Introduction Relationship Between Religion Morality and Belife
Relationship between religion morality and belief, a critical analysis. Mr Edison says that religion can have two parts: one is belief, and the other is practice. Mr Edison means by belief only those issues that are known by revelation and cannot be known by reason or by considering the working nature, but we disagree with his statement. We call beliefs those issues whose existence is not impossible on the principle of cause and nature, that is, the working nature unless we could not believe in their existence based on both of them; revelation has only assured us of their existence when they exist or has told us of their existence.
We have used denial at this point because we doubt whether belief in the issues we have included in belief is a part of faith or not. In practice, Mr. Edison has included those issues which are also guided by religion according to reason and nature. Therefore, he calls the first part beliefs and the second part ethics.
Then, he writes that we often see people who think so much about beliefs that they forget entirely about morality, and some are so attracted to morality that they do not believe in beliefs at all. The perfect man should not be deficient in either of these two things. Those who consider the benefit derived from each will wholeheartedly confirm our statement.
Differnce with MR. Edision
Unfortunately, on this point, I have a slight difference with Mr. Edison. The latter part of his article is very accurate, but there is some error in the first part. There is no difference between beliefs and practice, which Mr. Edison calls morality. No matter how much a person thinks about their beliefs, his morality cannot differ. Similarly, no matter how much he is attracted to morality, there cannot be any loss in his beliefs because these two works are related to two separate instruments and two separate persons, the first to our heart or our soul and God, the second to our outward movements and emotions and man.
Edision Writes
Then he writes that although religion is divided into ethics and belief, and both have their unique qualities, ethics has priority over belief in most matters.
Ethics
Because most of the things of ethics are very correct and firm, even if belief does not remain completely, those things (i.e., the problems of ethics) remain.
Ethics But not Believe
A person who has ethics but does not have belief can do much more suitable for man in the world than a person who has belief but does not have ethics, and I say even more that he can do much good for man in both religion and the world.
Brings Peace And Comfort
Ethics gives greater perfection to the nature of man because it brings peace and comfort to the heart, the heart’s emotions remain in moderation, and each person’s happiness is enhanced.
Advantage
A significant advantage in ethics is that belief, if it is correct, all the civilized nations of the world agree on the major principles of ethics, no matter how different they are in their beliefs.
Moral
Bad morals are worse than disbelief, or to put it this way, most people have accepted that a well-behaved, ignorant savage who has not even heard of the words of God can be saved, but a person who believes in lousy conduct cannot be saved.
Virtua of Belief
The virtue of belief lies in its effect on morals. If we consider the virtues of faith, that is, believing in the religion given by God, we will know the truth of what we have just stated. The virtues of religion lie in the things that I have just said.
Understanding morality and raising morality to a higher level.
Conveying new and powerful motives for practising good morality.
Good thoughts
To form good thoughts about God and treat one’s fellow beings well so that love for one another increases, and the man understands his actual state, whether in terms of the goodness of his nature or its evil.
show the evils of evil.
To make good morals the general means of salvation.
Brief Statement
This is a brief statement of the virtues of religion, but those who engage in such discussions can quickly develop these ideas and draw valuable conclusions from them. However, the apparent result is that no one can achieve perfection in morality unless the Christian religion supports morality. This is Mr. Edison’s statement. But I say that no belief or religion can be true, which does not result in the excellence of morality. Therefore, morality does not need any support from any religion, but understanding the truth of religion or belief needs the support of morality.
Edison Principles
Mr. Edison establishes two more principles that are relevant to this discussion.
(1) He says that we should not consider anything that does not strengthen and develop morality as the basis of belief.
(2) No belief can be based on a correct foundation that corrupts or degrades morality.
Two Principle
These two principles of Mr. Edison are so excellent that no person in the world whose heart has not been blinded by God can deny them. After this, Mr. Edison adds another problem to these principles. He says that in all doubtful cases, we should carefully consider what dire consequences can arise from it, for example, causing pain to people in the hope of strengthening our faith and obtaining imaginary rewards, creating sorrow and hatred, anger and enmity in the hearts of people, and forcing them to accept something they do not believe in. In such feelings, we do not stop there; in addition to all these things, we deprive them of worldly benefits and happiness. We hurt their bodies, spoil their wealth, raze their reputations to the ground, ruin their families, make their lives bitter, and finally kill them.
For Example
when such bad results are obtained from an issue, I do not doubt that the problem is suspicious, just as there is no doubt that two and two make four in arithmetic. So, I cannot base such an issue on or practice it. In such matters, we harm our fellow human beings, and the problem with which we do this is undoubtedly suspicious and objectionable. Our morals are wholly corrupted by it.
Allusion by Mr Edison
This article is probably an allusion by Mr Edison to the time of the Christian religion when the fire of hostility was blazing between the Roman Catholic and Protestant sects, and men, women and children were burned in the fire for not accepting the religion and very unfortunate bloodshed which was entirely against Christianity was taking place.
Power of Human Thoughts: Exploring Reason, Faith, and Knowledge
People Thinking
People think that in the Muslim religion, there is also such a bloodthirsty, peaceful and morally opposed issue of Jihad. If that issue is such as some or most of the people who have not reached the truth or are selfish, have understood or as often practised by cruel and cunning Muslim rulers, then who can doubt it’s against morality, but our belief is not this.
Instead, the reality of Jihad, which is, in fact, according to the religion of Islam, is not against morality. It does not involve any coercion or the forcible liberation of someone’s religion or the shedding of someone’s blood for religion. It is based only on national law, that is, on the law by which different nations should behave among themselves, and it is practised today among the most civilized countries. We have mentioned this issue in many of our writings, and we hope that someday we will also publish an article on this subject in this paper.
Final Thoughts
Mr. Edison ends his article Relationship between religion morality and belief, with a perfect and touching statement by a writer: “Religion is enough for us to create hatred among ourselves, but not enough to create love among ourselves.” I admit that the behaviour of religions in this era is like this, and the behaviour of Muslims is the worst, but the real problem of true faith, that is, Islam, is to know God as one and to consider man as our brother, so whoever is against this problem is in error.