If it was just born out of the city-state system, there is nothing much to say, but the key point is that the king's power is divinely authorized, which creates something weird and strange.
Temple!
Under the divine right of kings, the power of the temple was infinitely magnified, and the temple was actually the biggest controller of each province.
As a result, the Seleucid Kingdom actually did not have much control over the local area.
In particular, the system of gods believed in by Parthia and Bactria and the system of gods believed by the Seleucid Kingdom are not the same system!
The Seleucids believed in the Nordic god system, which was the Germanic system of the god-king Odin, while Parthia and Bactria believed in the classical Greek mythology system and Sumerian mythology!
"No wonder!" Jin Yao finally understood why An An was a born rebel.
Even if they have different beliefs, how can they be mixed together?
"What the hell is this?" The second-in-command figure who arrived in Daxia was dumbfounded when he looked at the local customs and customs.
He thought that there would be gaps in civilization, between advanced and backward, but he did not expect that many years after slavery was abolished in China, there were still slaves here, and even human trafficking was encouraged!
Forget it, it is normal to see a doctor when you are sick, so in China, the social status of doctors is not low.
But here...
Gongsun Chong saw a scene that subverted his understanding.
He was obviously a patient, and when he went to see a doctor and received treatment, the first thing he did was not thank the doctor, but thank the gods for his treatment. Then he turned against his doctor, ranging from spitting on him to punching and kicking him at worst.
"Doctoring here seems to be a high-risk profession!" Gongsun Chong and others looked at each other.
Chinese etiquette requires them to repay the benefactor, and they cannot understand why some patients would punch or kick the doctor who cured them.
"What the distinguished guests from afar don't know is that they are all dirty people!" The guide respectfully introduced the local customs and customs to Gongsun Long and others.
Only then did Gongsun Long and others understand why.
In the Seleucid Kingdom, people believed that their illnesses were punishments sent by the gods and tests from the gods. Thunder, rain, and dew were all gifts from the gods.
But doctors are different. These people are born to deal with diseases, which is the dirtiest profession and blasphemy. Being doctors is a punishment from the gods, so that they can only live with diseases for the rest of their lives.
Gongsun Chong and others were all dumbfounded and could not understand this way of thinking at all.
In the Central Plains of China, you can try to use a doctor. Those people who have been treated can let you know what social death is, the kind that even the government will not help you.
"It is rare to have such a superstitious belief in ghosts and gods!" Gongsun Chong knew very well that the root of all this came from this so-called temple.
Although the Chinese also believe in gods, they only seek spiritual sustenance when they are desperate. If a god cannot save themselves, then this god is not worthy of belief.
In other words, China’s belief in gods comes from being useful to themselves!
But here, the belief in gods has reached a level that transcends the law and is regarded as a standard!
"God is omnipotent!" Under the guidance of the guide, Gongsun Chong and his party started their journey to the far west.
Because they knew that they were distinguished guests from the Qin Dynasty, temples and provinces from all over the country also gave them absolute courtesy. After all, their gods had been beaten by gods from the east before!
But what they got in exchange was not their hatred!
When they first heard that Fang Cheng had come to these places and killed the masters in their temples, Gongsun Chong and others were ready to fight. After all, they knew that this group of people's belief in gods had reached a perverted level.
situation.
Who would have thought that instead of encountering any hostility, after hearing that they were distinguished guests from the East, they lowered their status even more.
After thinking about it, Gongsun Chong understood the key. Their gods were beaten by other gods, which proved that other gods were more powerful and omnipotent.
In order to prevent their own god system from being destroyed, they chose to place those guys in Fangcheng in a higher position than their gods, as the existence of superior gods.
This is exactly the case, so after hearing that they were the people of the gods in Fangcheng, they were naturally lowered in terms of status.
The Lord of Daxia and the Lord of Anxi personally received Gongsun Chong and his party, and then sent personal guards to escort the party to the Seleucid capital.
"Those are a group of evil gods. Our gods can still win or lose when fighting against your gods. Although the temple has been destroyed, at least there are still ruins. But their gods are different. It doesn't matter if they can't defeat them. Even the islands of the gods
They were all beaten and sunk, this is nothing but an evil god!"
The rulers of Daxia and Anxi were constantly following Gongsun Chong and others in speaking ill of Seleucus.
Gongsun Chong also fell silent, are you... taking fifty steps to laugh at a hundred steps? As long as the other party is worse than yourself, you have won?
And Gongsun Chong knew very well that the so-called gods mentioned by this group of people were actually just some masters and masters of heaven and earth who were cultivated by humans, and were not gods!
"Do you think gods are omnipotent?" Gongsun Chong still found it a bit difficult to understand.
"The gods are naturally omnipotent!" Regarding this, both An'an and Daxia said with unswerving enthusiasm.
"Then let me ask you a question!" Gongsun Chong thought for a while. As a famous master, he is still the best at evasion.
"Excuse me, distinguished guest!"
"Can the gods create a huge stone that it cannot lift?" Gongsun Chong asked as he looked at the crowd.
"Of course, the gods are omnipotent!" the people below said decisively.
Gongsun Chong smiled slightly, said nothing more, got on the Mo family's Suzaku, and flew towards the Seleucid capital with everyone's shocked eyes.
"Miracles, miracles again!" However, the ignorant people regarded Suzaku as a miracle and decisively knelt on the ground to worship.
Only the priests of those temples were shocked. They knew better that the so-called divine power was just a fabrication they used to control the people.
Now these distinguished guests from the East seem to want to expose their lie.
Gongsun Chong's words are an extremely simple sophistry.
Are gods omnipotent?
So could a god create a boulder that he couldn't lift?
If he can, then he cannot lift this huge stone, so he is not omnipotent!
If it can't, then it's even simpler. If He can't create it, then He's not omnipotent!
Gongsun Chong and his entourage would publicize the entire sophistry wherever they went, causing the entire Seleucid Kingdom to fall into a struggle between theocracy and human rights.
"You have played with Sumerian mythology to death, is this the great god Odin who is coming to harm us again?" Seleucus II naturally also knew the news about Gongsun Chong and his party, and at first he was still laughing at the incompetence of the classical Greek mythology system.
But it wasn't until Gongsun Chong and his party were about to arrive in their capital that they discovered that they couldn't refute that sophistry!