In the history, religion is always not a thing that can be easily ignored. On the contrary, it is something on which we individuals as well as the governments put much attention. But, naturally, different countries surely have different situations on religion. And so, to be specific, some comparisons about the religion between America and China will be showed in the rest of this passage.
To start with, there is an obvious similarity in religion between these two countries. That is, there are quite many religions that exist in them. Different people have different believes, so, in such two countries with large populations, the existence of various religions is normal, and, more and more associations are established by the large numbers of believers. As a result, the law also protects the rights of the believers and makes that legal that all of the civilians have the right to choose whether to be a believer or not, in both these two countries. In addition, the governments will not interfere in their normal religious activities and give them whole freedom to develop themselves as long as they don’t do harm to the society.
Besides, as many associations have been established, beside the contribution to the believers' normal religious activities, these associations also make some big contribution to the society, such as the establishments of schools and charity organizations and the advocation of doing good for the society, which have been making much contributions to the developments and harmony of the societies.
When it comes to the differences of the religion between America and China, there are quite a lot to list.
Firstly, just as what has been mentioned before, many religions exist in the both US and China. However, when specific comparison is just made between the two countries, people in China who are believers of religions are far less than in US. As is known to all, China is a country with a large population of more than 1,300,000,000 , but the number of people who have a strong belief in religions is just a little more than 100,000,000,and that is only about 7.7%. However , US only has a population of no more than 330,000,000,while the number of believers in US is about 207,900,000,and that is about 63% according to a research in 2012. One is about 63% and the other is only about 7.7%.The difference is obvious.
Secondly, in the social life, in United States, religious activities play a important role in civilians’ daily life, and people’s belief in the religion is extremely strong. However, in China, though many people have a belief in religion, the belief is always not as strong as people in US.
Thirdly, in the aspect of politics, in US, religion is firmly related to the politics. A strong belief in a religion may help a candidate get much support from voters as they can find the same belief, and the religion has a trend of politicalizing, which will never happen in China’s political life. In China, the chief party is the Community Party, and it is a party that follows Marxism; so every official in the party should not be a person who has a belief in any religion, and that means they all are atheist. Though the law protects the normal religious activities, it doesn’t mean it supports religion’s development. The law only takes the neutral stand and the politics is totally separated from the religion.
In conclusion, in both United States and China, religion is something that plays a very important part in people’s life, and something that will still exist for a long time. Its development has been tied with our life. However, the atmosphere of religion in US is much stronger than in China, and the influences on Chinese are fewer than that on Americans.下载本文