Cyber Heroes

Human beings will feel "fear" when facing the unknown. This state of "beyond one's conscious understanding" actually means "danger".

If everything in the world is up in the air, if there is nothing that can guarantee that you will not lose your breath tomorrow, if there is something that can make your next hunt in vain...

Human beings who have just gained the ability to think begin to be afraid of this kind of thing.

The brain circuits originally used to identify similar communication information will be driven by this to try to identify those vast "unknown" "emotions".

Naturally, they will not recognize success. This is essentially just a genetic bug.

However, just as humans use imagination to make up for the lack of vision, they will imagine a supernatural being that does not exist and thinks like humans to explain all this and make illusory guarantees to them so that they can Peace of mind.

Human beings imagined "gods".

Then, just as there are "agreements" between people, humans will try to make "agreements" with "gods". People live according to the "agreement" and offer sacrifices to God, and God also follows the "agreement" and relieves mankind from the fear of the unknown.

The role of substances such as THC is also indispensable here.

The smoke of natural hallucinogens rises and merges with the human imagination. Gods are born in it.

Yuki combined the cognitive science knowledge he learned while practicing internal skills and Xiangshan's casual teachings to understand the content of the book. This work, written in 1999, is subject to certain limitations of the times. At that time, mankind had not yet completed the human genome project, optogenetics had not yet been born, and the brain was equivalent to a black box with only a corner opened. Evolutionary psychology had just sprouted, and many later generations of scholars easily accepted the concept. For the author of this book, It is still considered “unknown”.

But combined with some subsequent discoveries, the content of this book can be better understood.

"In other words, primitive religion was born by human beings to explain the world..."

Yuki nodded, then shook his head.

This shouldn't be the Six Dragons Sect.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, "science" has become the only powerful witchcraft.

The world explained by science may not necessarily be the most acceptable, but it must be the most powerful.

Human beings no longer need other means to explain the world.

Moreover, these Six Dragon Sect believers did not reveal any particularly weird worldview. The world they perceive is still scientific.

Whether it was the information obtained by the master by forcing him to read the memories of the followers of the Six Dragon Sect, or the information obtained through his own communication, this was expressed in this way.

Yuki continued to read.

"Another characteristic of primitive religion is that it is in line with the most intuitive and instinctive values ​​​​of human beings... Well, I see..."

Primitive religion is often a tribe believing in one god. This "god" is the guarantee of the size of the tribe. Primitive humans imagined such supernatural beings to guarantee their agreements, and people were willing to believe that the people around the tribe were on "their" side.

In primitive times, people from a tribe were usually naturally related by blood.

"Love each other" is the basis of everything. "Benevolence" is first of all the love between relatives who are related by blood, and then it can be extended to others. Due to the instinct of social animals, people will naturally love their blood relatives.

The same is true for the religion used as an example in the book.

Since this book was written “at the invitation of a bookseller at the turn of the millennium,” the analysis is mainly based on the case study of the religious leader at the origin of the chronology.

This was the case with the sect he believed in before that religious leader. At the beginning, that sect was "the patron saint of a nomadic tribe", and the military culture represented by the "Lord of the Hosts" also penetrated into this god's most primitive beliefs.

As the "protector of the tribe", this god's belief is "the love between tribe members".

"Love", the love of a group of people bound together by blood ties and family ties, is the basis of this belief.

That God is a “jealous God”—“a jealous and evil God.” While "jealousy" that destroys love is a sin within this faith, God's jealousy is different. God loves his believers with exclusive desire just like a husband loves his wife. If a believer believes in something else, that is, "evil", he will become "jealous."

And this belief also naturally advocates "loving neighbor" - because for nomadic tribes, "neighbors" are family members and relatives who are slightly distant.

This nomadic tribe named "Hebrew", even in the later civilized era, lived in the city, but they still insisted on living in the same community with their own people and only being "neighbors" with their own people.

This kind of family love, which is similar to "clan", is so deep-rooted.

This kind of belief is a firm "not preaching to the Gentiles." For this ethnic group, this belief is their unique spiritual wealth and their private treasure that cannot be given to outsiders.

Although some people without Hebrew blood are also attracted by this teaching of "love", they cannot truly integrate into it.

Until the religious leader who "serves as the origin of the chronology" appears.

Here, the author of this book writes: "About Jesus Christ, there have always been divergent opinions in the academic community. Excluding those absurd and supernatural views, the academic community can be divided into two main groups. One group believes that there was indeed a prophet in the first century AD , carried out the religious reform. The other school believes that this is a virtual image gathered from hundreds of years of collective creation starting in the first century AD. Jesus Christ does not exist. He should essentially be a geometric figure of a group of first-century theologians. . Here, in order to reduce the cost of understanding, we assume that such a prophet did exist in the first century AD..."

This prophet redefined doctrine.

He made additional notes about "neighbors." When a believer asked him, "What is a neighbor?" he replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him half to death, and threw him away. Then he left. By chance a priest was coming down the road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And a Levite came to the place and saw him. He also passed by on the other side. But one Samar When the Leahites were traveling and came there, they saw him and had compassion on him. They came to him and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal and brought him to an inn to care for him. Chapter 1 The next day he took out two denarii and gave it to the innkeeper, saying, "Take care of him, and I will repay you the rest of the expenses when I come back." Do you think which of these three people was a neighbor who fell into the hands of a robber? "

The believers said, "It is because of mercy on him."

The religious leader said, "You can go and do the same."

Under this comment, "neighbor" is a religious metaphor. It no longer means “people who live close to you in space” but “people who will empathize with you.”

The concept of neighbor is precisely the love of distant people that transcends the "circle". The Samaritans were considered an unclean group by the Jews, and they discriminated against each other.

There is no doubt that he twisted the teachings and replaced thousands of years of tradition with his own will.

The so-called "I annotate the Six Classics, and the Six Classics annotate me" is nothing more than this.

Within the faith of the religion, this leader fulfilled ancient prophecies, renewed the original ancient prophet's covenant with God, and reinvented the faith. From then on, the rule of "not preaching to foreign nations" was also broken.

The descendants of the nomads who originally believed in this god also hated this religious leader. In their view, the religious leader was a traitor who shattered their treasures and gave away his family property to outsiders.

Therefore, as a nation ruled by the Roman Empire, they reported to the empire that this religious leader claimed to be the "King of the Jews" and wanted to lead his nation in rebellion.

The Roman governor had no ill feelings towards the leader and even gave him a fair chance.

But this religious leader may have been disappointed with his fellow tribesmen, or he may have had the idea of ​​"bloodshed starting from himself."

This is a demystified version of that famous religious story.

After that, the faith reformed by this religious leader became the basis for the common people at the bottom of the empire to unite.

The helpless people organized each other's strength according to this belief.

Even if the empire once wielded a knife against these believers from the bottom, and even used extremely cruel punishments, it did not scare the bottom.

Because of the empire’s rule…

It's cruel enough.