The difference and connection between myth and religion?

1, everyone thinks there is a god in the world.

2, all talk about good and evil, and persuade people to accumulate virtue and be good.

Most of them are handed down from the past.

The difference between the two:

1, myths and legends are mostly circulated among the people, or some scholars have compiled and recorded them according to folklore. There is basically no fixed audience for readers, which is suitable for most people to read.

2. Religion is the definition of belief groups in later generations. For example, Jesus spread his knowledge and views on life, the world and the universe to believers two thousand years ago and guided them to return to heaven. Later generations recorded what he said, which is the Bible circulated today. Those who believe in him will do as Jesus says, and if they meet the standards, they will go to heaven in the future. Sakyamuni's missionary work in India was similar to that of Jesus, just like his disciples recorded his lectures and wrote them into Buddhist scriptures for believers to learn. Later, he became an arhat, a bodhisattva or a Tathagata and went to the "world of concubines". Religious books are generally studied by believers, and the population is generally fixed.

3. Before practicing according to religion, supernatural powers can be produced, such as eminent monks, while myths and legends are only the behavior records of some sporadic enlightened people.

4. According to the Buddhist scriptures, when Yutangbola flowers are open to the world, there will be a wheel under the holy king to spread Buddhism among the world. Recently, it has been widely reported all over the world that "Youtambora Flower" was discovered. You can search Baidu.

Another point: myth is not superstition, but in the process of being passed down from generation to generation, it is inevitable that there will be some deviations. In today's empirical science, we haven't broken through our three-dimensional space, so we can't see the truth of another space. Some people say "myth", others say it's superstition. Because they only believe what they see with their eyes and their minds are not open enough.

At that time, Sakyamuni's disciples asked, "Master, I can't see the heaven you mentioned. How can I believe this is true? " Sakyamuni took him to a windowless house and said, there is an axe in the corner. Can you see it? Because the room was dark, disciple said he couldn't see. Sakyamuni said, "What is invisible does not exist?"

In fact, in physics, the world we see with our naked eyes only accounts for a very small part of the whole light wave, and more material worlds are invisible to our naked eyes. Some scientists speculate that there are dark matter and immaterial things. Therefore, some things that we can't explain for the time being can't be called superstition. In practice, these are all real and objective things.