5.3.13 Christianity struggles for power, but not for destiny

If the theoretical system is not able to convince the intellectual elite in the collective, it will not have organizational power; the larger the number of people, the more fragmented, hollow, and scattered it will become. If this theoretical system cannot continue to take the lead, attract more and more intellectual elites to be convinced from the bottom of their hearts, and supplement and complete it in the light of practical progress, but instead move toward fiction, disguise, self-justification, and ignorance, xenophobia, and punishment, the crowd gathered around it will become more and more self-contained, stubborn, and closed-minded; the more people there are, the more reactionary, violent, external, and internal strife.

Like Christianity, a religious organization that has developed for more than 2,000 years and has such a large number of followers, is there no progressive elite of the intellectual class among them? Yes, but they do not sincerely believe in their teachings, and they do not occupy the mainstream of the intellectual class of human society. Most of the so-called sectarian elites who are mixed in with it are speculative for fame and fortune for the sake of profit, or they are obsessed with the dogmatic speculation of the Christian theological system and are unable to extricate themselves. More intellectuals supported their kings and lords than the Christian churches and the papacy of various countries and places.

Otherwise, even if the monarchs of various countries refuse to submit to the Pope, the intellectual elite of their own countries, who are either teaching, or skillful, or official, or writing, or good at business, will collectively "coerce" the king to be willing to be his courtier, and work in harmony with the Church and the Pope to create a unified empire of church and state. The king, his wise men and his ministers, mainly used the conciliation, comfort, backwardness and even reactionary side of Christianity, as if the Chinese heavenly masters controlled the way of Confucius and Mencius, but did not get its essence.

The Christian theocracy is powerless to absorb the progressive elite of the intellectual class of each country, and it cannot dismantle the main human resources of each country, so the kings of each country can cooperate with it and help it grow bigger. It is also for this reason that, no matter how many believers there are in Christianity, successive popes have not been able to effectively organize them and form a joint force in which "the religion must be moved from what it is to the religion, and the religion will not die if it is pointed out."

Throughout the day, the Christian faithful were scattered and could not shake the foundations of the power of kings. It (especially Catholicism), from the Pope down, from the priests and preachers upwards, has degenerated more and more into a rentier class that lies on the fertile soil and the backs of the people of all countries, mainly by grinding its mouth, shaking its pen, running errands, and playing tricks to generate income, as well as the reactionary forces that extract the "tithing tax", persecute the infidels, burn Bruno, and imprison Galileo.

The popular power of races and countries can be initiated from the bottom up, but they must be regulated from the top down, and this requires the careful and full participation of a large number of intellectual elites to form a system of systems, regulations, discipline, and dialectical interaction between implementation and implementation, so as to control the overall situation. Otherwise, it is easy for popular forces of this magnitude to run rampant, go to extremes, blindly retaliate, loot and destroy everything, and lead to the spread of populism.

In contrast to Christianity, Judaism adheres to the fundamental principles that "the Creator (i.e., JHWH) is the only true God" and that "the Creator is invisible". Except for "my lord", they are all mortals. The creation of "our Lord" is all, and the existence of "My Lord" does not need to be self-discerned and proven—mortals who want to communicate with JHWH (Yahvi) believe in Judaism, and gradually attain enlightenment, practice, and ascend through the priestly interpretation of the prophet's message of "My Lord" as relayed by the prophets in the Hebrew Bible......

This kind of logic is concise, clear, and comfortable, and there is no need to go around in the speculation of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Believers follow the commandments of the Hebrew Bible, such as the Nazirites' "four distinctions of voluntary consecration," and obey the sacraments, the law, such as circumcision, prayer, worship, and the commandments of eating and drinking—self-cultivation, concentration, contemplation, and enlightenment, and the whole person is opened to "my Lord."

Even the transcendent who is a scholar of heaven and man, who moves the world and the world, and who has wisdom through the ages, can only feel infinitely humble and small in the face of the nature, human beings and the universe created by JHWH and manifested through it.

The logic is not far-fetched, there are criteria for promotion, ethics is based on standards, and practice is infinite...... Therefore, Judaism can be embraced by the intellectual elite and will be pursued endlessly throughout its life. Therefore, the Jews can take the structure of Judaism as the four pillars and the teachings of Judaism as the blood and ideology, and form a wholeness. Therefore, the Jews were able to follow the direction of JHWH (Yahvi) and work together for more than 2,000 years - on May 14, 1948, the restoration of the country was successful.

The Han people believe in the same way as "heaven", whose textual origins are about a thousand years earlier than the beginning of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud of Judaism, and the knowledge reserve and theoretical system are also richer. Because in ancient times, there were "Three Tombs", "Five Classics", "Eight Suo", and "Nine Hills" came out - "Three Tombs" is related to Fuxi, and it is said that Fuxi created Taiji Bagua. King Wen's deduction of "Zhou Yi" has laid a solid transcendental and cognitive foundation for the Han people's belief in "heaven".

"Yi Xiang" says: "Heaven is strong, and the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement", which means that "the way of heaven and the spirit of man are connected". Not only are the spirits connected, but people's bodies, work and rest, crops, life, conquests, thoughts, and feelings all correspond to the way of heaven and the principles of heaven: obedience leads to prosperity, disobedience leads to defeat; according to reason, things are successful, and disorderly entry is punished...... Later, Confucianism and Taoism were connected, and the traditional politics, economy, ethics, morality, and laws of the Han people were deeply extended, and developed into the only Chinese civilization that has continued to this day in human society.

The Han people believe in "heaven", and the Jews believe in JHWH (Yahvi) is not necessarily the same origin, but it is homogeneous, resonant, special, and the same return. The transcendent ability and thinking level embodied in the two are comparable, and they form their own systems. Since their inception, countless intellectual elites have devoted their lives to it, dedicating their lives to it, and they have flourished to this day - it is no exaggeration to say that no matter how many theories, theories, factions, and types of civilization there are in the world today, they can all be classified as the two major civilizations of the East and the West. And the two major civilizations are derived from each of them.

The difference is that the Han people have unique objective conditions, and they have been holding on to the "heaven" to be arbitrary, commanding China early, and for thousands of years, they have developed the "god" of the Jews to a unified country with the integration of politics and religion almost to the extreme. The Jews, on the other hand, chanted "My Lord," have been quietly accumulating capital and growing power in countries ruled by foreign people—something that has not been seen before, but has increasingly played the role of a "shadow government" in the modern world.

Chapter 3 Man's faith is right and wrong for 5,000 years

Chapter 5 Since he became a god, man has fallen into the abyss

One Study: The Theory of Creation: "The Awakening of Human Nature"