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Traditions are beliefs and principles that people in a particular society or community have transferred from generation to generation and continually believe in them.

Religion is based on humans having faith and worshipping or reverencing a supreme being called God, which is agreed to be bigger than them in all aspect.

I was having a chat with an elderly Yoruba man and I asked a question "What's the difference between Tradition and Religion" I think I really needed to ask that question so as to satisfy my long time curiosity and I got the answer the answer I wanted. He said "We met Tradition but Religion came to us. Religion in Yoruba means **ẹsin** while tradition is called **asa**".

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Let me give a breakdown of what differentiates culture and tradition from religion. 
This two looks really close, in most cases they are not easily differentiated. The difference between your faith and your belief is one way to differentiate them.

Most cultural values and traditional ethics are based on beliefs that have been passed on from generation to generation. These beliefs are told orally and in few cases in writings. On the other hand, Religion is based on faith. Religion is never built on beliefs, it is considered a process of revelation through scriptures.

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Tradition is known to evolve from one person and so regarded as an evolutional belief while religion is agreed to be a process of revelation from God. 
Culture and tradition do more of entertainment and fun to worship. Traditions do more of festivals, dance nights, moonlight tales, harvests and more compared to religion which is based on worshipping a higher authority.

Religion sees every wrong doing as **SIN** and does not advocate measures that harm their followers because they go contrary to their laws either physically or psychologically. The only feeling a religious person feels after indulging in sin is guilt, and religion has created a way of coming back to the track.
Tradition sees wrong doings as **TABOO** which when defaulted is attached with stiff punishments. When a taboo is committed, the offended is molested and put to shame if they escape being sentenced to death.

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Cultures and traditions vary with the passage of time, they are prone to changes as time passes while it is impossible to rewrite the laid down basic and fundamental structure of religion because they are written and are reverenced as holy.

## Conclusion
Either Tradition or Religion, Non should be regarded as dark or barbaric, because of Our inability to see their Distinctive values or characteristics between them. 
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