1840Indian rebirth

"What teaching?" I asked this question on a rainy day, when Ma Shao was discussing matters with him in the chief's hall.

"Mormonism." The chief said, "About half a month ago, several Mormons came to the town and preached everywhere... I didn't pay much attention at first, until they tried to preach to the soldiers and police."

Ma Shao asked: "How did you deal with it?"

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

"You did a good job." Ma Shao nodded, thought for a while and then said, "I understand. You have just come back. Go rest first and taste the harvested wheat."

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As the chief left the chief's hall, Ma Shao and Yu Tian looked at each other.

Rainy Day smiled: "Let me guess, your current mood should be closer to 'disgusting'."

Ma Shao: "You guessed wrong."

I was stunned on a rainy day.

Ma Shao exhaled: "It's not close to it, but it's basically it."

He has always disliked religion, especially missionaries - when he was in college in his previous life, he almost got into trouble with a Christian who preached to his roommate at the police station.

Strictly speaking, he is not an atheist, but he feels that God and religion are two completely different things.

It's like nitrogen and cyanide. Although both contain nitrogen, he doesn't mind breathing in nitrogen, but he doesn't want to touch cyanide at all.

Ma Shao can tolerate relatively mild or hazy religions, but Mormonism is really intolerable to him.

Of course, he actually doesn't know much about Mormonism. He only knows that this religion belongs to Christianity in a broad sense, and that's enough.

What's more, even among Christians, Mormonism is a relatively alternative sect, and its most well-known label is its advocacy of polygamy.

But what to do?

Methods such as driving away or even killing can be effective for a while, but they are not long-lasting and are not economical.

Although Mashao rejects religion, he has to admit the tenacious vitality of religion.

Throughout the ages, there have been many people who have wanted to suppress or even destroy religion, but no one has really succeeded. Even China, the most secular country, has spent thousands of years and hundreds of millions of people cultivating it, but it has only made religion milder.

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Only the long-term penetration of scientific education into the entire society can it be possible to fundamentally dismantle religion. This is a slow process and cannot be rushed.

"I know you don't like religion." Yutian said thoughtfully, "but I have to say that the kind of pure belief you hold is difficult to popularize. At least in a short period of time, it cannot compete with various religions."

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

Ma Shao looked at him: "You mean, we should create a new religion?"

"Yeah... almost." Rainy Day obviously wanted to change his words to take care of Ma Shao's mood, but after thinking about it, he found that there was no better way to say it, because that was clearly what he meant.

The horse whistle said nothing.

It's not that he hasn't considered this option, but he has never been able to cross that hurdle. But regarding the issue of faith, he can't come up with any better solution.

So on this issue, for a long time, his mentality can basically be described as "escape".

Yes, even the escape mentality, the ostrich mentality, he can realize it himself.

Rainy Day continued to persuade: "We cannot eliminate religion, and it is not easy to even 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 is a huge position... This spiritual position

If we don’t occupy the position, others will.”

"If that's the case, why don't we create a religion that we can control ourselves?"

"And I believe that with your wisdom, you will be able to create a better religion. This will be a better result for ourselves and the believers."

Ma Shao held his forehead: "But, when I give lectures, I always-"

Rainy Day interrupted him: "Yes, you have been trying to guide the people to embrace atheism, or to say that 'there is no need to believe in God.' But ask yourself, how many people have really done it?"

The horse whistle was silent.

Yu Tian is right. Although he has served as a teacher for hundreds of people, of these many students, only a few have been truly guided by him to the path of arming their minds with a scientific spirit. So far, they may only be in mathematics and science courses.

Just five people.

The ideas gained by most Mianxiong students in the classroom are, at best, only a certain degree of dispelling superstition.

This is the result of him directly serving as a teacher. As the tribe expands in the future, he will definitely have fewer and fewer opportunities to teach in person.

In the past, Ma Shao felt that he had no authority and therefore could not promote rational beliefs. Now that he has a certain degree of authority, the situation is nothing more than this.

"Unrealistic ideals are sometimes more terrifying than no ideals. This is what you told me, but you are making this mistake now." Yutian said again.

"Okay, you're right." Mashao sighed, "But I still can't accept it. I used to guide students away from religion, but now I am asked to create a religion."

Yutian said: "If you feel embarrassed, I can stand up for you. You still promote godless education and make it a law, and in those corners where the sun doesn't shine, I will help you take care of everything."

"You mentioned to me before that everything in the world and all orders have their complementors. The deficiencies of tigers and wolves are complemented by vultures, and the deficiencies of the government are complemented by gangsters... Now, let me be the complementor of the spiritual world."

Ma Shao looked at the rainy day and suddenly felt an inexplicable emotion and sigh.

After a while, he left this sighing mood and took a deep breath: "Religion always needs a holy book, so let's co-write a sacred book."

The two finally reached an agreement and decided to create a systematic religion and use religion to fight religion.

Before officially starting to create, Mashao and Yutian first discussed and summarized the characteristics of major religions and compared the pros and cons of different characteristics.

The most important trade-off is undoubtedly between science and secularity.

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

At the same time, as a physics teacher, Ma Shao does not want to create a worldview that seriously conflicts with physical conclusions.

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

The Great Spirit gave birth to a singularity, which expanded into the universe like a balloon... He even vaguely hinted at wave-particle duality, the constant speed of light, the Higgs boson and the like.

These suggestive things have been carefully considered by him and are just right in proportion. They will neither become science because they are too detailed nor become myths because they are too vague.

Nothing can be seen yet, but as science advances, I believe people will gradually experience many wonderful coincidences.

In addition to a worldview, scriptures also need stories and values.

The story is basically a novel written by two people. Although it uses a lot of terms from Indian legends, the plot has nothing to do with thoughts and feelings.

In fact, even if they wanted to have a relationship, they couldn't. After all, the Indians didn't have writing in the past, and all kinds of stories were passed down orally, so they were extremely chaotic and without any standard.

They collect stories from all over the world, and Ma Shao, as a person from the future, has especially rich stories in his mind.

For the stories in the Holy Scriptures, the first requirement is appeal, which must have strong emotional mobilization power, making people burst into tears, become angry, or smile with joy.

This is a very laborious matter.

But with the cooperation of the horse whistle and rainy weather, it became extremely simple.

Mashao was responsible for providing the stories, and Rainy Day was responsible for providing the writing. The two worked together and easily created a large number of exciting stories. Even they themselves couldn't help but feel excited and unable to control their emotions after reading them.

Several times, they even forgot that they were writing about religion and just focused on discussing the plot of the novel.