The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.