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Schopenhauer said "Religion is the metaphysics of the people" and Nietzsche later said, making this point more specific, that "Christianity is the Platonism of the people."
The way I interpret this is philosophy deals with the ultimate questions but only the top intellects can understand a proper discourse on these questions, a la a philosophical discussion.
But everyone is concerned with these ultimate questions and the answers to them, like how did the universe originate, how did humans come to be, what is our role in the universe, what are supposed to do, is there life after death, how do we know what we claim to know, what is good and what is evil etc. etc.
So, the people, who are not intellectual enough to deal with these ultimate questions properly in very cerebral ways, want these questions and their answers dumbed down to a level they can understand, and the simplest way to dumb down discourses on these questions and the answers this discussions have provided is to transform these discussions into a narrative, a story.
So, religions make philosophy accessible to the people, aka the masses, by turning philosophy into stories with heroes and villains who fight each other and, in so doing, teach moral lessons and provide answers to these ultimate questions in a way that ordinary, non-philosophical people can understand. Hence Christianity being a narrativized version of Plato and the ensuing tradition of Platonism or the lineage of Platonic thought.
And what is more, when philosophy is religified, or transformed into a religion by way of narrative, not only is philosophy simplified so that a lot of nuance is lost, but instead of leaving certain questions open and declaring we don't know the one true answer to each major question, which a lot of philosophers are okay with, religified, oversimplified philosophy offers a specific answer to each major question from among the possible answers that philosophers narrowed the scope of reasonable answers