Chapter 39: The Church at the End of the Qing Dynasty. (related to the work)

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I hope you will take a look, otherwise you will be confused in some situations later, why this Boxer Rebellion will rise and what is the reason, in fact, it is here.

Catholicism is just my opinion, and the simple thing is my opinion, and if you don't like it, I can't help it.

In recent years, Catholicism has vigorously developed its followers in China, and it can be said that it has surpassed Buddhism and Taoism in China.

At the same time, I hope that young friends will treat Catholicism with your attitude towards traditional Chinese immortals, and do not be superstitious. Because I find that the Catholic mission is a bit of that now.

I don't know what you think, but I hope you remember it.

Religion is Amen, and to put it bluntly, any religious immortal is just our "placebo in our heart".

Say it when we need it, and say goodbye when you don't.

Don't be superstitious about that.

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In order to teach the people, we cannot fail to mention some of the situations of Gao Hongsheng in the entire Shandong and Jinan Prefecture in that era.

In fact, that period happened to be the peak period of the large-scale invasion of Shandong by church forces, and it was also the peak period of frequent various teaching plans.

Speaking of the invasion of the church by the local gentry in China, they were the first to awaken, to what extent did they understand? Just look at the letters they sent.

"Catholicism originated in Europa and spread to China. ………… In particular, he is good at rape, mercenary, and takes taking people and the country as a miracle and occupying people's land as a proud feat............ After joining the church, he immediately took the parishioners as soldiers, forced them to donate gold and silver, filled their salaries, and drove them to rush to the front line, so that I Chinese kill each other............ Now my twenty provinces are the same as the deep indignation, and I want to cut the culprit. ā€

Let's see if it's very clear, in the end, there were not so many traitors to help when the Eight-Nation Alliance was in the end, and there was even a team of Chinese soldiers trained by the British involved.

However, these gentry could not fight the government and foreigners at all, and most of the teaching plans ended in failure, and finally came out of the Boxer Rebellion.

Their main method of struggle is passive defense, which is to call on people not to sell real estate to churches and prevent them from building churches in their own areas.

However, there has never been a shortage of traitors in China, and these traitors have become the internal response of the church, and they frequently sell real estate to the church to help the church forces against China.

In fact, at that time, these parishioners could be said to be dogs raised by the church at that time, why do you say that!

On the one hand, they acted as the vanguard of the Church's invasion of Chinese culture, and on the other hand, they took advantage of the Qing government's tolerant attitude and fear of the Church to flatter and deceive the masses of the lower classes to reap their own benefits.

So who are these people? It can be said that most of the bad people are composed of ruffians, hooligans, robbers, and other social residues, and they have a common characteristic, that is, abject poverty and courage and ruthlessness.

Once these residues gain power, then they harm the place much more seriously than the gentry, they are more eager to get power than others, so they do not hesitate to be the slaves of foreigners, grovel to foreigners, lick pus and sores to please foreigners to gain the support of foreigners, and once they gain power, then they can do whatever they want, occupy everything, forcibly seize and plunder, it can be said that they use all ways to block all the possible benefits in their arms, and become greedy.

has long discarded all the benevolence, righteousness, morality, and the shame of their ancestors, and only their masters and foreigners in their eyes.

If you don't believe it, you can find out some information about the absorption of Catholics in the late Qing Dynasty.

Let me give you a detailed account of the conflict between Catholicism and China's national conditions at that time, and you can see who joined Catholicism.

This ordinary Chinese people! I don't understand what foreign religion is, Buddhism or anything at all.

What a church, a Buddhist church, that's it.

Why do you say that?

China has a history of 5,000 years, and how many people in history have taught like this, and those who have not invaded like that, and they have immunity early.

It is also in Nagada, Europe, where there is no culture, no history, and no religion, that Catholicism can flourish.

Moreover, this Europe has a history of religious rule, and kings must be crowned by the pope in order to be recognized by the masses.

But in China it's different, if you look at the history of China and take a good look at when religion ruled China, it has always been religion that provides services to the regime, otherwise it will destroy you.

So what a little bit of reverence for religion in the hearts of the Chinese people from top to bottom! It's like a bit utilitarian, I'm a god, a fairy, I worship, I don't offend you, but don't harm me like that.

Do you think that the Chinese people can immediately have a good impression of a Catholic?

More importantly, Catholicism in the late Qing Dynasty was in great conflict with China's national conditions. Why?

Catholicism does not allow the worship of ancestors, and does not allow ordinary people to watch big dramas.

Don't believe it, take a good look at history.

Historically, after Catholicism was introduced to China, it was not allowed to allow ordinary people to pay tribute to their ancestors and watch big plays, which were contrary to the doctrine.

Because they think that worshipping ancestors and watching big plays is a cult of personality.

Damn, why does the Mader Catholic Church want to get a Jesus out? Isn't the cross of the hair out of the same cult of personality?

But Catholicism is like a cow, "in churches or other ecclesiastical places and in the homes of the faithful there are often images or statues of Jesus, the Virgin and the Holy Men of God, which the Church considers to be "icons" to distinguish them from secular images. ā€

See, other image statues are different from the church's, so they are not "icons"!

The Church also believes that the faithful nod and bow when they pray facing the icon, or when passing in front of the icon. Icons are by no means idols in themselves, nor are they substitutes for God: they are signs, they are used to bear witness to faith; As a means of expression, the icon enables people to understand the content of the faith more intuitively through the picture, so as to play a certain way of expression, the icon makes people understand the content of the faith through the picture, and thus plays a certain role in propaganda, the faithful venerate the icon is by no means to respect or worship idols, but only through the visible (icon) mark, to worship the invisible and invisible God, and to commemorate his salvation project, at the same time, the worship of the icon, can remind and stimulate people's piety and enthusiasm. ā€

Can you understand the above words of church propaganda?

This Westerner! Just like our old master in the past, speak! It's just a bunch of Rorry babbling that you look right, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, it's not like that.

I wondered, are the statues in the ancestral hall also interpreted as a symbol, not worship, according to the Church, and are they also a symbol? It's just to strengthen our memory.

When we worship them, are we also witnessing our faith?

Then, as a unique expression of our Chinese, those statues only make us more aware of the content of our faith, as if it is more comprehensive than Western Catholicism.

So we are not or we do not respect or worship idols, we just use these statues to appreciate the gods in our hearts and commemorate their stories of the creation of the world.

Doesn't our worship of these statues also inspire our devotion and zeal?

So why is it that the statues we worship have become a cult of personality, while the so-called icons of Catholicism are not cults of personality?

Isn't it a bit of a double standard, don't you feel it?

I'm really curious, why do we worship the Bodhisattva, Guanyin, and the Lord of the Land in the temple, how did they become things of personality worship, that is, worship us, are they worshipping too much!

We have not too few gods in China, but too many, so many and so many that there are so many religions in China?

There are twenty-eight stars in the sky, there are yin and earth on the earth, there are mountain gods in the mountains, and there are land gods in the land.

Even the latrine has a toilet god, not to mention any birds and beasts, there are gods and goddesses all around us, do we worship them?

No, the god of the stove, we wiped his mouth and fooled him when the king of the stove went to heaven, and then we ate the stove candy.

Even the dragon king, his old man, when it doesn't rain, we bribe him to beg him for some delicious food and drink.

Even if it doesn't rain, we will carry it to the streets of the old man, and let it know the suffering of our people, right?

Nuwa Niangniang is amazing, but look at who usually visits her old man's house! It's those who have no children and no daughters who go to see if she's an old man.

Look at this is the attitude of the Chinese towards the gods, the Chinese have always been utilitarian and purposeful towards the gods and Buddhas.

Let's say secretly, do you say that they have reverence for gods and Buddhas? I guess it's just when I ask for it, and what I ask for is peace of mind.

Now our gods and Buddhas have become the stuff of personality worship, and the superstition in the West is not a personality cult.

Let's do this! There's nowhere to go.

When you get there, by the way, honest people can't pay homage to their ancestors and watch big dramas after they join the church.

Just these two, do you think the people can do it? Who are the people who do not pay tribute to their ancestors? What can you do?

The most particular thing for Chinese is to worship their ancestors, if you don't sacrifice your ancestors, you forget your roots, just like a person who has no inheritance history, then do you say that this common people can believe in religion?

Watching a big drama is an entertainment activity for the common people, but you must know that in that era, there were no modern entertainment activities such as television, movies, radio, etc., it can be said that the only entertainment activity of the common people is to watch the singing of a big play, but this also makes the church banned, you say that you are the common people and no one oppresses you, will you join the church?

Just like someone tells you now that you're going to join us, but you can't watch TV, movies, computers, or concerts, and you're guaranteed to say that this is going to be a neurotic or not.

But that's how it was at that time, and you all think about who would have gone to church at that time.

And there was a problem with the church at that time, what a problem!

That is, the Church usually acts as the vanguard of national aggression, and throughout history, we can see that the Church played a vanguard role in the aggression of the European powers, and in today's terms, it is the vanguard of cultural aggression.

In China, because ordinary people do not add people to the church, there is no way for the church to absorb some social residues in order to develop, but what they didn't expect is that these social residues will help them so much, and it can be said that they have become the central force for the development of the church.

They forced ordinary and kind people to join the church by squeezing non-church members, and even secretly converted some extorted money into church property to achieve the purpose of property protection, which greatly increased the church's income and accelerated the church's encroachment on China in the late Qing Dynasty.

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