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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

— Hu Shih

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

— Hu Shih

In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

— Zhang Zhidong

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

— Hu Shih

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

— Lyman Abbott

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

— Martin Scorsese

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

— Paul Bloom

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

— Rodney Stark

✗Opposing Perspectives

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

— Hu Shih

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

— Hu Shih

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

— David Henry Hwang