Religious affairs management adheres to the principle of protecting what is legal

Religious affairs management adheres to the principles of protecting the lawful, suppressing the illegal, curbing extremism, resisting infiltration, and fighting crime.

Protecting legality means respecting citizens’ rights to freedom of religious belief, including citizens’ rights not to believe in religion, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of religious groups, religious schools, religious activity venues, and religious clergy in accordance with the law, and protecting The normal religious activities of religious clergy and the protection of the normal religious activities of religious believers.

Suppressing illegality is an integral part of protecting legality. Only when illegal religious activities are effectively suppressed can religious activities be regulated and orderly. We must resolutely curb religious extremist ideas and deal with criminals who use religion to deliberately sow ethnic relations, undermine ethnic unity, and engage in ethnic separatism and violent terrorist activities, regardless of their ethnicity or religion. We must all crack down resolutely in accordance with the law.

We must always adhere to the constitutional principle that our country's religious groups and religious affairs are not dominated by foreign forces, and resolutely resist the infiltration of foreign forces using religion. Hostile forces and lawless elements carry out illegal and criminal activities under the banner of religion, which is a contest between ourselves and the enemy. These activities undermine the unity of the motherland and national unity, infringe on the rights of citizens, seriously endanger society, and must be cracked down in accordance with the law.

Religion is a special social ideology. Religions in a collective society can be classified into primitive religions, national religions, world religions, etc. based on the history of religious development. Religion has the ability to make religious believers act. If a religion promotes positive thoughts, it will undoubtedly enable religious believers to make behaviors that are beneficial to society. It can make people stop evil and practice good, punish evil and promote good.