Faith, philosophy and religion

As long as you believe in one thing and an idea until you are almost uncompromising, it can be said to be faith. The object of belief can be concrete, abstract, systematic thought or illogical slogan. Therefore, faith has nothing to do with "God". Many people say they believe in themselves. Isn't that also a kind of faith? From this perspective, there are no people who have absolutely no "faith", only "know clearly what they believe" and "don't know what they believe".

But people are the product of environmental construction, so it is difficult to keep the self-centered "belief" unchanged. In order to make all kinds of choices in life regular and principled, stable logic is what people pursue.

Philosophy can guide people's thinking logic. So the word "ism" became popular and became people's ideological weapon. The history of philosophy based on written records is more than 2500 years, but we can't judge the historical length of human philosophical thinking by this. I think therefore I am, and philosophical thinking, as a human instinct, must be much earlier than this time. So what was the form or source of "philosophy" before this?

As a word that makes many people flinch, "philosophy" is the ultimate abstraction of human thinking, and "original philosophy" is bound to be an advanced spiritual activity. Through Chinese and foreign archaeology, we know that there are only a handful of human activities that conform to the "philosophy" attribute. Such as astrology, divination, sacrifice, witchcraft and so on. What's all this about? Is the theme of this article-religion.

At first, religion gave birth to philosophy; After that, "philosophy" shaped "religion" Both of them go round and round, constructing the culture of a specific group, and with the blending of eastern and western cultures, forming the "collective unconsciousness" possessed by human beings. Therefore, we can see the classification form of dividing regions by religious civilization, and we can always find common ground and keep differences in different cultures. Therefore, religious belief (belief in religion) is older than other beliefs in origin, and naturally it will have stronger cultural adhesion.

But apart from some famous religions, it is difficult for modern people to distinguish between "religion" and "philosophy" because the development of human history has gradually integrated them. For ordinary believers, there is not much difference between doctrine and philosophy. People can believe because they like a certain "truth", so will our ancestors do this? Whether in favor of the broad or narrow sense of evolution, the "survival of the fittest" in biology seems to be an axiom.

Therefore, even if social Darwinism gradually becomes a derogatory term, people will still acquiesce that people thousands of years ago did not have the level of cognition and judgment of today's people. Inferred from this, when did "religion" originate? Will someone be persuaded by a series of "truths" and then become a religious believer? Even if there is, how can the one who can convince people have higher wisdom? Inspiration?

In the late Neolithic period, human beings began to carry out religious activities in order to successfully deal with uncontrollable natural activities such as fertility, farming, disease and war by using supernatural forces. Since the pursuit of "supernatural", then the source of religion is not in the material world. Therefore, the fundamental difference between religion and philosophy lies in the understanding of the existence of "spiritual world". There is a saying of "absolute spirit" in philosophy, even scholasticism and so on, but the existence of "spiritual world" does not directly affect the existence of philosophy as a discipline. As for "religion", only when an objective "spiritual world" corresponding to the material world exists can religious activities have real effects. Let's take magic as an example to illustrate what is "really effective". When watching the magic show, we know that we have been cheated, and we are eager to be cheated. People know that the effect of magic has nothing to do with authenticity. Changing the "material world" with the help of the "spiritual world" is not like this. Although people are still eager to be cheated, no one will be satisfied without real and lasting results.

Since human civilization entered 2 1 century, various religions are still flourishing, and the protection of "spiritual world" is the core reason. Its strong cultural adhesion with philosophy brings different interpretations of "spiritual world". However, even after studying for thousands of years, human beings still can't understand a certain kind of religion today, because there are too many cases of being fooled by various true and false "spirits", too many different doctrines to explain "spirits", and too many religious customs and philosophical views that have met in history, so that we can't distinguish the original "truth". Therefore, people would rather not ask for a solution than be pragmatic, and they are more willing to deceive themselves.