisible, and could never be composed of three persons, or three any things for that matter. That is because the philosopher can prove that God is the Uncaused Cause (singular), the Prime Mover (singular), the Infinite One (singular), the Eternal One (singular), and so forth, thereby, refuting the claim of these self-proclaimed theologians that God is three persons.
Today's so-called theologians teach that God could become something God created, such as, God could become a man, an animal or a thing. Philosophers can prove that God cannot become anything because God is immutable, and by becoming something, God would have to change, and be posterior to Himself, which is absurd. If God could be something He created, God would be an effect. God is the Uncaused Cause of all that is, and therefore, God could never be an effect.
Today's so-called theologians cannot refute philosophers who are considered theistic rationalists, so they instead attack atheistic rationalists (John Dewey, etc.) who try to use philosophy to prove the non-existence of God. In fact, the writings of Greek philosophers such as Aristotle are used today in Christian universities - to prove God exists. These writings were translated by Thomas Aquinas and are called the Thomistic proofs of God's existence. These Aristotelian translations were incongruously adapted to Christian theology.
So that when the Greek philosophers provided rational arguments to prove God exists (by another name such as the Prime Cause and the Prime Mover), those writings were banned by the church. But when the Church took those same proofs and "Christianized" them in the Summa Theologica, they were blessed by the Church. The problem arose, however, when the Church chose arguments that blended into their faith, and discarded arguments that refuted the myths in their faith.
The myths being that a man can be God, and God can become a man. Additional myths, such as the trinity doctrine, necessarily flowed from that basic myth, and were incongruous with some of the Greek writings. The incongruity is very evident in the Summa, as well as, the Athanasian Creed. The Summa, for example, in one part, adequately proves that God is unity and indivisible, but in another part, where the writings argue that God is a trinity of persons, it is incongruous with its previous argument that God is unity and indivisible. When arguing for the trinity of persons, as defined in the Athanasian Creed, it argues that all three persons are distinct, and further argues that all three persons are innascent, infinite, and so on. The argument, unknowingly, is attempting to prove that there are three first causes, three prime movers, three necessary beings, etc. This is so absurd that it not only defies all logic, but it also insults the intellect, and blasphemes God's nature and person.
In conclusion, true theologians are those who know the truths about God through God's gift of reason. These theologians are sometimes called theistic rationalists, such as Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. False theologians are those who claim to know God through "holy" books which describe God as a genocidal maniac, for example, in 1Samuel 15:3. These false theologians fear theistic rationalists because theistic rationalists swiftly, smoothly and with a clear conscience expose the false theologians' blasphemous teachings.
God gave us the gift of reason, it is very precious, so do not fear to use it. God will bless you for it - over and over and over.