Chapter 82: The Beginning
German Nietzsche once said that "God is dead", this sentence is often misunderstood, it does not mean that God is really dead, but that people can still create their own glory without God's guidance, and use human wisdom to solve the problems encountered, no longer stupidly praying for the blessing of God. Expect Him to send down miracles to remove all calamities.
Such an idea seems great to us, but in fact it has little practical significance for us. This great quote is more of a quip for us to pretend to be thirteen (as I tell you now).
Our ancestors have long been accustomed to adapting to nature with their hands, feet, bodies, and even their lives, and are engaged in a subtle journey of integration in the process of fighting and obeying nature.
When the Great Flood came, Westerners took refuge in the ark under the guidance of the divine envoy Noah, and human civilization continued. And this devastating Flood is nothing more than God believing that the world is filthy and needs to be destroyed.
In this catastrophe, human beings are like dirt in a rice bowl, God feels that the bowl is dirty, so he uses detergent to clean it up, and the reason why human beings can survive is because of God's mercy! He informed Noah in advance of the news of the coming of the flood and the way to get through it.
Thus, under God's guidance, humanity survived.
And what about in our system of civilization?
Gonggong and Zhuan failed to fight for the emperor, and in anger they pushed to Buzhou Xianshan, the heavens and the earth will fall, and the flood will ravage the world. In order to save the common people, the great god Nuwa collected colorful divine stones, sacrificed himself, and made up for the sky with his body.
The same great flood is also caused by the gods, one is the divine punishment of purification, and the other is the calamity of anger, but the former implies that the gods are innocent and the wrong is the people, and the latter in the story is that the people are just the fish in the pond, and the wrong is the gods.
The solution is also different, the former is the revelation of God, after human beings get the method, take self-help, and the final result is touching the grace of the gods not to kill, and the latter is that God's mistakes are made up by God, even if it is the cost of life, the final result is still that people are grateful to the gods.
Is there a difference between the two? The answer is yes.
We never regard God as our only faith, we believe in Him, but we don't blindly follow Him. We never pin our most fundamental hopes on the gods, but at most pray for God's good weather.
We don't expect miracles from God, we just hope that God will do his duty and not cause trouble for us.
The harvest is good, the three animals are yours from God, if it is not good, we can do this kind of thing by scolding God's face.
Therefore, compared to the West, where almost everyone believes in religion, we are fanatics who do not know reverence, and we are bold and reckless madmen.
We are really bad in some ways, and the smog in the capital is the best example.
However, the mountains will fall, the trees will shake, and everyone will run. Our ancestors bought this truth with countless blood and tears.
Of course, there are also people who say that it is impossible to guarantee success by relying on one's own differences, and I think this is true.
But, at that time, will we still regret it? I'm afraid that while talking about scolding every day, we will rush to the enemy camp and die on the back of a cushion!
We will try to survive in a situation where we can barely survive.
During the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu who slaughtered all sides on the land of Europe and destroyed Western Rome were just defeated by our subordinates and driven over there by us.
During the Wuhu Rebellion, the Han people were wantonly slaughtered, used as food, and called two-legged sheep.
Even in the weak two Song Dynasty, our victory rate in foreign battles was always above sixty percent, and you must know that the military generals at that time had a very low status and were civilian officials.
The Mongol cavalry broke through our kingdom, and in less than a hundred years, the royal family, known as the Son of Heaven guarding the country, drove Temujin's descendants back to their hometown, and died drunk in the light of the golden family.
These are too far away, so the millet plus rifle should have heard of it.
Therefore, those who commit me will be punished even if they are far away!
So, when Nietzsche put forward the statement that "God is dead", it was not God who collapsed, but the church.
In the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible, on the sixth day, God created man, so that all that man belongs to God, including land, wealth, wife and children, including life.
The church is God's spokesman in the world, following God's instructions, guiding people, and exercising God's authority.
It means that God is not there, and the church is God, but how can God come for no reason, so the church has absolute dominion in the world.
The Dark Middle Ages, in turn, were the supreme glory of the Church.
But with the rise of the Renaissance, man's power and selfish desires were recognized. Countless demonic writers, artists, and scientists have sprung up.
Although people's belief in God still exists, justification by faith has become a sharp blade, and the church's monopoly on the interpretation of doctrine has been gradually dismembered, and several denominations have been born.
But the contradiction is reasonable: the church is divided into several denominations, but each denomination wants to be God's only spokesman in the world.
Countless battles are being fought in the darkness that people can't see, the reason is very simple, no matter which sect it is, it only wants to leave a glorious image in people's hearts, and the other is that people are smart and not easy to fool.
People of extraordinary power from various sects continue to die in countless cannibalisms.
It's not a big deal, and it can't be avoided, the struggle for power is to kill people.
But suddenly, one day, someone found that something was wrong, and there were fewer and fewer people who gave birth to extraordinary powers, and even if they cultivated, the progress of getting improvement was very slow.
For example, he was born with flames, but he was only the size of a lighter, and after decades of cultivation, he finally evolved into a household gas stove.
But there is no problem with such an ability to kill ordinary people, but compared to modern weapons, it is like a chicken rib.
The major sects had to stop fighting and secretly began to learn scientific and cultural knowledge......
Otherwise, you won't be able to survive at all, times have changed, and no one is stupidly donating money, you have to earn it on your own.
You don't need money to believe in religion, but you need to develop a church!
But not a single church has given up on rebuilding the extraordinary power.
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France, the most romantic country in the world, has a name that yearns for freedom, equality and fraternity.
From an artistic point of view, if Europe is the crown, then France is the crown jewel, and its capital, Paris, is the brightest of the jewels.
In a hidden chapel in Paris, a group of people worshipped the sleeping Lin Wen, and Su Xue was tied to a pillar next to her.
The scene was eerie and solemn......