Positive Negative Effects

LESSON 3:
POSITIVE & NEGATIVE

EFFECTS OF RELIGION
POSITIVE EFFECTS
• Promotes Social Harmony
• Provides Social Change
• Gives Positive Goal in Life
• Provides Moral Values
• Explain the Unknown
• Give People a Sense of Belonging
POSITIVE EFFECTS OF RELIGION
• There is no doubt that religion has an important role in

society. In fact, it has become so closely intertwined
wih other institutions such as political and economic
systems that religious beliefs sometimes became the
basis of the political legitimacy.
1.RELIGION PROMOTES SOCIAL HARMONY
• Religion believes in supernatural beings and powers. It

practices a set of rituals and ceremonious rites of passage
of intensification. It also regards religious leaders such as
priests, priestesses and shamans in high esteem. These
characteristics help advance social harmony by
assimilating and stabilizing cultures and nations.
2. RELIGION PROVIDES MORAL VALUES
• Perhaps one of the most significant functions of religion is that it

encourages moral values. It provides a systematic model of the
universe, which effect determines organized human behavior. By
providing moral values, one is able to distinguish right from
wrong, good or evil. It also provides a systems of reward and
punishment that administers and standardizes people behavior in
society.
3. RELIGION PROVIDES SOCIAL CHANGE
• Since religion is a source of moral values, religion

provides social change. It can be very effective in lobbying
and campaigning for certain social issues usin its own
moral teachings as the basis of argument. For example, the
church in the us has been active in the campaign for civil
liberties as well as the antislavery movement.
4. RELIGION REDUCES FEAR OF THE
UNKNOWN
• Religion was developed from mans need to have a

sense of origin and destination, to discover where they
came from and where they are bound to go when they
die. Religion provides answers for phenomena and
questions that the science or reason cannot explain.
5.RELIGION GIVES POSITIVE GOAL IN LIFE
• People were inspired by the story of different prophets from their own
religious affilliations, like that moses, siddhara gautama, and muhammad.
The people showed how ordinary people them were given important
missions in life, and how they struggled to carry out their respective
missions.
6. RELIGION GIVES PEOPLE A SENSE OF
BELONGING
• Just as family, ethnicity, or nationality give people a sense of

belonging, so does religion. For some, religion provides people
with personal identify as part of a groups with similar
worldviews, beliefs, values, practices,and lifestyles. It provides
communities with prospects to recognize and offer vital action
and service to provide the needs of the larger community.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS
• Affirms social hierarchy

• Triggers conflicts and fights
• Impedes scientific success and development
• Causes of discrimination
• Serves as an economic tool for controlling the masses
• Obstructs the use of reason
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF RELIGION
• Religion has often been named as the culprit behind

divisiveness and conflicts among people. There is also
beliefs that religion can be dangerous to society when
used to advance the interests of a people at the expense
of other people especially those with different religious
beliefs.
1. RELIGION AFFIRMS SOCIAL HIERARCHY
•Some religions affirm social hierarchy

often favoring men as and result,
perpetuate the notions of class and
gender discrimination and oppression.
2. RELIGION CAUSES DISCRIMINATION
•There are some who say that religion, After

turning people Against themselves, turn people
Against each other. This happens when people do
not tolerate religious Ideologies different from
the one they follow.
3. RELIGIONS TRIGGERS CONFLICT AND
FIGHTS
•Religion also has some aspects

which make it susceptible to be
a source of conflict and war.
4. RELIGION AS AN ECONOMIC TOOL FOR
EXPLOITING THE MASSES
• According to the German philosopher Karl Marx,

“ religion is the opium of the masses.” This is in
relation to his critical Approach to religion in
which he proposed that the bourgeoisie keep the
proletariat in control through religion.
5. RELIGION IMPEDES SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS
AND DEVELOPMENT
• Throughout history, religion has proven to impede

scientific development. for example, It has often been
said that the Catholic church used to teach that the world
is flat and warned people against going to faraway places
if they do not wish to fall off the edge of the earth
6. RELIGION OBSTRUCTS THE USE OF
REASON
• Many questions the suitability of religious

doctrine to the needs of the present and the
future generations. In order to put this dogma to
practice, religion should, therefore, envolve and
learn to adapt to the ever changing world.
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LESSON 3:

POSITIVE & NEGATIVE

• There is no doubt that religion has an important role in

• Religion believes in supernatural beings and powers. It

• Perhaps one of the most significant functions of religion is that it

• Since religion is a source of moral values, religion

• Religion was developed from mans need to have a

• Just as family, ethnicity, or nationality give people a sense of

• Affirms social hierarchy

• Religion has often been named as the culprit behind

•Some religions affirm social hierarchy

•There are some who say that religion, After

•Religion also has some aspects

• According to the German philosopher Karl Marx,

• Throughout history, religion has proven to impede

• Many questions the suitability of religious

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