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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 1.PROMOTES SOCIAL HARMONY RELIGION PROVIDES DIVINE AUTHORITY TO ETHICAL AND MORAL PRINCIPLES WHICH ALSO HELP PROMOTE UNITY AMONG PEOPLE. COMMON PARTICIPATION IN RITUALS TOGETHER WITH BASIC UNIFORMITY OF BELIEFS H...

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 1.PROMOTES SOCIAL HARMONY RELIGION PROVIDES DIVINE AUTHORITY TO ETHICAL AND MORAL PRINCIPLES WHICH ALSO HELP PROMOTE UNITY AMONG PEOPLE. COMMON PARTICIPATION IN RITUALS TOGETHER WITH BASIC UNIFORMITY OF BELIEFS HELP PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESIVENESS. POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 2. PROVIDES MORALVALUES IT PROVIDES A SYSTEMATIC MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH IN EFFECT DETERMINES ORGANIZED HUMAN BEHAVIOR. BY PROVIDING MORAL VALUES, ONE IS ABLE TO DISTINGUISH RIGHT FROM WRONG POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 3. PROVIDES SOCIAL CHANGE SINCE RELIGION IS A SO URCE OF MO RAL VALU ES,RELIGION PROVIDES SOCIAL CHANGE. AN EXAMPLE IS GANDHI’SS ATYAGRAHA, ADVO CATE THAT NO NVI OLENCE O F THE MIND CANLEAD TO THE REALI ZATI ON OF THE REAL NATU RE OFAN EVIL SITUATION AND THAT BY REFUSING POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 4. REDUCES THE FEAR OF THEUNKNOWN IN GENERAL, RELIGION HAS PROVIDED PEOPLEWITH ANSWERS THE UNKNOWN SUCH AS THEORIGIN OF LIFE AND THE CONCEPT OF AFTERLIFE. Explanations provided byreligions havereduced fears and anxieties amongindividuals and some religions have evenmade death a better alternative to livingthe uncertainty. POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 5. GIVES POSITIVE GOAL S IN LIFE PEOPLE WERE INSPIRED BY THE STORIES OFDIFFERENT PROPHETS FROM THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS, LIKE THAT MOSES,SIDDHARTAGAUTAMA, AND MUHAMMAD. THESE PEOPLE SHOWED HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE LIKE THEM WERE GIVEN IMPORTANT MISSIONS IN LIFE, POSITIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 6. GIVES A PEOPLE SENSE OFBELONGING JUST AS FAMILY, ETHNICITY, OR NATIONALITYGIVE PEOPLE A SENSE OF BELONGING, SODOES RELIGION. Belonging to a particular religionwhose memb ers share the same beliefs,practices the same rituals, and worship the same god , gives individual a senseof b eing in the right place with the right people. NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 1.AFFIRMS SOCIAL HIERARCHY THE TRADITIONAL CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA WOULD also refl ect how religion refl ects political and social structures since it propagated the Indiatha t people had to be subdivided into certain social classes with particular social roles and that the attainment of moksha (union ofuniversal sol and individual sol) woulddepend on how they performed their duties based on their d esignated NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 2. CASES DISCRIMINATION RELIGION CAN BE ALSO A SOURCE OF discrimination, or the prejudicial treatment of diff erent categories of people or things,especially on the basis of race, religion, age, or sex. In Islam, the practices of wearing the hijab (a head covering worn in public by Muslimwomen) is considered be many critics as a form of suppression against NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 3. TRIGGERS CONFLICTS ANDFIGHTS  WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHTIN THE NAME OF RELIGION,AND THIS PHENOMENONCONTINUE S UP TO THEPRESENT NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 4. AS AN ECONOMIC TOOL FOREXPLOITING THE MASSES ACCORDING TO KARL MARX, IT MAINTAINS SOCIAL INEQUALITY BYPROPAGATING A WORLDVIEW THAT JUSTIFIES OPPRESSION. He believed that religion can be eff ectively used by the ruling class to maintain a social order that is more favorable to them. NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 5. IMPEDES SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EXAMPLE, IT HAS OFTEN S AID th at the Catholic Church usedto teach that the world is fl at and warned people against going too far away places if they do not wish to fa ll off the edge of the earth. NEGATIVE EFFCTS OF RELIGION 6. OBSTRUCTS THE USE OF REASON MANY QUESTION THE SUITABLY OFR ELIGIOUS DOCTRINES TO THE NEEDS OFTHE PRESENT AND THE FUTUREGENERATIONS. In order to put this dogma intoprac tice, religion should, th erefore,ev olve and learn to a dapt to theever changing world