Chapter 2747 Primitive Means
The high priest didn't expect Duran to be so unethical and suddenly wanted to intervene in the city-state and even seize her management rights. Although she has always felt very tired, if she really handed over the city-state completely, she would feel sorry for her father and her responsibility.
Duran smiled and said to Misato Katsuragi and the others: "We will definitely win. The high priest will not be our opponent at all."
"Why?" Jiaji said that Duran was too confident. They were outsiders, and the priest had dedicated so many years to the city-state. How could he definitely lose?
"You are also employees of Seele after all. Look at Seele and then look at the high priest. Can you find any difference?" Duran persuaded.
Jia Chi said: "There are quite a few similarities. They all believe in an absurd belief and use this absurd belief as a driving force to drive their actions. The high priest believes in the savior, so he burns, kills and robs everywhere. Seele believes in human completion, so he wants to kill all humans. But the differences are not obvious."
"I'll tell you what the difference is. Seele didn't leave himself a way out. They are enemies of all mankind. Once the truth is exposed, they will definitely be killed. So they are fully implementing the human completion plan and promoting the extinction of mankind. Seele has no way out. But this high priest has a way out. First of all, she is a self-healing person. With this ability, she will not die even if there is no supply from the city-state. She does not have to be tied to the city-state. A person with a way out must not go all out and will inevitably lose."
After listening to Duran's analysis, Jia Chi felt that it made sense, but there was a problem: "We also have a way out."
Duran smiled: "You have no way out, you only have me." Duran said that Jia Chi and their way out is completely in his hands, and they have no say at all.
Well, it seems that there is no way out for me. The three friends looked at each other in bewilderment.
The next step is to bribe. A steady stream of protein and bread was sent to Behemdorug, and Duran led everyone to give speeches and promote religion.
Religion must first be dressed in strange clothes and stand out. If you wear ordinary clothes, how can you tell whether you are a priest or a gangster? Therefore, you must be able to recognize it at a glance in appearance, which the original high priest did not do.
Secondly, the city-state relies entirely on television to preach, which can be said to be the practice of the greatest weapon of religion is science.
Copernicus and Bruno, the two scientists who were burned to death, were actually students of religious schools, but in the end their heresy was punished. Therefore, religion has been using science to spread knowledge for a long time, because religion wants to use science to prove the existence of God. It can even be said that technology shines after the Industrial Revolution because technology and religion have never been separated. Technology and religion develop synchronously, and finally they can have the power to fight evenly.
Also because technology has never been completely separated from religion, many scientists are also devout believers.
The reason why many people in the West criticized religion later, saying that religion was corrupt and dark, and also said something about the dark Middle Ages. It was entirely because they wanted to seize the right to speak for religion. If religion is beautiful and kind, then everyone should believe in religion, not science. In order to highlight science, religion must be stepped on, so that the power of science can become stronger. Unfortunately, they did not step on it very thoroughly, so religion did not disappear. It can even be said that because the Western world did not have strong management over the lower classes, the Western world had to rely on religion.
Behemdorug used technology to promote religion, while Duran used primitive means to promote religion. It started with strange costumes, and then there were fierce speeches. Of course, Duran also had technology behind him. It would be impossible to win without technology. Only technology could defeat technology.
Television, well-wishers, medical surgery, etc. are the technologies that Behemdorug relies on. And Duran is backed by nuclear power generation, at force fields, and the technology of making protein and flour from air.
The two sides can be said to be evenly matched, because both are supported by black technology.
However, Duran's side is more radical and populist, and his way of believing in religion is simpler and more emotional. There is also the Inquisition, which is especially aimed at people like Dema who have lost their faith.
Dema was tied up by Duran and his men, and was dragged to the square every day to serve as a negative example and be criticized.
The high priest had to admit that Duran was really more suitable for this kind of feudal superstition. After listening to his speech, she felt that she was convinced by him. However, she gradually discovered Duran's goal. Duran actually wanted to unify ordinary people and blessers, warriors and slaves, because Duran said more than once that as long as they believed in the savior, then everyone was a brother or sister, whether it was a warrior or a slave, whether it was an ordinary person or a blesser, they should join hands and work together.
This was not available in the city-state. In the past, only those who were qualified to watch TV were believers, and those who were not qualified to watch TV were inferior people. Electricity is limited, and the number of televisions that can be operated is also limited, so the number of people who can watch TV is also limited. The high priest never thought of changing the way of preaching, and never thought of using the most basic oral preaching.
Although illiterate people can watch TV, there is a problem with televisions and scriptures, that is, the number is limited.
When technology is declining, it is impossible to have a TV in everyone's hand, and it is impossible to include more people in the religious system of the city-state. Duran did not rely on television or scriptures, but directly preached that "truth cannot be expressed in words or images, and what the eyes see is not necessarily true", and specifically criticized television preaching.
Duran used the primitive method of oral storytelling to preach, so that many believers could imitate it vividly after listening to it a few times. Then they could preach, and spread it to ten people, ten people to a hundred people...
It is difficult to translate the plot of the movie on TV into language vividly, so even if someone wants to retell the story after watching TV, it is very difficult.
In short, Duran is now performing a primitive defeating advanced religious course. The effect of preaching is the best by using the most primitive oral transmission method. In addition, with strange costumes and various behavioral precepts, this traditional religious method defeats the doomsday religion.
Not to mention that Duran also gives away food for free, there will be more believers.
In order to distinguish, Duran called the religion represented by the high priest "city-state religion" and his own religion "universal religion", and he also wanted to surpass the other in name.
Why universal? Because as long as you believe, everyone is one of us. Next, Duran is going to preach among the slaves, because if he doesn't go, the slaves will be brainwashed by others.
It turns out that when Agni was beheaded, there was a handsome boy beside him. The boy was obsessed with a fire in winter, so he firmly believed that Agni was a god, because in this winter, no one else could bring warmth except God. And Agni saved him. He was captured by Behemdorug's looting team and was originally going to be shot. It was Agni who killed the soldiers and saved his life.
Although the boy was captured later, his legs were cut off and used as batteries because of his electrical ability. But he firmly believed that Agni, the god, would come back to rescue him. He believed that as long as he lived, the god would come. Sang kept saying this, and he was steadfast no matter how much pain he endured. The slaves laughed at him at first, but gradually they began to hope that there would be a burning god to save them, the poor slaves.
The slaves were all beginning to believe in Agniism. If Duran didn't take action, he would not be able to join the universal religion.