中英教材Chapter3分析.pptVIP

Three actual functions of religion: Religion as an embodiment of priest-craft,with its dogmas, its apostolic succession, its appeal to miracles, its patent cures for sins and selling of pardons, its salvation “made easy” and its good solid heaven and hell. There is religion as a sanction for moral conduct: Chinese:Humanist ethics is a man-centered,not a God- centered ethics. Christian:Men should, or could, behave toward one another as decent beings with thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party. Reasons for the differences between a religious culture like