Which one is more powerfull Religion or Traditions?

Question

More or less how does they affect each other?
& In your case does they face each other and create some sort of a struggle?

Answer 1

Traditions can overpower religion when they become the focal point of a group. They tend to become rigid and shortsighted if not kept in the proper context. When viewed properly they can enhance religion, giving meaning to certain areas or concepts. I usually try to find out the root of a tradition to determine if it has any bearing on my beliefs. If not, I simply discard the tradition as being manmade rather than God inspired.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Are you talking just Christianity? Or are you talking other religions as well? Are you talking about different aspects of a particular religion?

What is it that you want to know exactly?

You already know what the most powerful religion in the world is. Its the same as it has been for 1000 years. Its Christianity, even if they are losing members.

What traditions are you talking about exactly?

I'm Wiccan. There are no real traditions as Wiccans make it up as they go and Wicca is a very new religion. There is no struggle except with people who refuse to accept Wicca, and try to convert, or make fun of, the members. Wicca is not an organized religion.

Answer 3

I think traditions are the most powerful of the two.
For example: my country was traditionally animist and shamanist, christianity was brought in by the invaders. But the majority of the people never took to it completely and still remain pagan in a lot of their toughts and deeds. Actually, I believe this to be true in most of Northern Europe, maybe even in the whole of Europe.
In my case personally, there is no struggle, because I don't subscribe to any organised religion. But I totally believe in the power of tradition and ritual.

Answer 4

Religion is of divine revelation but traditions are man-made. Religion should have higher authority over traditions. No doubt religion can be traditionally inherited, learned followers must be able to understand the difference between the two.

Of course there's struggle, always. The informed and the ignorant are never the same and always see things differently.

Answer 5

One might say Religion is part of Tradition.

Tradition encompasses many things. One of them is how each culture traditionally deals with spirituality.

In Western Civilization there is an additional conflict. During the Age of Reason, a set of ideas came forth, Liberty, Equality, Science, Democracy. These ideas have become a traditional part of our society, yet they are at odds, at times with our traditional religion, christianity.

It makes for some wild debate, as well as very real tension with regards to the law.

Answer 6

There is no power in Religion as well as in traditions. Religion is groups of people to gather together in relation to the study of the teachings of God, the existence of God, creation of man and so forth and son which is based on the words of God in a book which is the Bible in which case the bible is compose of many books written by prophets of God.The words of God were dictated to the prophets for them to write on a book called Gospel in order to let all the creatures of God to know all about God, because God is spiritual being who can not be seen by man.

Traditions are belief in one community, town or village about something which they think it exist and those are imaginations and hallucinations from the old folks, our forefathers but without basis for belief which means it was not written. In short, it is an old belief for something originated from our forefathers.

The difference is in religion, the basis of b elief is the book called the bible while in tradition there is no basis of belief but it is of what our forefathers thought of that something.

It was written in the bible on the teachings of Jesus that man should not base his belief on traditions because those are false belief. Those are unfounded.God prohibits the belief of tradition.
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Answer 7

Religion is made up of cultural traditions. Each religion has it's own anthropology.

Answer 8

The problem here is tradition is tied to religion. Thats why you see same belief different practise.

Answer 9

They're both dangerous. Religion in terms of organzied ones that is. I'm not opposed to individual religion though. religion is generally categorized as organzied religions, and organized religions and traditions are both slowing down the progress of all humanity.

Answer 10

religion should be more powerful than tradition. however tradition has bigger and greater influence on humans. most ppl often mistook tradition as religion.