On Reason and Belief by Jenn Zhu

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On Reason and Belief
Jenn Zhu
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fourthly, they empower the humans of its mass activities and
help to put the society in order. Look through the Bible, or the
Koran, or Buddhism scripts, or Confucianism classics, the
principles of their commandments, tenets, or preaching and
teachings are very similar, of course, the legends of the
creators or the Gods could be different, and the way of
practice are also not the same. It is not surprising, because
humans are all made of the same materials, they are basically
the brothers and sisters on earth and they share the same
universe which created all the things and lives according to
the same laws. Different geographical environment shaped
slightly different figures and tinted them with different color,
however, their biological composition is basically the same
which rendered their sense to the universe the same, then
leads to the mechanism of thinking almost the same, after
excluding the effect of the physical environment and life
experience on the manner of their thinking. Then why there
are always the conflicts with the confrontation of cultures. The
ancient conflicts originated from the needs of material wealth,
while the modern conflicts tended to generate from the want
of pride and greed. As more advanced high-tech weapons and
devices were born, the humans started to shift their inner
spiritual power to those exterior powerful arms, and shift
their belief on mass strength agitated by common will to
strength of individuals equipped with devices and weapons.
That led to the doubt on religions and neglect of legacy of
traditional culture, which means the belief have lost its
magnet. People become very practical, which is
understandable in a realistic world. However, people forget
that the realistic world which is mostly represented by the
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