This paper proposes a dialogue between the philosophies of Friedrich Hölderlin and Gilles Deleuze through the concept of caesura and argues that the caesura can be understood as a model for the critique of religion itself. Both thinkers, Hölderlin and Deleuze, can be read as offering philosophies of writing grounded in difference, interruption and transformation. Hölderlin's notion of Zäsur, introduced in the Remarks on Oedipus, plays a significant role in later philosophical debates, later taken up by Walter Benjamin and becoming central in Deleuze's Difference and Repetition as a way of thinking difference as event. Yet the meaning of the caesura diverges significantly between Hölderlin and Deleuze. In Deleuze, the caesura participates in a reconfiguration of philosophy after the "death of God", functioning as a break that liberates immanent difference. In Hölderlin, however, the caesura rethinks the relation between the divine and humanity not through its negation but through reversal and displacement. The caesura can be thus understood as a model for critique of religion itself: not as elimination or demystification, but as a shift in perspective that transforms the conditions of thought and writing. From this standpoint, philosophy of religion becomes a critical practice attentive to historical, political and textual discontinuities. - RELIGION AND CRITIQUE -