Positive and

Negative Effect of
Religion
Alforja, Christine Joy

Barreda, Cyra

Lerona, Hazel

Ortiz, Mei
POSITIVE AND
NEGATIVE EFFECT OF
RELIGION
 POSITIVE EFFECTS
• Religion gives people something to believe in, provides a sense of
structure and typically offers a group of people to connect with over
similar beliefs. These facets can have a large positive impact on
mental health—research suggests that religiosity reduces suicide
rates, alcoholism and drug use.

• Promotes ethics in political life.

• there is no doubt that religion has an important role in society. In

fact, it has become so closely interwined with other institutions such
as political and economic system that religious beliefs sometimes
became the basis of the political legitimacy.
• Some people attest that their religious beliefs are the source of the
courage they need to keep going in life (“The Lord is my strength”).

• Most people want to believe that there is more to reality than just the
physical, scientific universe, and religion teaches us that indeed, there
is.

• The religious view that “everything happens for a reason” can be

comforting during difficult times.

• The religious view that “God has a plan for you” makes life seem less
chaotic.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS
• Religion has often been named as the cilprit behind divisiviness 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.

• Religion is filling people with fear. Religion is one of the main reasons
why people are afraid of living.

• Religion is turning people against themselves.

• Religion is turning people against each other.

• Religion is keeping people in ignorance.

• Many religions teach that some people will go to hell after they
die. That’s a pretty dark thing to believe. It’s pretty harsh to say
that someone deserves to suffer for all eternity.

• Some religious groups go even further and claim that you have
be in their religion to earn salvation, which would imply that
anyone outside their religion would automatically go to hell.
That is an appalling thing to believe.

• Also, some religious people worry that they themselves might

go to hell, which is a source of unnecessary anxiety in their
lives (since, after all, hell is probably not real).

• Some religions, especially the Catholic Church, have a long

history of trying to suppress human sexuality, even when it’s
completely normal and healthy sexuality. And when it gets
suppressed, people don’t learn how use it.
“I BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY
TRUE RELIGION CONSIST OF
HAVING A GOOD HEART.”

—Dalai Lama
THANK YOU!!!