Cyber Heroes

Although many people in later generations will think that the Roman Empire was great and wealthy. In fact, it is not wrong.

But only a minority of "citizens" can share this wealth.

What kind of people did the first Christians come from?

The poorest man in Rome.

Freedmen living in the city, bankrupt from all walks of life, or newly freed slaves. Slaves from the various large estates, small farmers in the fields increasingly trapped in debt bondage.

There is absolutely no common path to liberation for all these people. For all of them, Paradise was gone; the Paradise of the bankrupt freeman was the city-state of the past in which their forefathers had been free citizens; the Paradise of the captive slaves was the paradise of the captives. The era of freedom before capture and slavery; the paradise of small farmers is the eradication of the clan system and public ownership of land.

Therefore, under the circumstances at that time, the only way out was in the field of religion.

The theologian opened a gap leading to dreams in the depressing world.

Another world opens up. The continued existence of the soul after the death of the body gradually became a recognized creed throughout the Roman world. The belief that the soul after death will receive some kind of reward or punishment for its actions during life is also becoming more and more accepted. But rewards are quite unreliable; the ancient world had a strong sense of spontaneous materialism, which regarded life on earth as much more precious than life in the underworld; the Greeks regarded eternal life after death as a misfortune.

"Settlement after Death" is simply overwhelmingly powerful compared to the original "Just World". In the spiritual field, it has the epoch-making significance of a nuclear weapon—in layman’s terms, it is the spiritual atomic bomb.

"Death" is no longer simple, nor is it the end. As a result, human beings can finally overcome a little bit of the fear of death and gain a little bit of fear.

This mechanism, which cannot be proven or falsified by humans, has become a "fair" patch.

In the imaginary world, a reliable third-party monitor appears.

As a result, people in the world - those who have nothing, find someone they can love, and they also gain the love of others.

God guarantees this love.

The doctrine of "love your neighbor" and the comment "He who has mercy on his neighbor" unite people who have nothing.

For the people of the Empire who worship all gods, a sect that believes in one god is equivalent to "atheism." This is a sin.

The empire's malice did not destroy the love of the people at the bottom for each other.

…

--like?

--like?

Yuki sincerely wondered if he had read the wrong book.

what is love"? Does he really know the word?

Is it possible that the Six Dragons Sect relies on "love" to unite themselves?

Those Six Dragon Cult members... really love each other... love each other...

Yuki suddenly thought of Borshu again. Borshu was in pain because he knew the love from Green Forest was sincere. The power of technology has also implanted deep-rooted love for his fellow Green Foresters in his consciousness.

In a sense, Green Forest is also united by "love".

But "love" shouldn't be...

--calm down……

Yuki told himself this

"Love is not the answer" - this is what Xiangshan has said to him repeatedly. After Borshu's death, Xiangshan once specially educated Youki.

"People cannot lack love, but love cannot be the thing that saves the world." Xiangshan said to Youki when he placed a fragment of Bor's outer armor next to the pillow of the strange girl in Dr. Hu's clinic.

Love is part of the means, but it cannot be the whole means.

Love should be included in the purpose, but it cannot be the entire purpose.

like……

"Love is not the answer, but the Six Dragons Sect chose love as its foundation, so does it exhibit the characteristics of a 'religion'?"

Yuki felt that his guess was quite absurd.

He was doubtful. From what he saw along the way, the Six Dragons Sect were all so... vicious?

No, maybe it’s because something like “love” is exclusive.

Yuki flipped to the next chapter. On the west side of Eurasia, when that religion was sprouting and entangled with the empire, a sect was also born on the east side of Eurasia. Although in the next thousand years, these two sects will develop into completely different things. However, in their early stages of development, they showed surprising commonalities. This sect spread in Bashu, with "life and death" as its core, and "fear of death" and "beautiful vision" as common topics to reconcile the conflicts of different groups under its rule. In its organizational form and daily activities, it shows characteristics that are very similar to those of Western sects. During the Republic era, Easterners also gave this early sect a high evaluation.

This author obviously prefers to look for "commonalities" between different civilizations, and then explore the reasons for the birth of "individuality" based on the "commonalities".

The author of this book believes that perhaps this organizational form is the best answer that people of that era can give, and perhaps the most suitable.

World religions in the South Asian subcontinent sprouted earlier. Six to seven hundred years before this, the first enlightened people had already explained the idea of ​​"all beings are equal" in view of the inherently unequal world.

Yuki quick review. He doesn't really care about the specific content of religion. He just wanted to find a template that could help him understand the Six Dragons Sect.

However, he soon fell into confusion again.

Just turning over a chapter, these early sects changed their appearance one after another.

The Eastern sects completed their surrender almost without any struggle, and the process was smooth. After it entered the upper class society, its past doctrines and organizational structures were quickly abandoned and no longer discussed by anyone. It was even called derogatory names like "demon" and "ghost". “Talking about the Mysterious” seems to be the most doctrinal thing to do

The sect that defined the origin of the old era became part of the empire. The issue that theologians were most concerned about was once the definition of the relationship between "the leader who is the origin of the chronology" and "God". They are willing to spend hundreds of years discussing this issue and they are willing to be divided over it.

Obviously the prophet made an annotation for "neighbor" so that people can try to love those who are far away, but later people are trying to close the door opened by the prophet and re-limit the scope of the definition.

Nor did they see "mercy" when they later treated people who were different from themselves.

——Incomprehensible.

Yuki thought so.

He began to feel that he might not be able to find the template of the Six Dragon Sect from his past research.

Was the Six Dragons Church born out of a desire to save the world? How can this be? It's just too ridiculous.

How many years would it take for a religion from the distant past to reverse its stance?

And how long has the Six Dragons Sect existed?

Yuki shook his head.

All kinds of thoughts came to me. Faced with these thousands of thoughts, the young man couldn't figure it out for a moment. His brain also didn't know which part to prioritize.

With this "overwhelming" feeling, Yuki impatiently turned to the end, wanting to see what kind of summary the author would write.

What is slightly surprising is that the author first admits that he is actually very ignorant in this field. Even though religion is something that comes after the birth of human beings, it is also very complex. Human beings have developed to this day, but they are increasingly unable to recognize their own appearance.

"Religion" is a very complex topic.

“… When the African warlord countries were still hunting black slaves, there were Jesuit monks in Africa in the form of guerrilla warfare to rescue slaves… But it must also be noted that these slaves will be sold to countries that believe in God… ...At the same time, we also need to note that the Jesuits are...an extremely conservative force...but from their behavior...I am therefore willing to believe the declaration that 'if Jesus lived, he would be a guerrilla'... "

"...The sect that claims to be 'justified by faith' and advocates that 'anyone has the right to interpret scriptures' may be more progressive from a modern perspective... But within the sphere of influence of the Kelvin sect, a Catholic How to interpret incidents such as the priest standing with the revolting peasants from a class historical perspective is a topic worthy of our discussion..."

“… Any religion is a social entity composed of religious believers, religious organizations and religious ideas, and is a branch of the spiritual system of human society… It not only reflects the suffering caused by nature and human society, but also places its trust in Religious people protest and lament about the suffering in reality and hope and pursue ideal life. In different historical periods, religion has played different roles in promoting or hindering social progress..."

“Every religion has more or less such components: scholars who discuss metaphysical ideas in magnificent religious places, ascetic hermits who practice in the wilderness and deep mountains, those who are rooted in the general public and have deep connections with superstitious behaviors. The origins of folk beliefs, the clergy who operate religious sites... Looking at religion in a one-sided and general way cannot deepen our understanding of ourselves as humans..."

Yuki hit his head against the inner wall of the submarine.

Not far away, Yin Zhewei looked funny and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I just feel that even people who lived in the past are so... so... 'unknown' about the religions of the past..." Yuki put his head against the wall and turned around: "The topic of religion is too complicated. It's probably a mistake to think of analyzing the Six Dragons Sect by 'understanding religion'."

Yin Zhewei's eyes lit up: "Oh oh oh, that's it... If you have any ideas, you can bring them out and let us all discuss them together. You know, we can be considered scientific research knights after all. In this aspect, we can barely be considered. It’s professional.”