Although many people in later generations will think that the Roman Empire was great and prosperous, in fact it is not wrong.
However, only a small number of "citizens" can share this wealth.
What kind of people did the first Christians come from?
The poorest man in Rome.
Freedmen who lived in the cities, bankrupt people from all walks of life, or newly freed slaves. Slaves from various large estates, small farmers in the fields who were increasingly trapped in debt bondage.
For all of them there is absolutely no common path to liberation. For all of them paradise is gone; the paradise of bankrupt free men in which their forefathers were free citizens.
The city-state of the past was both a city and a country; the paradise of captive-war slaves was the free era before they were captured and became slaves; the paradise of small farmers was the eradicated clan system and public ownership of land.
Therefore, under the circumstances at that time, the only way out was in the field of religion.
The theologian opened a gap leading to dreams in the depressing world.
Another world opened. The continued existence of the soul after death gradually became a recognized creed in Rome all over the world. The belief that the soul after death will receive some kind of reward or punishment for its actions during life is also becoming more and more popular among everyone.
Accepted. But the reward is quite unreliable; the ancient world had a strong spontaneous materialism, which regarded life on earth as much more precious than life in the underworld; the Greeks regarded eternal life after death as a kind of misfortune.
Compared with the original "just world", the "settlement after death" is simply overwhelmingly powerful. In the spiritual field, it has the epoch-making significance of a nuclear weapon - in layman's terms, it is a spiritual atomic bomb.
"Death" is no longer simple, nor is it the end. Therefore, human beings can finally overcome a little bit of the fear of death and gain a little bit of fear.
This mechanism, which cannot be proven or falsified by humans, has become a "fair" patch.
In the imaginary world, a reliable third-party monitor appears.
As a result, people in the world - those who have nothing, find someone they can love, and they also gain the love of others.
God guarantees this love.
The doctrine of "love your neighbor" and the comment "He who has mercy on his neighbor" unite people who have nothing.
For the people of the Empire who worship all gods, believing in a sect of one god is equivalent to "atheism". This is a sin.
The empire's malice did not destroy the love of the people at the bottom for each other.
…
--like?
--like?
Yuki sincerely doubted whether he had read the wrong book.
What is "love"? Does he really know the word?
Is it possible that the Six Dragons Sect relies on "love" to unite themselves?
Those Six Dragon Sect members... really love each other... love each other...
Yuki suddenly thought of Borshu again. Borshu was in pain because he knew that the love from Green Forest was sincere. The power of technology also implanted a deep-rooted love for his compatriots in Green Forest in his consciousness.
In a sense, the green forest is also united by "love".
But "love" shouldn't be...
--calm down………..
Yuki warned himself like this
"Love is not an answer" - this is what Xiangshan once said to him repeatedly. After Borshu's death, Xiangshan once specially educated Youki.
"People cannot lack love, but love cannot be what saves the world." This is what Xiangshan said to Yuki when he placed a fragment of Bor's outer armor next to the pillow of the strange girl in Dr. Hu's clinic.
Love is part of the means, but it cannot be the whole means.
Love should be included in the purpose, but it cannot be the entire purpose.
like……
"Love is not the answer, but the Six Dragons Sect chose love as its foundation, so does it exhibit the characteristics of a 'religion'?"
Yuki felt that his guess was quite absurd.
He was very suspicious. From what he saw along the way, the Six Dragon Sects were all so... vicious?
No, maybe it’s because something like “love” is exclusive.
Yuki flipped to the next chapter. On the west side of Eurasia, when that religion was sprouting and entangled with the empire, there was also a sect born on the east side of Eurasia. Although in the next thousand years, these two
The supporting sects will develop into completely different things. However, in the early stages of germination, they showed amazing similarities. This sect spread in Bashu, with "life and death" as its core and "fear of death"
And "beautiful vision" is a common topic* to reconcile the conflicts of different groups under its rule. In its organizational form and daily activities, it shows characteristics very similar to Western sects. In the era of the Republic, Easterners also once
Gave high praise to this early sect.
This author obviously prefers to look for "commonalities" between different civilizations, and then explore the reasons for the birth of "individuality" based on the "commonalities".
The author of this book believes that perhaps this organizational form is the best answer that people of that era could give, and perhaps the most suitable.
The world religion of the South Asian subcontinent sprouted earlier. Six to seven hundred years before that, the first enlightened people had already explained the idea of "all living beings are equal" in view of the inherently unequal world.
Yuki quickly reviewed it. He actually didn't care about the specific content of the religion. He just wanted to find a template. A template that could help him understand the Six Dragons Cult.
However, he soon fell into confusion again.
Just turning over a chapter, these early sects changed their appearance one after another.
The Eastern sect completed its surrender with almost no struggle, and the process was smooth. After it entered the upper class society, its past doctrines and organizational structures were quickly abandoned, and were no longer discussed by anyone, and were even dubbed "
"Demon" and "ghost" are derogatory terms. "Talking about Xuan" seems to be the most doctrinal thing.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! And the sect that defined the origin of the old era became part of the empire. The question that theologians were most concerned about was once "who is the chronologist?"
The definition of the relationship between "The Leader of the Origin" and "God". They are willing to spend hundreds of years discussing this issue, and they are willing to be divided over it.
Obviously, the prophet made an annotation for "neighbor" so that people can try to love people far away, but later people are trying to close the door opened by the prophet and re-limit the scope of the definition...
Later, when they treated people who were different from themselves, they did not see "compassion".
——Can’t understand.
Yuki thought so.
He began to feel that he might not be able to find the template of the Six Dragon Sect from his past research.
Could it be that the Church of Six Dragons was born out of a desire to save the world? How is this possible? It is simply too absurd.
How many years would it take for a religion in the distant past to reverse its stance?
And how long has the Six Dragons Sect existed?
Yuki shook his head.
All kinds of thoughts came one after another. Faced with these thousands of thoughts, the young man couldn't figure it out for a moment. His brain didn't know which part should be processed first.
Feeling so "overwhelmed", Yuki impatiently turned to the end, wanting to see what kind of summary the author would write.
What is a little unexpected is that the author first admits that he is actually very ignorant in this field. Although religion is something that was born only after the birth of human beings, it is also very complicated. As human beings develop to this day, they are increasingly unable to recognize their own
Look.
"Religion" is a very complex topic.
“… When the African warlord countries were still hunting black slaves, there were Jesuit monks in Africa in the form of guerrilla warfare to rescue slaves… But it must also be noted that these slaves will be sold to countries that believe in God…
...At the same time, we also need to note that the Jesuits are...an extremely conservative force...but from their behavior...I am therefore willing to believe the declaration that 'if Jesus lived*, he would be a guerrilla'...
…”
"...The sect that claims to be 'justified by faith' and advocates that 'anyone has the right to interpret scriptures' may be more progressive from a modern perspective... But within the sphere of influence of the Kelvin sect, a Catholic
How to interpret incidents such as the priest standing together with the rebellious peasants from a class historical perspective is a topic worthy of our discussion..."
"...Any religion is a social entity composed of religious believers, religious organizations and religious ideas. It is a branch of the spiritual system of human society...It not only reflects the suffering caused by nature and human society, but also places its trust in
Religious people’s protests and lamentations about real-life suffering as well as their hopes and pursuits for ideal life. In different historical periods, religion has played different roles in promoting or hindering social progress..."
"Every religion has more or less such components: scholars who discuss metaphysical ideas in magnificent religious places. Ascetic hermits who practice in the wilderness and deep in the mountains, who are rooted in the general public and have deep connections with superstitious behaviors.
The origins of folk beliefs, the clergy who operate religious sites... Looking at religion in a one-sided and general way cannot deepen our understanding of ourselves as humans..."
Yuki hit his head against the inner wall of the submarine.
Not far away, Yin Zhewei looked at it and found it funny, and asked: "What are you doing?"
"I just feel that even people who lived in the past are so... so... 'unknown' about the religions of the past..." Yuki put his head against the wall and turned around: "The topic of religion is too complicated.
Yeah. It may be a fundamental mistake to think of analyzing the Six Dragons Sect by 'understanding religion'."
Yin Zhewei's eyes lit up: "Oh oh oh, that's it... If you have any ideas, you can bring them out, and we can all discuss them together. You know, we can be regarded as scientific research knights after all. In this aspect, we can barely be considered.