Religion has played an important role in human history. The tenets of advanced religions are supposed to tend towards demystification and open our minds to rationality. According to the German sociologist Max Weber, the rise of modern capitalism has much to do with the Protestant asceticism. Weber is of the opinion that religious doctrines can shape people's ideas and thoughts so as to motivate a whole material civilization. Weber is not the only scholar who has come to this conclusion. Liang Shuming, a recent great modern Chinese scholar, holds the same view that the rational spirit inherent in Confucian ethics would be beneficial in promoting the modernization of China. Following several hundred years of development, capitalism has led to a syndrome of boredom with civilization, with the result that the material world has won over the spiritual one. Meanwhile the self-interested, calculating mind has overwhelmed morality, and this makes people feel lost or even numb towards the meaning of life. The original ascetic ideal of Protestantism and the reason of the Enlightenment have died away. People have always pursued happiness, which is a balance between matter and mind. Happiness, in terms of well-perfected religion, is the agreement of virtue and merit. While people are lost in material pleasures and enslaved in the cage of capitalism, they have to reconsider how the spiritual and moral life might provide a balance against the physical world. Reason has always been part of human nature. Only generous affections and a grateful mind can assuage people's inner life and make them spontaneously conscious of their moral duty. That is why 'Gesinnungsvernunft' is capable of the highest level of religious ethics. In this way, mankind can reshape a culture where matter and mind agree with each other and where true well-being is desirable.