He had the greatest esteem for Rites, hut memorial ceremony and sacrificial rites are activities of serving ghosts, so Confucian's atheism thoughts were in a dilemma in science of Rites.
He had the greatest esteem for Rites, hut memorial ceremony and sacrificial rites are activities of serving ghosts, so Confucian's atheism thoughts were in a dilemma in science of Rites.
孔子推崇周礼，而丧祭之礼侍奉的对象即鬼神，所以孔子不能明言否定鬼神，其无神论观念在礼学中处于两难境遇。