"What teaches?" The phrase was asked on a rainy day, and Ma Whistle was discussing things with him in the Chieftain's Hall.

"Mormonism." "About half a month ago, a few Mormons came to town and went around preaching...... At first I didn't care until they tried to proselytize to the soldiers and police. ”

Ma Whistle asked, "How did you deal with it?" ”

"I drove the missionary away, but one policeman seemed to be persuaded by him." Shi Chang said.

"You're doing a good job." Ma Whistle nodded, thought for a while, and then said, "I know, you just came back, go rest first, go taste the harvested wheat." ”

"Yes."

The chief left the chief's hall, and the horse whistle and the rainy day glanced at each other.

Rainy Sky smiled: "Let me guess, your mood should be closer to 'disgusting' right now." ”

Whistle: "You guessed wrong. ”

I was stunned on a rainy day.

Ma Whistle exhaled: "Not close to, but at all." ”

He had always been more averse to religion, especially missionaries – in his previous life, when he was in college, he had almost gotten into trouble with a Christian who was preaching to his roommate.

Strictly speaking, he wasn't an atheist, but he felt that God and religion were two different things.

A impersonal God is acceptable, though meaningless; Religion, on the other hand, is simply a primitive political organization.

Milder or hazy religion is tolerable to the horse, but Mormonism is a bit unacceptable to him.

Of course, he didn't really know much about Mormonism, he only knew that it belonged to Christianity in the broad sense, and that was enough.

Moreover, even among Christianity, Mormonism is a relatively alternative school, and the promotion of polygamy is its most well-known label.

But what to do?

Methods such as expulsion and even killing can be managed for a while, but they are not long-term and economical.

Although Ma Whistle rejects religion, he also has to admit the tenacious vitality of religion.

Throughout the ages, there have been many people who have tried to suppress or even dismantle religion, but none of them have really succeeded. Even China, the most secular of the world, has spent thousands of years cultivating itself with hundreds of millions of people, but it has only made religion milder.

Only the long-term penetration of science and education into the whole society can fundamentally disintegrate religion.

"I know you don't like religion." "But I have to say that the kind of pure faith you hold is difficult to popularize, at least for a short time, it is simply not able to compete with all kinds of religions. ”

After a pause, he added, "Only religion can deal with religion." ”

Ma Whistle looked at him: "You mean that we should create a new religion?" ”

"Hmm...... Almost. "On a rainy day, I obviously wanted to say something different to take care of Ma Whistle's mood, but after thinking about it, I found that there was no better way to say it, because I clearly meant it.

The horse whistle did not speak.

It wasn't that he hadn't considered this option, but he couldn't get over it. But he couldn't come up with a better solution to the question of faith.

So much so that on this issue, for a long time, his mentality can basically be described as "evasion".

Yes, it's the escape mentality, the ostrich mentality, he himself can be aware.

Rainy day continued to persuade: "It is impossible for us to destroy religion, it is not even easy to weaken it, there will always be a group of people who choose to throw themselves into its arms, such a position will always exist, and it will be a huge one...... If we don't occupy this spiritual position, others will occupy it. ”

"Why don't we just create a religion of our own and occupy this position ourselves?"

"And I believe, Ma Whistle, that by your wisdom, you will be able to create a better religion. This is a better outcome for ourselves and for the believers. ”

Ma Whistle held his forehead: "But, when I'm lecturing, I've always been—"

A rainy day interrupted him: "That's right, you've been trying to lead your people to embrace godless faith, or 'God doesn't have to believe'. But ask yourself, how many people have actually done it? ”

The horse whistle was silent.

Rainy days are right, although he has served as a teacher for hundreds of people, but so many students, there are very few people who have really been guided by him to the road of arming their minds with the spirit of science, and so far, there may only be five people in the advanced course of mathematics and science.

Most of the ideas that Sleeping Bear students gain in class are, at best, a certain degree of superstition.

This is still the result of his direct role as a teacher, and as the scale of the tribe expands, the opportunities for him to teach in person will definitely become less and less.

In the past, Ma Whistle felt that he had no prestige and was unable to promote rational faith, but now that he has some prestige, this is no more than the case.

"Unrealistic ideals are sometimes worse than no ideals, that's what you told me, and yet you're making that mistake right now." Said again on a rainy day.

"Well, you're right." Ma Whistle sighed, "But I still can't accept it, I used to guide students away from religion, but now I want to create a religion." ”

Say on a rainy day: "If you feel embarrassed, I can do it for you." You still promote godless education and make it law, and in those corners where the sun doesn't shine, I'll take care of everything for you. ”

"You mentioned to me before that everything in the world has a supplement for all order, and the deficiency of tigers and wolves is supplemented by vultures, and the deficiencies of the government are supplemented by gangsters...... Now, let me be that replenisher of the spirit world. ”

Ma Whistle looked at the rainy day, and suddenly had an inexplicable emotion and sigh.

After a while, he departed from this exclamation and took a deep breath: "Religion always needs a sacred text, so let's write a sacred book together." ”

The two finally came to an agreement and decided to create a systematic religion and use religion against religion.

Before officially starting the work, Ma Whistle and Rainy Day first discussed and summarized the characteristics of each major religion, and compared the pros and cons of different characteristics.

The most important trade-off is undoubtedly about the scientific and the profane.

Religion cannot interfere with the secular, at least not too much, this is a bottom line.

At the same time, as a physics teacher, Ma Whistle does not want to make up a worldview that seriously conflicts with physics conclusions.

In fact, in his creation myth, the process of the birth of the world is almost a modern science described in children's language.

The transcendent spirit created the singularity, which inflated like a balloon into the universe...... He also implicitly hinted at advanced scientific theories such as wave-particle duality and the invariance of the speed of light.

There are even hints about the Higgs boson, the "God particle", which was only confirmed in 2012 with the Large Collider.

These suggestive contents have been carefully considered by the whistle and are just right, so that they do not become scientific because they are too detailed, nor are they too vague to make people feel that they are just myths.

I can't see anything yet, but as science advances, I believe that people will gradually feel a lot of wonderful and shocking combinations...... I don't know how future generations of scientists will feel.

It is foreseeable that more and more people will believe that this is the holy text that truly reveals the mysteries of the universe.

In addition to the worldview, the sacred scriptures need stories and values.

The story is basically a novel written by two people, and although it uses a lot of terms from Indian legends, the content has little to do with it.

In fact, even if they wanted to, they couldn't do it, after all, the Indians had no written language in the past, and all kinds of stories were passed down by word of mouth, so there was a lot of confusion and no standards to speak of.

They took materials from all over the world and adapted various stories about the revelation of the Great Spirit, and Ma Whistle, as a person in the future, has a particularly rich story in his head.

For the stories in the holy scriptures, the first requirement is to be infectious, to have a violent emotional mobilization, so that people can't help but burst into tears, anger or joy when they read it.

It's a lot of brains.

But with the combination of horse whistles and rainy days, it becomes quite simple.

Ma Whistle is responsible for providing colorful stories, and Rainy Day is responsible for providing brilliant writing, and the two have worked together to create a large number of exciting stories that even they can't help but feel emotional when they read them themselves.

Several times, they even forgot that they were writing religious texts and were just discussing the plot of the novel.