Chapter 913 (1/2)
First, the end of the world.
The doomsday world has the most balanced development of science and technology among the three worlds. It is neither as new as Shenzhou world, nor as morbid as parlance who only has top science and technology for the time being. It can best convey his will.
Moreover, the population of doomsday world is not large, which is just used as a pilot.
First of all, we have to correct a mistake. The ancient gods in the era of God and Buddha did rely on faith, but they never regard faith as the source of all their power. At most, faith is just a guide for them to get out of the world and become saints.
In fact, even if all the mortals in the four continents of the world believed in a God, all their wills could not add up to pry the sky and move the earth.
They only act as a very important buffer zone in the confrontation between the ancient gods and the world will, which not only affects the world will to recognize the existence of the ancient gods, but also helps the ancient gods to share the pressure from the world will. Otherwise, when an ancient god tries to seize the power of the laws of heaven and earth from the will of the world, they will bear the most terrible pressure alone.
On the surface, the ancient gods controlled the beliefs of believers in the world, but in fact, the believers were only the key to their power. Their real power came from the laws and rights of the world, and from the original power of the whole world. In fact, such power was not far from the nature of painstaking practice.
These factors determine that this belief has a greater limit than the belief in the broad sense.
In a broad sense, belief refers to the belief and respect for a certain advocation, religion or someone or something. The typical embodiment is to regard it as their spiritual pillar and code of conduct. Philosophers believe that belief is ”a strong belief, usually expressed as a stubborn trust in things that lack sufficient evidence and cannot convince every rational person”.
Of course, the believers needed in Anyang should also regard him as their spiritual pillar and their ”words” as their code of conduct, which is necessary for belief.
But this is not the most important thing for him.
As an ancient god, he wants everyone to recognize his existence and supremacy, his omnipotence, his ability to control everything in the world, his own and all things in the world belong to him, so as to achieve his goal.
As for those who believe in him, respect him and regard his ”words” as their own code of conduct, it is the ”suit effect” attached to the achievement of all the above conditions.
This shows that these people can't believe in him as a great man, or just believe in his life and deeds, but really treat him as a God. This obvious religious worship will obviously be rejected as irrational by philosophers in the real world, but when he really goes on the road of ancient gods, in terms of these three worlds, he This God is real, and this belief is rational.
Because there are no gods in the real world, and there will be gods in the future three worlds, all of which have different beliefs. Because the whole world only believes in one God, the concept of religion will be gradually blurred, and there will be no religious distinction at that time.
A country where belief and political power are completely integrated, and where belief does not hold power or conflict with each other.
This is Anyang's roughly imagined future.
There are many details to be said.
As he sat in a chair in the Imperial Palace office waiting for the minister to come, he thought so.
When it comes to faith, most people will connect it with religion at the first time. In fact, faith is the subjective product of the soul. Religion or political party plays a catalytic role, but without religion and political party, people can also have faith.
There are too many kinds of beliefs. Belief in gods, scientific belief, obsession and worship of rights, status, money, reputation, beauty, etc., as well as persistence in thoughts such as ”having fun in time”, ”being a monk for one day and knocking for one day” and ”muddling along” are all beliefs.
Faith can even be directed at a single sentence.
Although the three major worlds have begun to contact with non natural knowledge, such as magic of Olympiad, mysticism, monastic system, etc., they all have very strict concepts, which are just contrary to natural science. So it doesn't mean that it's easier for people to believe in a god if they practice Taoism. Ninety nine percent of the monks and mystics in the world of Shenzhou and the place of origin don't believe in God.
Even on the contrary, to put it another way, the better a system for deepening the understanding of the world and individuals, whether it's science and technology or Taoism, the more rational people will be and the less blindly they will believe in one thing.
For example, there are always more rational religious people who say to others that religion gives people moral character and ideas, beliefs and pillars of life. But there are also scientific evidence that human morality comes from evolution. Morality has nothing to do with religion. There are more facts that prove that people can live well even if they don't believe in religion.
There are also scientific experiments that prove that we can shake a person's religious belief by ”suggesting people's analytical thinking and changing their intuitive cognition”. That is to say, if a belief can't stand firm, it can't rule the world after all, only those who are mentally empty and not strong enough will accept it and chat to fill themselves.What Anyang has to do is not simply to let the ignorant know that he is omnipotent, and let the sober know that he is the reason of the gods.
At least the gods and immortals are totally different.
At the beginning, the gods believed in were all classified into the category of ancient gods in the world of the age of gods and Buddhas, and Nezha, Yangjian, etc. are now widely worshipped gods. It is often said that the theory of ”God is just a more powerful creature than human beings” is only applicable to immortals and ”modern gods”. The reason why ancient gods are regarded as gods is that they still rule the soul of human beings, master the laws of the world, and are the collective of spirits.
Just as the will of the world itself is the will of the world, the collection of all the objects in the universe, people will never say that it is actually a more powerful creature.
In one way, the ancient gods relied on the will of the world and even replaced it!
The difference between ancient gods and modern gods, the relationship between ancient gods and mortals, is actually very subtle.