Is religion necessary for Wisdom?

The answer is no

No, for now atleast.

Because at the moment I do not have religion.

If I find wisdom without religion I've proven the answer to be no.

But if, in time, I fail to find wisdom, perhaps then I need to use religion to find my way.

I ask the question because I tried reading "Becoming Wise" by Krista Tippett, and it dismayed me because I felt that I had to be mystical and spiritual to be wise.  But it doesn't feel right to me that wisdom is the domain of the religious only.  For me the questions of wisdom are "Why do I do things that I don't want do to?" and "How do I make good decisions?".  I think the questions of "what is a good decision?" and "what is your nature?" follow on from these questions. These are also common religious questions.  But because religion discusses these questions and has answers, I'm not sure that it implies that religion is a element of wisdom. Religion seems to me to be regional. What some people believe, is probably different a short plane ride away. But wisdom should have universal truth to it. It should arise from the human condition itself. The questions of wisdom arise from the facts of being human. We humans do not act in a way that is consistent with our internal lives, and the beginning of wisdom is to ask why, and then to ask, how do we act and live authentically. A system of beliefs that invokes a spiritual domain with the presence of a divine beings does not necessarily follow to be a required element of the Wisdom Problem.