Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 355 Leading the Patriarch of Africa
To say that he is fundamentalist is not wronging him, in fact, this is the basic teaching of Protestantism.

There are three parts to the classics recognized by the Catholic Church. In addition to the Bible, there are also Holy Traditions, that is, interpretations of doctrines written by church theologians from the age of the apostles. "The result of annotations.In addition to this, the authoritative orders of successive popes are the third part.

In Catholic theory, these three are juxtaposed and all have sanctity.However, Protestantism has put forward the principle of "sola bible", which does not recognize the results of scripture commentary by priests of the past generations, nor does it recognize the decrees of the church, but only recognizes the scriptures themselves.This is the so-called fundamental idea.

The biggest problem with this way of thinking is that on the surface it only recognizes the original version of the scriptures, but in fact everyone knows that this content alone is definitely not enough for a religion to function normally.The Bible itself, which is very sparse in content, definitely needs to be expanded.

Moreover, the original teachings in many places have various problems and must be patched constantly to make the theory self-consistent.Because of these problems, the church has even been split many times.In order to pursue the fundamental principles, all the answers and information obtained by generations of theologians who have studied, debated, and obtained by means of violence and war are all discarded. The consequences can be imagined.

Therefore, even if the sanctity of the commentary works is denied, the act of commentary cannot be denied, and the actual result still requires a new interpretation and commentary.

Without a unified authority and a fixed and strict process, the result is that not only do people continue to annotate scriptures according to their own understanding, but also after there are no constraints, all kinds of random speculations come out.It is said that it is pursuing the original teachings, but in fact, a group of demons are dancing wildly, and no one can control the other.

In the process of observing the operation of the church, Guo Kang can find that in many cases, the superficial phenomenon and the actual effect are completely opposite.

The Catholic Church has a strict organization, and has a strict review process for the interpretation of the Bible, and it will be officially announced only if there are no problems.It seems that this should be a very conservative religious group.But in fact, the church attaches great importance to "advancing with the times", and often uses its power of interpretation to make continuous adjustments to ensure that it can keep up with the times.

Not recognizing all existing classics other than the Bible, on the surface, is an anti-authoritative reform measure, but in fact it is a retrogression.

Therefore, we must be cautious when reforming.Not all reforms are necessarily successful, nor does it mean that all reforms are good.Blindly attacking authority may not bring good results.This experience may not only apply to the field of religion.

The emergence of Protestantism is estimated to be inevitable in European history.As the era enters modern times, it is only natural that such a trend of thought emerges in Catholic areas where "rituals collapse and music deteriorates."Now, in fact, there is already this trend.

Moreover, this trend of thought is widely circulated all over the world.It may be under their influence that the Tianfangjiao world, which came into contact with this theory, also raised the trend of fundamentalism about 200 years later.

The religious group of Tianfang Sect is more loose, and there is no core that can dominate the interpretation of scriptures and screen various theories.There are so many sects, and some doctrines are even more "deviant" than those of the Purple Horde: As part of God-worshiping religion, the Purple Horde just doesn't recognize Moses, and they don't even recognize the "sealed prophet" of the Tianfang Sect. .

For example, the Alevi sect, one of the prominent schools in Minor Asia, mainly worshiped Ali.There are also some sects who simply believe that their leader is the sealed prophet, and that others, such as the Prophet, are the pioneers of the king, and they are not counted.Moreover, there are many such sects, from India to Syria, everywhere.

This looseness may also make them vulnerable to fundamentalization.But having said that, it’s really hard to say which one caused more damage to the world, the God-worshiping religion of the fundamental religion or the Tianfang religion of the fundamental religion...

However, it must appear, but it does not mean that it must be accepted.On the contrary, Guo Kang can be sure that the Purple Horde Khanate must not accept this inevitable trend.

Because the Roman Church in the Purple Horde itself is the real "Protestantism".

The classics currently used by the Roman Church are called "Heavenly Father's Scripture", which includes three parts: "Tao Te Ching", "Shangshu Ancient Classics" and "Tianxiong Salvation Scripture".

Among them, "Tao De Zhen Jing" was written by Patriarch Zhang with reference to Taoist classics and orthodox scriptures. "Shangshu Gujing" imitates the Confucian "Shangshu" format, adapting some of the "Old Testament" stories that they think can be used, and then adding various data chapters from ancient Egypt to ancient Rome, and even some Central Plains stories. A combined collection of documents.The "Brother Tianxie Jing of Salvation" was compiled by extracting the "New Testament" from the Bible, and adding a lot of Taoist theories, and even the concepts proposed in the "Taiping Jing" can be found in it...

This made Guo Kang suspect that the Church of Rome was created by Patriarch Zhang and others because they suffered a lot in the Central Plains in order to completely enjoy their addiction.

But later, when he knew more, he no longer doubted it—because he looked up the information and found that Patriarch Zhang once proposed an idea, thinking that the distribution of the five patriarchal districts was too unreasonable, so he hoped to re-divide the old place of Rome into 36 Patriarchate, establish a more effective system to ensure the efficient operation of the church.

As early as when the Purple Horde was still fighting against the local nobles in Bulgaria, this idea had already been proposed by him.After Khan Ting took control of Dadu, he really began to try to implement it.

Since most of the old places of Rome are not yet in his hands, he also specially set up a lot of "remote leader" titles.Judging from the documents, the senior priests at that time had many honorary titles such as "leading the patriarch of Africa" ​​and "leading the presiding judge of Gaul".

Later, probably because he had dealt with other forces too much and felt embarrassed, his successor Yin Daochang hid these titles invented by his master.

So Guo Kang is very sure that it is indeed these Taoist priests who fiddled with it for fun...

Of course, this is not nonsense. After all, the organizational skills of the early Taoists were really high, and their experience is of course very useful.But this also makes the Purple Horde doomed to be out of step with Protestantism - because it is so new.

Fundamentalists only recognize two copies of the Bible, and do not recognize other works; and the classics of the Roman Church are almost all new works written by themselves. Later, in order to be compatible with other Orthodox denominations, they began to recognize other classics.This is already a contradiction at the level of immortality.

Guo Kang felt overwhelmed when he thought that in the future, he would have to fight against enemies that kept popping up for this reason.Of course, the group of people from Tuo Huan might be happier instead.In Rome, many people probably worry that there will be no war...

(End of this chapter)