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t temple to pray for a high score on graduate entrance exam or to find an ideal job. Superstitions also brought many troubles to the adults. Many sick people didn’t go to hospital, because they thought that the Buddha could bless and protect them. As long as they could worship the Buddha every day, their sickness would be gone. In this condition, they suffered from a serious illness, even resulted in death. On January 23, 2001, an outstanding girl, Chen Guo, was from Central Music University, set fire to herself in the Tian’anmen Square in order to pursue “ascending to heaven completely”. The burning area of the whole body accounted for 80%. Her face changed completely. This made us think of her beauty and talent before. Originally She could become a musician from a music talented girl. There was another story: Recently, a woman was killed in a car accident because she was not willing to walk under a ladder. She thought it was bad luck to walk under the ladder. In a word, superstitions insinuate themselves into the world. III. Religious Ideas From the old times to the present, the religious ideas are in people’s life. Religious ideas vary in different religion. The innovation of any religious ideas is not rootless, it is base on the traditional religious thoughts. Successful religious ideas can be accepted by the general populace, and form the tremendous influence on the development of the human society in some time. Every country has the religious ideas. The different countries and nationalities have different religious ideas. And the nationality, the religion and the culture are related . A. The Views of Christianity about Death and Spirits In Western countries, Christianity is a very important religion. The Christians have many views on death and spirits. (1) The death of the human body doesn’t mean that all the things have vanished. The death is not the end of the life, but is the beginning of another life. (2) We survive in the world as a guest. It is temporary. (3) We should hope for the happy hometown, which is in the heaven and is prepared for us by the God. (4) Human’s soul doesn’t extinguish forever. (5) The people can get the life again after millennium, and the rebirth is the work of the Holy Ghost. It is not the work of humans. (6) The samara reincarnation is extent form of the human life. The Christian think that there is coexistent time of the human and god. The samara reincarnation is an ordinary fact for them. They believe that the human has the soul. There was a judicial procedure after people died. If the person believes the Christ before the death, he or she must depend on Christ to enter the eternal life. The world can end in one day, but the person can live in the new world, which is made by the God, because the life is eternal there. B. The Views of Buddhism and Taoism about Ghost and God In China, the legends of ghosts and gods are made up of the primitive myths, immortal speech of Taoism, Buddhism stories. They belong to the different system originally, but in the long developing process they fused fully, in particular the union of Buddhism and Taoism has a very important significance. The ghost’s world is actually made by Buddhism, such as, 18 hells and reincarnation. These are the elaboration of the Buddhist Scriptures radically, but they are deeply melted in people’s mind. Traditionally Chinese people thought that the dead person could become a ghost. But Buddhism thought the ghost