The Holes in Everyone

I've come to the conclusion in preparing for my final exams that the ultimate wall any secular philosophy will find itself pressed against when attempting to grasp the world is its understanding of theology. The inability to grasp, or apathy towards grasping, the essence of the divine or the divine as a source of origin and influence is what hinders these philosophers from actually being able to succeed at what they are attempting. Granted, many aren't really attempting anything, and that by their own admission. Anyway, they construct almost every argument on the foundation that the divinists are categorically wrong about the source of humanity, even if this construction is by assumption or omission and not directly stated. As I sit here reading through lecture notes I consistently see hypotheses about what it is that makes humans different from the rest of the creatures on earth. Among most, Althuser being a possible exception, there is the basic assumption that humans are different in some way. While Althuser does ask "what if we aren't different", none that have been popularized by the institutions seem to swallow their pride and ask "what if religion is right? What if the essential human element is divine and not behavioral?" See, the most common answer about what makes humans unique is that we are symbol using creatures, but as we've analyzed the nature of a symbol it really is anything with meaning. Well, animals use symbols. Peacock feathers are a symbol that other peacocks understand and use to communicate. Wolves wandering around urinating on things are using a symbol parallel to a barbed wire fence and "no trespassers" sign. We are not alone in being symbol using creatures. Something else makes us different.