Chapter 1013 A Complicated History

Although many people in later generations will think that the Roman Empire is great and rich. In fact, it is not wrong.

But only a minority of "citizens" can share this wealth.

What kind of people did the first Christians come from?

The poorest people in Rome.

Free people who lived in cities and went bankrupt in various industries, or slaves who had just been freed. Slaves from various large estates, small farmers in the fields who were increasingly trapped in debt slavery.

For all these people, there is absolutely no common path to liberation. For all these people, heaven is gone forever; the heaven of bankrupt free people is the city-state that was both a city and a country in the past where their ancestors were free citizens; the heaven of prisoners of war is the free era before being captured and becoming slaves; the heaven of small farmers is the clan system and public ownership of land that have been eliminated.

Therefore, under the circumstances at that time, the only way out was in the field of religion.

Theologians opened a gap to dreams in the depressing world.

Another world opened up. The continued existence of the soul after the death of the body gradually became a recognized creed throughout the Roman world. The belief that the soul after death would receive some kind of reward or punishment for its actions during life was also increasingly accepted by everyone. But rewards are quite unreliable; the ancient world had a strong spontaneous materialism, which regarded life on earth as much more valuable than life in the underworld; the Greeks regarded eternal life after death as a misfortune.

Compared with the primitive "just world", "post-death settlement" is simply overwhelmingly powerful. In the spiritual realm, it has the epoch-making significance of nuclear weapons - in layman's terms, it is a spiritual atomic bomb.

"Death" is no longer simple, nor is it the end. As a result, humans can finally overcome a little bit of fear of death and gain a little bit of fear.

This mechanism that cannot be proved or falsified by human power has become a patch for "justice".

In the imaginary world, reliable third-party supervisors appear.

So, people in the world - those who have nothing, found someone they can love and also gained the love of others.

God guarantees this love.

The doctrine of "love your neighbor" and the comment of "the one who shows mercy is your neighbor" united the people who had 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 malice of the Empire did not destroy the love between the lower people.

...

- Love?

- Love?

Yuki sincerely doubted whether he had read the wrong book.

What is "love"? Does he really know this word?

Could the Six Dragons be united by "love"?

Those Six Dragons believers... really love each other... love each other...

Yuki suddenly thought of Borshu again. Borshu was in pain because he knew that the love from the Green Forest was sincere. The power of technology also implanted the love for his fellow Green Foresters in his consciousness, which was deeply rooted.

In a sense, the Green Forest was also united by "love".

But "love" shouldn't be...

- Calm down, calm down...

Yuki warned himself

"Love is not the answer"-this is what Xiangshan had repeatedly said to him. After Borshu's death, Xiangshan had specially educated Yuki.

"People cannot live without love, but love cannot be the thing that saves the world." Xiangshan said this to Yuki when he put a piece of Borshu's outer armor fragment next to the pillow of the strange girl in Dr. Hu's clinic.

Love is part of the means, but not all the means.

Love should be included in the purpose, but not all the purposes.

Love...

"Love is not the answer, but the Six Dragons chose love as the foundation, so it presents the characteristics of a 'religion'?"

Yuki felt that his guess was quite absurd.

He was very skeptical. From what he had seen along the way, the Six Dragons were all so... vicious?

No, perhaps it was because "love" was exclusive.

Yuki turned to the next chapter. On the west side of Eurasia, when that religion was budding and entangled with the empire, a sect was also born on the east side of Eurasia. Although these two sects will develop into completely different things in the next thousand years. However, in the early stages of budding, they showed amazing commonality. This sect spread in Bashu, with "life and death" as the core, using "fear of death" and "beautiful vision" as common topics to reconcile the contradictions between different groups under its rule. It showed characteristics very similar to Western sects in its organizational form and daily activities. In the Republic era, Orientals also gave this early sect a high evaluation.

This author obviously prefers to find the "commonality" between different civilizations, and then explore the reasons for the birth of "individuality" based on the "commonality".

The author of this book believes that perhaps this form of organization is the best answer that people of that era can give, and perhaps it is also the most suitable.

The world religion of the South Asian subcontinent sprouted earlier. Six or seven hundred years before this, the first awakened ones had already explained the idea of ​​"equality of all beings" in response to the world that was born unequal.

Yuki quickly reviewed it. He didn't really care about the specific content of religion. He just wanted to find a template that could help him understand the template of the Six Dragons Sect.

However, he soon fell into confusion again.

It was just a chapter, and these early sects changed their appearance one after another.

The Eastern sects almost surrendered without struggle, and the process was smooth. After it entered the upper class, the past doctrines and organizational structures were quickly abandoned, no longer discussed by anyone, and even contemptuously called "demons" and "ghosts". "Talking about the mysterious" seemed to be the most appropriate thing to do.

And the sect that defined the origin of the old era became part of the empire. The issue that theologians were most concerned about was once the definition of the relationship between "the leader who was the origin of the calendar" and "God". They were willing to spend hundreds of years discussing this issue, and they were willing to split for this.

Obviously, the prophet made an annotation for "neighbors" so that people could try to love people far away, but later people tried to close the door opened by the prophet and re-limit the scope of the definition.

When they later treated people who were different from themselves, they did not see "compassion".

——I can't understand.

Yuki thought so.

He began to think that he might not be able to find the template of the Six Dragons Church from past research.

Could it be that the Six Dragons Church was born out of a desire to save the world? How is this possible? It is too absurd.

A religion from the distant past, how many years would it take to change its position?

And how long did the Six Dragons Church exist?

Yuki shook his head.

All kinds of thoughts came one after another. Faced with these thousands of thoughts, the boy couldn't make sense for a while. His brain didn't know which part to prioritize.

With this "headache", Yuki impatiently turned to the end, wanting to see what kind of summary the author would write in the end.

Slightly unexpectedly, the author first admitted that he was actually still ignorant in this field. Although religion is something that was born after the birth of mankind, it is also very complicated. As humans have developed to this day, they are increasingly unable to recognize themselves.

"Religion" is a very complicated topic.

"...When African warlords were still hunting black slaves, Jesuit monks rescued slaves in Africa in the form of guerrilla warfare...But we must also note 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 precisely...an extremely conservative force...But from their behavior...I am willing to believe the declaration that 'If Jesus were alive, he would be a guerrilla fighter'..."

"...A sect that claims to be 'justified by faith' and advocates that 'anyone has the right to interpret the scriptures' may be more progressive from the perspective of modern people...But events such as 'In the Calvinist sphere of influence, a Catholic priest stood with the rebellious peasants'...How to interpret from the perspective of class history is a topic worth exploring..."

"...Any religion is composed of religious beliefs. The social entity composed of believers, religious organizations and religious thoughts is a branch of the spiritual system of human society... It not only reflects the suffering brought to people by nature and human society, but also embodies the protest and lament of religious believers against the real suffering and the hope and pursuit of an ideal life. In different historical periods, religion has played different roles in promoting or hindering the progress of society..."

"Every religion has more or less such components: scholars who explore metaphysical thoughts in magnificent religious places, ascetic hermits who practice in the wilderness and deep mountains, folk beliefs rooted in the general public and deeply rooted in superstitious behavior, and clergy who operate religious places... Looking at religion in a one-sided way and in a general way cannot deepen our understanding of ourselves as human beings..."

Yuki hit the inner wall of the submarine headfirst.

Not far away, Yin Zhewei looked at it and found it funny, and asked: "What are you doing?"

"I just think that even people who lived in the past are so... so... 'unknown' about the religion of the past..." Yuki put his head against the wall and turned his head: "The topic of religion is too complicated. Thinking of analyzing the Six Dragons by 'understanding religion' may be a fundamental mistake."

Yin Zhewei's eyes lit up: "Oh, so... If you have any ideas, you can also bring them out and we can discuss them together. You know, we are scientific research knights after all. We can barely be considered professionals in this area."