How to treat religious belief!

As a cultural phenomenon, religion affects people's ideas and thoughts with a set of supernatural attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Faith refers to people's extreme respect and conviction for something or an idea or theory, and regards it as their spiritual sustenance, code of conduct and life guide. Everyone has faith. The question is what kind of faith to choose, scientific or unscientific. Even since the anti-scientific reform and opening up, with the change of people's lifestyle, the concept of China people has also undergone fundamental changes. When some people see the great contrast between the western reality and what they have experienced, their beliefs will be unconsciously shaken, and some people even believe in religion to comfort their hearts. Many places spend huge sums of money to build monasteries and engage in religious activities, which can illustrate this problem. According to statistics, at present, the number of people educated in China has reached 1 100 million, and among the new believers in recent years, young people account for about 20%-30%. Whenever Christmas comes, some boys and girls go into churches and temples out of curiosity or looking for sustenance. What is even more surprising is that the Orthodox Church, which was basically eliminated in Russia after the October Revolution, seemed to be revived overnight when the Soviet Union disintegrated 74 years later. After the "9 N" incident in the United States, as a cultural reflection on this incident, religious issues have once again attracted the attention and attention of the world. Samuel huntington, a professor at Harvard University in the United States, once pointed out in his book Clash of Civilizations and Reconstruction of World Order that the future world after the end of the Cold War will turn from political and military conflicts and confrontations in the past to conflicts and confrontations among different civilizations, especially religions. Besides, we also see the confrontation and coexistence between religion and science in history. People like Copernicus and Bruno are priests and scientific researchers. Newton, the founder of modern physics with the alias of God as the first driving force, fell into religious fanaticism in his later years. As an epoch-making master of science, Einstein's theory of relativity is atheistic, and he himself claims that he is not religious, but he advocates the establishment of a "universal religion". All this can't help but arouse our thinking! Undeniably, for thousands of years, religion has played a huge social role and had a far-reaching impact on the progress of human society. Religion plays an important role in the cultural development of human society, the spread and exchange of national culture, and the norms and constraints of people's morality. However, we should also be soberly aware that religion, as an understanding of the whole world, is not real, but an illusory reflection, and it is opposite to science. Historically, religion and science are two aspects of long-term conflict in human social life, and they are two fundamentally different world views; Methodologically, all religious doctrines are derived from a universal principle, and the starting point of scientific methods is not the universal principle, but the special facts. Therefore, scientific activity is a reasoning process centered on observation or experiment. From the perspective of truth, the religious doctrine system claims to contain eternal and absolute truth, while science has always acknowledged the timeliness of existing knowledge. The attitude of scientists towards things never depends on absolute authority, but on empirical evidence. The opposition between science and religion is essentially the conflict between observation or knowledge and authority or doctrine. The whole development history of modern natural science is also a history in which knowledge constantly defeats doctrine and science constantly defeats religion. Engels pointed out: "A religion is nothing more than a reflection in people's minds of the fantasy of external forces that dominate people's daily lives. In this kind of reflection, human power is manifested as superhuman power. " In modern society, the rule and influence of religious sects have changed greatly in form and degree, but they have not completely disappeared. If some people choose a telephone number, the car license should be "colorful" (auspicious numbers). In many places, there are phenomena such as geomantic omen, fortune telling, ancestor worship and genealogy continuation. All this requires us to be highly vigilant. Why do natural scientists also have religious beliefs? If we only analyze from the essence of religion and science, the two are incompatible. However, if analyzed from the viewpoint of connection and the actual situation of history, the opposition between religion and science is not static. For a period of time, when the conclusion of science conflicts with the teachings of religion, religion will exclude and suppress science; When scientific conclusions are generally accepted by the general society with their irrefutable logic, religion will also adjust itself. The Daguangming Building of the Great Buddha Temple in Emei Mountain, Sichuan Province was recently completed, and monks and laymen at home and abroad did their best. To adapt to the development of science. In modern times, some natural scientists have different religious beliefs, but they all have religious beliefs after all. The reason is that their religious background is the basis of their life. Whether at home or at school, they are shrouded in a strong religious atmosphere, and their religious beliefs have a profound historical tradition and psychological accumulation. Shallow empiricism is an important way to religion. Because they regard their career as a sacred cause and raise it to the position of ultimate concern, they lack correct and systematic theoretical thinking, so they may go to religion without understanding or ignoring materialist dialectics. In short, natural scientists, as a complex contradiction, are spontaneous materialists and atheists when conducting natural science research; But in social life, he may be an idealist or a religious person. Their religious beliefs are influenced by nature and cognition, but the most fundamental reason is their social living environment and social material living conditions. The development of natural science helps people to remove the shadow of God from all fields. As a scientific theory, Marxism is the world outlook and methodology of the proletariat. As an object of belief, Marxism has different characteristics from religious belief. Because it is a realistic, scientific and lofty belief, it is highly scientific, revolutionary, practical and class-oriented. It not only reveals the great historical mission of the proletariat, but also points out the most beautiful proletarian ideal of all mankind and inspires people to enter the highest spiritual realm. Some western scholars call Marxism a "new religion", which completely confuses the difference between Marxism and religious belief. Because Marxist world outlook is dialectical materialism and atheism; Religious world outlook is idealism and theism. Religion needs to "worship" and resort to emotional fanaticism, which is blind, while Marxism needs to "understand". Although enthusiasm and faith are needed, rational thinking and innovation are emphasized. Contemporary college students should fully realize that the establishment of people's scientific belief concept is developed in the repeated and tortuous struggle with wrong ideas and understanding, and it will never be smooth sailing. Therefore, we must use Marxist philosophy to mold our souls, firmly establish a scientific world outlook and materialistic beliefs, truly establish a religious view of scientific atheism, and be a truly conscious scientific atheist. At the same time, we should vigorously advocate and strengthen the dissemination, publicity and education of scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific ideas and scientific spirit, constantly improve the quality of scientific culture, strive to update our own scientific and cultural knowledge and track the frontier issues of science, and ask more questions in everything. It should be noted that in a transforming society, we need not only strong scientific and intellectual support, but also advanced ideological and moral and spiritual motivation. Especially when people's material needs are basically met, the spiritual and cultural needs will be more intense, and the construction of advanced ideology and culture will be more important. Therefore, we should have a scientific critical spirit, actively carry out the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, and make ourselves grow up in the resolute struggle against all theological superstitions and fallacies.