Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 1012 The Story of Religion

When human beings face the unknown, they will feel "fear".This state of "beyond one's own conscious understanding" actually means "dangerous".

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

Human beings who have just acquired the ability to think begin to be afraid of such things.

The brain circuit originally used to identify similar communication information will try to identify those vast "unknown" "emotions" under this drive.

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

However, just as human beings use imagination to supplement the lack of vision, they will imagine a supernatural being who does not exist and think like a human being to explain all this and to make vague promises to them so that they peace of mind.

Human beings imagined "God".

Then, just as there is an "agreement" between people, humans will try to make an "agreement" with "God".People live according to the "agreement" and offer sacrifices to the gods, and the gods also follow the "agreement" to relieve the unknown fear for mankind.

The role of substances such as tetrahydrocannabinol is also indispensable.

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

Yuki combined the knowledge of cognitive science he learned while practicing internal skills, and Xiang Shan's casual teachings to understand the content of the book.This work, which was written in 1999, is subject to some time constraints.At that time, human beings had not yet completed the Human Genome Project, optogenetics had not yet been born, the brain was equivalent to a black box with only one corner opened, and evolutionary psychology was just in its infancy, a concept easily accepted by many later scholars. For the author of this book It is still "unknown".

It can be combined with some subsequent discoveries, but it can better understand the content of this book.

"In other words, primitive religions were born by human beings to explain the world..."

Yuki nodded, then shook his head again.

This should not be the Six Dragons Sect.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, "science" has become the only witchcraft with great power.

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.

Besides, these followers of the Six Dragon Sect did not reveal any particularly weird worldview.The world they perceive is still scientific.

Whether it is the information obtained from the memory of the disciples of the Six Dragon Sect that the master forced to read, or the information obtained from the exchange, they all express this.

Yuki continued to read.

"Another characteristic of primitive religion is that it conforms to the most intuitive and instinctive values ​​of human beings...well, that's how it is..."

In primitive religions, a tribe often believes in one god.This "god" is the guarantee of the scale of the tribe.Primitive human beings imagined such a supernatural existence to guarantee the mutual agreement, and people are willing to believe that the people around the tribe are on their side.

In primitive times, people in a tribe usually had blood ties naturally.

"Love each other" is the foundation 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.

And the same is true of 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", it is mainly analyzed based on the religious leader at the origin of the chronology.

This was the case with the sect he believed in before the religious leader.At the beginning, that sect was "the patron saint of a nomadic tribe", and the military culture represented by the "Lord of Armies" also permeated the most primitive belief of this god.

As the "protector god of the tribe", what this god advocates is "love between tribe members".

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

That God was the "jealous God" - "the God who is jealous of evil".While "jealousy" that destroys love is a sin within this belief, divine jealousy is different.God loves believers with exclusive desire like a husband loves his wife.When a believer believes in something else, namely "evil", he becomes "jealous".

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

This nomadic tribe named "Hebrew", even in the later civilization era, lived in the city, but also firmly wanted to live in the same community with the same tribe, and only be "neighbors" with the same tribe.

This kind of family love similar to "clan" is so deeply rooted.

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

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

Until the religious leader "as the origin of the chronology" appeared.

Here, the author of this book writes: "About Jesus Christ, the academic world has always had different opinions. Excluding those absurd and supernatural views, the academic world can be divided into two 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 in hundreds of years of collective creation since the first century AD. Jesus Christ does not exist. He should essentially be the geometry of a group of first-century theologians .Here, in order to reduce the cost of understanding, let us assume that such a prophet did exist in the first century AD..."

This prophet redefines teaching.

He made an additional note for "neighbors".When one of his followers asked him, "What is a neighbor?" he replied, "There was a man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him half dead, and threw him away." and he went away. By chance a priest came down this way, saw him, and passed on the other side. Another Levite came to this place, saw him, and passed on the other side in the same way. But there was only one Shemer When the Leahites came there on the way, when they saw him, they were moved with compassion, and they went up and poured oil and wine on his wounds, bound them up, put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn to take care of him. On the second day, he took out two denarii, handed them to the shopkeeper, and said, "Take care of him; the rest of the expenses will be returned to you when I come back." Do you think which of these three people is the neighbor who fell into the hands of the robbers? "

The believers said, "It is he who has mercy on him."

The religious leader said, "Go ahead and do the same."

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

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

There is no doubt that he distorted the teachings and replaced the thousand-year-old tradition with his own will.

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

Within the faith of the religion, this leader fulfilled the ancient prophecy, renewed the original ancient prophet's contract with God, and reinvented the faith.Since then, the rule of "not preaching to the Gentiles" has also been broken.

The descendants of the nomadic people who originally believed in this god also hated the religious leader.In their view, the religious leader was a traitor who smashed 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 to rebel.

The governor of the Romans felt no ill will towards the leader, and even gave him a fair chance.

But this religious leader may be disappointed with his fellow-clan, and may also have the idea of ​​"bleeding from the beginning".

This is the demystified version of that famous religious story.

After that, the beliefs improved by this religious leader became the basis for the formation of the common people at the bottom of the empire.

The dispossessed organize their strength among themselves according to this belief.

Even if the empire once wielded knives on these low-level congregants, and even used extremely cruel punishments, it did not frighten those low-level people.

Because of the rule of the empire...

It's brutal enough.

(End of this chapter)