What are the advantages and disadvantages of religious belief?

1. Religious belief entrusts people's expectation of fate and care for life. Correct religious belief can guide, correct and dominate people's social life and spiritual life.

2. In today's society, there are many people with good education, high quality and good cultivation who believe in religion; On the other hand, in fact, there are many positive and beneficial philosophical thoughts, cultural factors and profound knowledge in religious teachings and classic works.

3. Religious culture appeals to the ideal vision through the belief in religious morality, which has the function of reducing people's hatred for the dark society and longing for the ideal society.

For individuals, lofty moral beliefs, whether religious or secular, can form a guide to personal behavior and shape a perfect ideal personality. For society, good moral belief can purify social atmosphere, cultivate a good social development environment, ensure the stable development of society and promote the development of society to a harmonious and perfect state.

4. Take its essence and discard its dross. Useful religious beliefs will guide us.

Second, shortcomings.

1. Differences in religious beliefs will make some people use traditional religions or create cults to engage in illegal activities that endanger society.

2. There are also many feudal and decadent dregs in religious belief, which will corrode our souls and make it difficult to distinguish religion from science and superstition.

Religious belief is a kind of belief, which refers to the unswerving belief and wholehearted conversion of people who believe in a particular religion to the sacred things they believe in (including specific teachings, etc.). ).

This kind of ideological belief and wholehearted conversion is manifested in specific religious ceremonies and activities, and is used to guide and regulate one's behavior in secular society, which belongs to a special social ideology and cultural phenomenon.

Extended data:

The emergence of religion

In the primitive social stage, where primitive human intelligence and ability are underdeveloped, human beings are more and more confused and helpless about the mysterious forces of the movement of the sun, the moon and the stars, the existence of their own lives and trust, and have great fear and anxiety about death, and have an irresistible sense of worship for the huge supernatural and super-social forces behind the natural forces and social forces that dominate human destiny.

Therefore, people "look up" to this great power with a pious attitude, have a sense of trust and dependence on it, and hope to solve their fears and puzzles with his infinite ultimate power.

Humans constantly describe and express this ultimate infinite power as much as possible. In different stages of the development of human thinking ability and language expression ability, in different regions of living environment, the image and essential expression of this ultimate infinite power are different, and the religious classic system, religious rituals and rules and regulations formed are also different, that is, the external carriers and manifestations of religious feelings are also very different.

In primitive society, because people's brain thinking ability and language expression ability are quite low, they know very little about the world itself. Humans interact with insects, snakes, birds and beasts, looking for a unique interlocutor who can commit themselves to each other, and materializing this supernatural mysterious force, so there are different totem worship of various ethnic groups for various animals or trees, and a series of cumbersome customs and etiquette have been formed.

Witchcraft came into being at this time. Witchcraft shows the communication between human beings and this mysterious infinite power. When a major event happened in primitive society in China, people would ask heaven for instructions through divination and other means, hoping to get the enlightenment from heaven, so that major decisions could be made smoothly. In today's view, the development of our fuzzy mathematical decision-making theory has to be attributed to the inspiration and spread of this religious consciousness and behavior. There are many stories of prophets in the Bible. They just accept God's revelation, and then express and teach it to people, so that people's behavior conforms to God's will-that is, they are absolutely sincere to God and "love their neighbors."

In this ultimate infinite expression, every nation is influenced by its own cultural development, geographical environment and thinking language ability. So the ultimate infinity of each nation is presented in different ways. In ancient Greece, he was a polytheist headed by Zeus; In Hebrew culture, you must absolutely obey the Lord's instructions; In ancient China, this ultimate infinity was "heaven".

Heaven is not an infinite power of personification, and it is undoubtedly the same as the western "God". It arouses people's complex emotions such as gratitude, terror and worship with its formidable and awe-inspiring mysterious power. China people always strive to be have it both ways and do good deeds.

References:

Religious Belief-Baidu Encyclopedia