宗教是统治人们的自然力量和社会力量在人们头脑中虚幻的、颠倒的反映。恩格斯指出:“一切宗教都不过是支配着人们日常生活的外部力量在人们头脑中的幻想的反映,在这种反映中,人间的力量采取了超人间的力量的形式。”在社会主义社会,生产力的发展还无法达到使宗教消亡的程度,还不能消除宗教存在的根源,因而,宗教在一部分人中的影响还会长期存在。 Religion is the illusory and upside-down reflection of people’s natural and social forces in people’s minds. Engels pointed out: “All religions are nothing more than a reflection of the illusion of external forces that govern the daily life of people in people’s minds. In this reflection, human power takes the form of superhuman forces.” In a socialist society, The development of productive forces still can not reach the point where the disappearance of religions can not eliminate the root causes of the existence of religions. Therefore, the influence of religion in some people will persist.