The Role of Religion

Though the desire in man for perfection springs from religion and the religion is as Mathew Arnold calls it, "the voice of the deepest human experience".

                                                       

Culture is growing and becoming a general expansion towards perfection so the motive and sanction of religion also obligation to man to promote the kingdom of God, yet the religion is not sufficient for a man to achieve the perfection. Because when we peep into the religious organizations of England, we find that they are based on the impulse of man towards moral development and self-conquest and in this respect their ideal of perfection remains narrow and inadequate which is not appropriate for the harmonious perfection. Because the idea of perfection is an inward condition of the mind and spirit which is enriched by the culture (study of perfection) and culture eschews all kind of narrowness and hatred.

Culture, as Mathew Arnold says, believes in making reason and will of God prevail, believes in perfection, its purpose is to pursue the beauty (sweetness) and religion (light) together, but religion works only for light, it does not avail the sweetness of life. So, culture goes beyond religion in order to pursue the perfection and mere religion fails to lead us to the harmonious perfection.