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The following articles are all written by Longkong Forum Pioquanzi (the book’s supporting actor: Zhang Yingchen. The founder of Lingao New Taoism Concept:
Excerpts from Zhang Yingchen’s diary:
The conference was about to be held, and I visited temples in the Lingao area for several days. Obviously, the religious activities in the Lingao area have not yet been on the right track. The status of Taoist and Buddhist clergy in the area is extremely low, and these clergy themselves cannot be said to be qualified religious personnel. Apart from chanting sacred scrolls, they basically lack the quality of formal religious personnel. They are not proficient in setting off flames or praying and repenting. A large part of them are still illiterate.
The low quality of Taoist and Buddhist religious personnel gave Lingao's folk religion a huge space for activities. Similarly, it also gave the Jesuits a huge future for development.
After visiting the Lingao Church and Dean Wu, I am convinced that if the Lingao Church continues to develop without checks and balances, it will eventually achieve the status of the state religion in the time-traveler regime.
However, most of us time-travelers don't seem to realize the significance of the existence of a state religion. Yes, at present, our Crossing Group is a group of elites influenced by atheism. The Lingao Church, which is restricted by the religious office, cannot compete with the Crossing Group at any level. However, in this 17th century when compulsory education and materialist ideas have not yet been popularized, the church will undoubtedly have a wider influence than our education.
We, the Crossing Group, are not beguiled by its lies, but what about our descendants and our subjects? Obviously we will not use Marxist-Leninist materialism or any theory of industrialized society to influence most of them. In fact, judging from the performance of the majority of soy sauce party members in the Maid Revolution, they will not pay attention to this issue.
It is conceivable that in a few decades, the Lingao Church will become a decisive force influencing society, and after the time travelers grow old, its influence will continue to expand, and it will even come back to bite the time travellers' regime. itself.
I think we need a check and balancer from the Lingao Church to balance this monopoly of this monster we have created with our own hands. Perhaps, this is the mission given to me by God.
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Since modern times, the Quanzhen and Zhengyi sects we have seen are the standard models of Immortal Taoism. But if we go back to the oldest Tianshi Dao and Taiping Dao, and pay attention to the Taiping Jing and Xiang'er Commentary, we will find that primitive Taoism is not very interested in various methods that pursue immortality.
For example, "Xiang'er" commented that the alchemists at that time, Tuna, Dao, Shen Shen and other contemplations were "pseudo arts", and those Taoist sects that worshiped ghosts and gods were called "pseudo Taoism". However, "Xiang'er Commentary" advocated observing the precepts and taking shortcuts. However, Tianshi Dao soon merged with Bashu's Ghost Dao, adding a large number of spells and spells that it was originally opposed to. This kind of religious evolution of "carrying the red flag and fighting against the red flag" had similar situations in various sects in the Middle Ages.
For example, Christianity was influenced by the pagan beliefs of Rome and began to absorb the gods of various European nations as saints; Islam in South Asia and Central Asia retained the shamanistic spirit worship; after Indian Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, it was combined with Taoist thought to give birth to the Buddhist curse. Zen Buddhism.
Even Pastor Bai and Dean Wu of our Religious Affairs Office had to accommodate the customs of the Ming Dynasty when they spread Christianity.
The doctrine is alienated by heterogeneous civilizations, which is an inevitable problem in missionary work. Although we, Lingaozhong, have knowledge and historical experience far beyond this era, unfortunately this problem is still unavoidable. However, Lingao's thoughts are destined to replace the old ideas, and Lingao's religion is destined to replace the old religion. Whether it is Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Buddhism, or traditional Taoism, they will all be replaced by Lingao's religion. This is a great battle. Ideological war has no room for tenderness, humility and courtesy.
Throughout history, ordinary administrative means cannot eliminate the old religion. Only when a nation completely converts to the new religion will it completely break with the old religion. In other words, only religion can eliminate religion.
The task of our Taoist Council is not to completely eliminate the old sect, but to completely isolate all the temple masters, temple owners, Taoist officials, and monks of the old sect by reaching out to believers, uniting believers, and mobilizing believers. Religious models and religious systems are completely broken, and new sects are established that obey us...
Excerpted from Chairman Zhang Yingchen's "Abstract of Speech at the New Year's Seminar of the Religious Affairs Office"
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Father Matteo Ricci has always insisted that this ancient land contains the remains of our Lord’s salvation. Regrettably, when Father Zeng Dezhao participated in the excavation and translation of the sacred church inscription erected by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago for our Lord Jesus (that is, the popular stele of Nestorianism in China in the Great Qin Dynasty), Father Matteo Ricci had no time to share the story of our Lord Jesus. Through the hands of the separated brothers, Jesus left a holy legacy in this empire.
However, I believe that the omnipotent God has already given enlightenment to the ancient Chinese sages in his own way. Only the followers of Pythagoras in India (the Jesuits once believed that Indian Buddhism and Hinduism were descendants of the Greek Pythagorean Mysticism) polluted the gospel of the Lord with their fallacies and heretical poisonous views.
This caused Confucian philosophers to gradually lose the lofty ideals of their ancestors, and Pythagoras's insights caused almost irreparable damage to the inspired philosophers of the other school. As a result, these scholars, who should have lived in the rose garden of bliss, degenerated into alchemists and idolaters like the Gnostics.
When the learned elders of Lingao mentioned the current situation of the old empire, they usually believed that the Tatars in the north were the biggest enemies of civilization and belief. They mentioned Attila the Hun, the Tatar dynasty served by the Venetian Marco Polo, and their sadness at the destruction of the ancient and great imperial civilization by the nomads.
As a group of descendants of former dynasty nobles who were exiled overseas, the "Yuan" dynasty is unforgivable, but in the eyes of me, a foreign priest. The most unforgivable crime of the Tatars is that they used the harmful ideas of the Indian followers of Pythagoras to poison the two paths of salvation that originally belonged to the Chinese, and made the wise people of Confucianism and Taoism who were called and inspired The classics eventually became something in the hands of today's rigid code of the philosopher-official "Mandarin" group and the Taoist priests who only know heretical doctrines harmful to the soul such as alchemy and charms.
But the salvation of our Lord Christ enabled their best leaders, like the prophet in Exodus, to lead their best people to find a place when the barbarian pagans almost destroyed the brightest and most glorious side of this country. a new Jerusalem. Here they preserved the salvation of our Lord, as well as their most glorious morals, traditions, knowledge and dignity.
They also retained their own religion, which, however, had not been poisoned by the harmful doctrines of India. There are countless reasonable factors in it that show that it once contained the way of salvation of the Lord Jesus, and it is also the most fertile soil suitable for the growth and fruiting of the seeds of Jesus Christ.
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Thirty years after the publication of this monumental work, the famous "Liturgical Controversy" broke out between the Empire and the Italian Church. The ignorant and conservative feudal leader, the pseudo-Pope Clement XI, went against the trend of history and declared brazenly that " "The Great Empire" was published as a masterpiece and included in the catalog of European masterpieces. The historic movement of learning from the East to the West also fell into decline because of his series of reactionary measures. As a result, Europe gradually fell behind the tide of historical development.
"Introduction to the Great Empire in the Directory of the Pseudo-Roman Curia"
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Zhang Yingchen’s letter to He Ying before leaving
When He Ying received Zhang Yingchen's letter, the tall Mongolian doctor had already boarded the boat to the mining area.
Holding this thing which was more like a work plan than a private message, He Ying had to admire the courage and action of this magician.
He sat down, unfolded the letter, and slowly read the parting words of Lingao's first wine minister and chairman of the Taoist Association.
"...The result of the collision between heterogeneous civilizations is often that the advanced eliminate the backward, and the civilized eliminate the barbaric. Therefore, in this era, the Jesuits easily eliminated the Mayan priests in South America. Going back three hundred years, Islam and Tibetan Buddhism easily converted the two Mongolian groups. However, collision will inevitably bring about blending, and it is inevitable for religions to be infiltrated by the old traditions of new believers.
"Comrade Wu Mangshi seems to want to conduct a social experiment in changing customs in Lingao, just like the Jesuits in Macau who built the Notre Dame Church like the Guanyin Temple are trying. This kind of thing, Central Asia and Southeast Asia Imams, Jesuits, Dominicans, and Franciscan monks in South America all tried. However, without exception, they failed shamefully.
"Herdsmen in Central Asia still trust shamans, Muslims in the Philippines still worship sacred trees, Mayan and Inca goddesses continue to occupy the center of South American churches in the form of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It can be expected that in the future work of the Religious Affairs Office , resisting the erosion of the old culture will become a long-term and arduous task.
"Therefore, conversion, conversion, and changing customs can only be preliminary work. As Matteo Ricci said, 'This is just cutting off some branches in a thorny wasteland.'
“Only by reshaping the soil in which the old society and old culture live can we truly achieve our goals.
“The ultimate goal of transforming faith is to transform civilization, that is, to transform medieval agricultural civilization into modern industrial civilization. I hope that I and my successors can always remember this, instead of foolishly falling into some kind of dogmatic fetishism. Self-isolation and regression.
“The opium of obscurantism in the Middle Ages is beneficial to us in the short term, but in the long run, we must get rid of the Catholic style and transform short-term investment into long-term continuous investment.
"The church should shoulder the obligation of teaching. In addition to the ideological education instilled through religious forms, basic education is the top priority of our work. The boring 'dispute over the translation of the name of God' between monks and priests and Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, The "battle between hell and heaven" and the "battle over the similarities and differences between Taiyi, Chaos, Taiji, Reason and God" are nothing more than a set of European medieval philosophies and a set of Asian medieval philosophies competing for legitimacy and right to speak.
“Our job is not to introduce a new set of opium in order to rule, but to serve as a catalyst for the transformation of the old society into a new society. Nor is it our job to create a new set of old wines and replace the old gods with new ones. It is the hand of the new god that gradually erodes the foundation of the existence of theocracy. The secularization and simplification of religion is a manifestation of social progress in the 17th century. We must guide this new trend, rather than add a new set of new rituals based on the overthrow of the old etiquette. Red tape, let alone turning natural fetishism into mechanical fetishism is something boring and ignorant.
"In my lifetime, I am afraid that I will have to reconcile with the beliefs of the old world. Various sects from the 17th century may be born in Lingao Monastery. I am afraid that the radical and retro True Lord Advent sect or Taoism may appear in the Taoist Council. version of the Golden Dawn Society. But education must be done well. Only a thoroughly secularized civilized world can cut off the ghosts of the Middle Ages at their roots.
At this moment, don’t imitate Sima Jiangzhou. It would be too ugly to have a wet green shirt. Let us imitate the sage from Wenchuan and shout, “Pour me a bowl of practice wine” and embark on the journey that belongs to you and me. The path to adventure.
Wish me luck, old friend. "
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