Compared to Europe, why China has not developed a universal religious belief?

In Chinese culture, the height of thought has never reached the pursuit of God, nor has it ever been a true religion of its own. Not only do we have no faith in God, but we don't even have any faith at all, and we don't even have the ability to believe. Isn't there Buddhism and Taoism in China?

So, let's take a look at Buddhism vs. Taoism.

Excessive religious belief will be depressed and ignorant, in fact, many people in China believe in Taoism, and the worship of the Jade Emperor in the village belongs to the Taoist system.

Because most people now have received Marxist materialist education since childhood...

Before this education, most people in China were religious, so there were so many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in all dynasties.

Chinese only believe in one thing that has not changed since ancient times, that is, our religious beliefs are ancestral beliefs.

Yes. Most Chinese only believe in money.

It has to do with our ruling party.

It has to do with our cultural background. There is no need to dwell too much on this matter.

In the early days of Chinese history, there was no development of abstract thinking originating from pinyin characters, and there was no abstract concept of God that is God that is invisible and omnipotent. Thus there is no transcendent theology in the Chinese mythological system. Thus the legislators of Chinese society belong to the sage or the Ming monarch.

Religion has always been in a relatively primitive state, and it is difficult for polytheistic religious beliefs to produce the authority of gods that are accepted and recognized by the whole society, so it is impossible to form religious theocracy.

Buddhism entered China in the period of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Confucianism has become the exclusive study of ancient China, and has become the mainstream ideology of the Central Plains Dynasty for more than 2,000 years. It was only in the past that ethnic minority areas such as Tubo and Nanzhao established a theocratic state. But the ** dynasty has always been based on Confucianism as the official ideology.

The reason why China has never formed a religious theocracy is because of the precocious characteristics of Chinese civilization, there is no monotheistic worship in the local area, and when foreign religions invade, social development has reached a high level, and there is an internal culture to resist the challenge of foreign religions.

The reason is simple, in the history of our country, our ruling class has treated religious beliefs as a mere statistic. Domination serves their tools, not religion above them. So, that's the main reason why we didn't let them have the domination of religious beliefs.

When religion affects the rule of our country, you will find that it will be carried out to a certain extent. Annihilation actions, such as the Northern Qi Dynasty, such as the Northern Zhou Dynasty's Buddha extermination operation.

Taoist cultivators can't win, how can they have time to pay attention to the rotten things of your worldly chicken feathers and dog thieves.

Buddhism teaches people to do all good and not to do evil, and they have no interest in power at all.

Before the Qin Dynasty, a hundred schools of thought contended, after that? Since Confucius, Confucianism has changed too much.