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What are the benefits of religion<\/a> in society? How does religion help make us better as individuals and communities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that we must understand religion primarily as a social driver that brings people into a community around a belief. Ultimately, this helps us find our moral foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more to understand the benefits of religion, according to Jonathan Haidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How Religion Makes Us Better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Haidt outlines three ways religion benefits society: community, altruism, and moral behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefit of Religion #1: Community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Community is important in finding our moral foundations<\/a> and tribes. One of the strongest communities\u2014that\u2019s sometimes dismissed as an unthinking cult by many on the left\u2014is a religious community. Religion doesn\u2019t exist only in churches or mosques\u2014it\u2019s all around us and doesn\u2019t always have a traditional \u201cGod\u201d at its head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religion doesn\u2019t always have that much to do with explaining the universe, as many people think. Rather, it provides the social fabric that binds people together. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A college football game is analogous to the community that\u2019s built around religion. Students and alumni dress up and participate in rituals that have been around for decades if not a century. From the outside, it looks costly and purposeless if not dangerous. But thinking about it from a sociological perspective, it brings people into a hive where they\u2019re worshiping something greater than themselves. It changes people\u2019s experience with a school, which in turn leads to more donations and a better experience for everyone in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people don\u2019t understand religion (or appreciate the benefits of religion) because they focus on the spiritual and supernatural beliefs<\/a> that come along with it. They have difficulty describing it or understanding it as a primarily social driver that brings people into a community around a belief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefit of Religion #2: Altruism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The New Atheists<\/a> say religion is the root of a lot of evil in the world. A lot of religious believers say that atheists are immoral. Surveys show that religious people give more money to charity, but are no more likely to actually help strangers when presented the chance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What religion does<\/em> do, and what we should expect from the hive mentality<\/a>, is that it makes people more generous within their own communities. They\u2019ll volunteer or give a lot of their income through their religious organizations. A second benefit of religion is altruism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is whether religions create bonds that allow people to turn their back on, or even prey on, people who aren\u2019t in their group. Studies from Putnam and David Campbell show that actually, religious people are more likely to give money to <\/strong>any<\/em><\/strong> sort of charity and are more generous with their time.<\/strong> Referring back to the ideas of belief, belonging, and doing, <\/em>they are more likely to \u201cdo\u201d because of their belief and their sense of belonging<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Putnam and Campbell\u2019s study, they asked various questions about religious beliefs, like \u201cdo you believe in hell?\u201d Or \u201chow often do you pray?\u201d How respondents answered these questions didn\u2019t change how much or little they cared for others. In other words, being more committed to religious beliefs <\/em>does not change how generous religious people are. The only association that they found between religious people and being more community-oriented was how comfortable religious believers felt in their religious communities. The group activities that people who are religious\u2014no matter their religion\u2014engage in, and the friendships that religion helps to foster, promote selfless behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefit of Religion #3: Moral Behavior<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Religion thus goes hand in hand with groupishness<\/a>. And of course, certain kinds of extreme groupishness, like fascism, are morally wrong. However, much of what secular people blame religion for is not the fault of belief. For example, religion does not <\/em>lead directly to suicide bombing. Rather, it is an occupying force destroying <\/em>sacred bonds or principles that lead to these bombings. People with intense loyalty to principles they see destroyed agree to give up their lives for what they consider to be the good of the hive. Agreeing to give up one\u2019s life will only happen when the individual has been subsumed by the hive. Religion doesn\u2019t have to be the leading ideology\u2014think of the Marxist-Leninist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka\u2014but it often is, because religion can create the kind of sticky bonds and total attachment to the hive that are necessary for this sort of violent action. In this way, religion can become a sort of accessory to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the whole, though, religions provide frameworks for moral behavior. People who are atheists rely a bit more on reason than emotion because they don\u2019t have these strong frameworks. Relying on our own reason can sound appealing, but we have evolved to work best in shared moral matrices. When we follow our own reason rather than shared morals, it can be harder to maintain the norms of society<\/a>, and everyone<\/em>\u2019s happiness is likely to decrease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The benefit of religion in society<\/a> is easier to understand when we see how it undergirds our moral foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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