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Chapter 97 Materialism
"This is about a very important concept in the formation of religions, that is, creating gods."

"God-making?"

"You can understand it this way, as an ordinary person, are you more willing to be close to a good person or a bad person?"

"Of course he's a good guy."

"That's right." Lance grinned, "We are naturally close to good people because our subconscious mind feels that good people will not hurt us, but bad people may hurt us. This is essentially driven by our own interests. Collective cognition formed in long-term social activities.

In order to make ordinary people feel close, religions will put all the truth, goodness and beauty that can be imagined into their gods, and create a perfect god. Anyway, the explanation is in their hands, and they can tell ordinary people just by opening their mouths. There's a natural appeal why not do it? "

In fact, there is another very important point that Lance did not finish. It is not only the church that preaches good qualities, but also the ruling class.

This can make the thoughts of the people under the rule stable and not resist the ruler, which is determined by the social attributes of human beings.

To a certain extent, the logic of the operation of religion and the state is similar. The upper class enjoys privileges, the middle class maintains the rule, and the lower class can only be severely exploited.

The difference is that one can tell stories without taking any responsibility, while the other will be blamed for not playing well.

And now, as a lord, he has also sat on the ruling class, and decided that his head will not easily say those words to demolish himself.

He attacked religious forces because this thing interfered with his rule over the territory. Who the hell believes in Lao Tzu?

Thinking of this, Lance unceremoniously pointed his gun at the church.

"Who wouldn't say that? I also said that I will take you to the moon! And only you, the largest middle and bottom-level people, need to abide by those dogmas. As for whether the higher-ups have fulfilled the dogma, most people don't know. Say one thing and do another , you must have experienced it yourself.”

Leonard really has a deep understanding, and now that he thinks about it, the sage preached by the expedition is indeed what the lord said, it is just an excuse for the high-level church to drive them to plunder, and he is no different from those bandits.

"But what about those magic spells? Why can they perform them?"

Leonard thought of a very crucial question. One of the reasons why the world church is so powerful is that it will really appear in front of people.

Lance didn't show timidity about this question. He had been thinking about it a long time ago, and he knew the answer long ago.

"You should know that flintlock guns rely on gunpowder to use, but do you know the ratio of gunpowder? Do you know why gunpowder burns and bursts of light and heat?
You don't need to know the facts, all you need to know is to put gunpowder in the gun and detonate it, and you don't need any faith to use a musket.

The same is true for divine spells. It is just a method that we cannot understand at this stage, so even those priests can use it in violation of the holy law. Instead, they help us prove that divine spells have nothing to do with gods.

They are just a group of guys who have monopolized the magic, just like they have monopolized the formula and output of gunpowder. It is just a joke for those guys to use it to promote the dedication of believers. It doesn't matter. "

In fact, Lance has a more appropriate example. The so-called magic can be said to be everywhere in modern times, and that is the mobile phone.

Ordinary people can use it, but they don't understand the principle of mobile phones. The principle of production is in the hands of a few people, and the threshold for production methods is very high.

At the same time, there are a large number of cultists (users) among different brands of mobile phones. They attack each other and start wars (network cursing wars), just like fucking cults.

The skill that Lance has used for so long feels similar to a mobile phone. He doesn't know how it works, but it's easy to use anyway.

Hearing this, Leonard also seemed to understand something, closed his eyes and sighed.

"So there is no god at all..."

The belief that I have fought for all my life is a deception at all, which is hard for anyone to bear.

It's just that Lance didn't continue to criticize the church, but brought up the beginning of the topic.

"This goes back to the question from the beginning. You asked me whether I believe in the existence of God. Now I will tell you my answer."

Lance finally corrected his attitude, and said solemnly:

"I believe in God because I have seen God, but I don't believe in God because God does not need human belief."

He has already traveled through time, and the panel clearly states that there is an indescribable existence standing behind him. If he still doesn't believe this, then there must be something wrong with his brain.

But belief and belief are two different things. He is a firm materialist. The existence of God can only mean that there is a powerful "life body", but it does not necessarily mean that one must believe in Him.

It's just that Leonard has not experienced his kind of education and growth environment, so he feels very contradictory and incomprehensible when he hears this.

Lance explained without haste.

"God is originally a concept given by man. With the development of the times, all things that are difficult for humans to understand can be called gods. Simply put, God refers to the object of human beings' personified imagination of external forces that surpass humans.

You can compare ants and humans. To ants, a rock that is like a mountain is just a fist-sized stone to humans. Even a child can move it.

Maybe you just accidentally kicked away the stone while walking, and the ants can’t understand that this power of moving mountains and reclamation worships you as a god, or you just drop a little food on the ground after eating, those ants don’t know why the food falls from the sky, and they think it’s theirs The gods who give food worship you madly.

But you don’t care about an ant at all, because the gap between man and God should be infinite, so big that it’s hard to understand each other, just like an ant can’t see your whole body clearly no matter what, and it’s hard to understand what you’re thinking. And you don't understand what the ants are thinking, so I say that gods don't need human beliefs, just like you don't need ants' beliefs. "

In fact, if you can, Lance would like to use the format to explain it. God is actually materialistic. It can be understood that if you put a file in one format in another format, the decoding method will definitely cause the program to crash, so humans see God directly. Just crazy.

Also, even if the format is the same, but the data flow of God is close to infinite, your human brain that can only decode 1kb will be directly burst by the data flow in an instant.

"God is invincible..." Leonard looked a little decadent. The lord's too vivid metaphor let him know that ants are invincible against humans, and despair enveloped his heart.

Lance didn't pay much attention when he heard this, and he grinned very confidently.

"Theoretically, it is very difficult for human beings to defeat gods, because they are not on one level, and there is one in front of us now. Once he fully awakens, his power is enough to destroy the entire world.

But in fact, there is a gap between God and God. He was imprisoned by an unknown existence under our feet and fell into an endless sleep, and that existence gave me divine enlightenment and gave me the power to influence him.

Simply put, when gods can be influenced by humans, they are no longer invincible, even if they are stronger than humans. "

"Since this is the case, why doesn't that existence directly kill the evil god, but give human beings strength?"

　These two chapters are not about water. I want you to understand the general situation of the gods in the world I built. In fact, gods are materialistic...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)