Chapter 3 uprising of ideas

We Europeans are living in a chaotic wasteland world. Although some things still stand tall here, most of them have collapsed and decayed, and their appearance is terrible.The scenery was like a picture, and where could you find a ruin more beautiful than this—a ruin overgrown with weeds? The church is like a ruined city.We have seen with our own eyes that the foundation of Christianity has been shaken, the image of God has collapsed in people's hearts, and the belief in the ideal of Christian asceticism is declining.Yes, such a long and well-constructed edifice as Christianity, the last Roman building, built for a hundred years, cannot be destroyed overnight.However, the shock of the earthquake, the gnawing, excavation, gouging, and moisture of various ideas will inevitably accelerate its collapse.The most amazing thing is that the people who tried their best to maintain and support this building became the ones who tried their best to destroy it. These are the Germans!It seems that the Germans do not seem to understand the nature of the church. Could it be that their IQs are not high enough?Or is faith too fragile?The freedom and free thought of the Southern Europeans is the foundation of the church building, and the suspicion of the Southern Europeans about nature, people and souls, that is to say, is a very different life experience and understanding from the Northern Europeans.

Martin Luther's Reformation, taken as a whole, was the righteous indignation of "simpleness" against "complexity", which, to put it more strictly, was nothing more than a misunderstanding, a forgivable, crude but honest misunderstanding— —People do not understand the character of a church of many achievements, but only see its rotten side; the doubts that every triumphant and confident power allows are misunderstood, and its generosity is misunderstood... …today people are always kind enough not to weigh in on Martin Luther's disastrous short-sightedness, superficiality, and indiscretion on some of the major issues of power, mainly because he came from the people, Because the people are too far away from the ruling class and lack the instinctive desire to seize power.

Thus, Martin Luther's job, the desire to rebuild the Church of Rome, became simply a destructive job, which he did not intend and was unaware of.With all the hatred of an honest man, he tore at the web that the old spider had spent so long and painstakingly weaving.He distributed to everyone the holy books of the church, and these books fell into the hands of those linguists who wanted to destroy all faith based on books.He destroys the concept of "the church" by abandoning the belief in divine consolation, knowing that as long as the so-called oracle or inspired ideas that founded the church continue to exist in the church and play a role in the construction of the edifice, Then the "church" can maintain its strength.Martin Luther also gave back to priests the right to have sex with women.The people, especially folk women, hold a reverence attitude towards priests mostly because they believe that people who are special in sex are also special in other aspects. Therefore, the people have no doubts about the superman, miracle and God who saves people among the people. , and this belief has found defense by the most elegant and intractable lawyers.After Martin Luther sent women to the pastor, he deprived the pastor of the right to listen to the confession of the believers. From a psychological point of view, this is correct, but at the same time he canceled the pastor himself, because the most important role of the pastor is to be a god. The ear, the ear is a well of silence, a tomb for the faithful to conceal the secret of repentance.Behind Luther's slogan "Every man is his own priest," with its peasant sly dictum, concealed an indelible hatred of the "gentlemen" and their rule.He shattered an ideal which he knew was unattainable, hated its degenerate form, and fought it most resolutely.The reality is that this man, who could never become a monk, rejects the rule of the church. What he does within the church organization is exactly what he achieved through the struggle to the death in the state organization. Peasant uprising".

It is generally possible to judge and evaluate the impact of Luther's religious reformation today; however, who can naively make a simple evaluation of him based on this?For all this, he has no responsibility, he does not understand what he is doing.There can be no doubt, however, that European, and especially northern European, crudeness of thought, and its "benevolentization"--if one cares to hear such a moral word--was advanced a great deal by Luther's Reformation. step.At the same time, the turmoil in the ideological world caused by the religious reformation, the desire for independence and the belief in freedom made thought "unite with nature".When people admit that the Reformation has prepared and promoted the value of "modern science" that we now respect, it should be added that the attitude of the Reformation and modern scholars played a negative role.They lack reverence, shame, and depth for religion, but they are innocently loyal and honest to the entire intellectual world. In short, the populism of the intellectual world is also the evil result of their influence.The pessimism that has characterized the last two centuries has not, until now, allowed us to escape the yoke of populism.

"Modern idea" is also an important content of this northern European peasant uprising, this uprising against the indifference, ambiguity, and suspicion of southern European thought-the southern European thought that built its own huge monument in the Christian church.Finally, we should not forget that what is the Church compared to the "power of the state"?It is first and foremost an institution of government, which safeguards the ruling class and the superstructure, which trusts in the power of ideas and sees no need for violence.Therefore, the church is more noble than the state power under any circumstances.

Where is the most dangerous and cunning lawyer in the defense of morality, which is supposed to be found?Here is an uneducated man, a man of limited talent who does not appreciate the joy of thinking, but who, after all, has a certain education, so he knows it;The last self-consolation cheated out of inheriting a little property is the "gift of labour," the self-forgetfulness in the so-called "day's work."He is ashamed of his existence, and perhaps hides some minor vices.He has to read some books that he can't understand, and participate in some exchanges in the ideological world that he can't comprehend, so as to gain vanity and indulge himself.His whole body is poisoned, because for him, thought, education, wealth, and loneliness are all poisons, so that he will definitely develop a habitual revenge mentality and will...

Please guess what he must have in order to have a sense of superiority over the elites?How can I have the pleasure of revenge for myself, at least for my own imagination?Morality is all he needs to have, nothing else - I bet!He needs the vocabulary of morality, the extravagant talk of justice like a pounding drum, wisdom, sanctity, and virtue, asceticism (how artfully asceticism hides what one does not have...), sagacity His pretense is silence, friendliness, gentleness, and these are the pretense of what is called an idealist, under which the hopelessly small-minded and his vanity thrive. I hope that my words will be read in the right direction: from the opposite of this kind of thinking, there are eccentrics who are regarded as saints, wise men and praised by the people; The moral beasts of the world, St. Augustine belongs to this category.Fear of thought, vengeance on thought—ah, these vices as driving forces often become the origin of morality and even morality itself!Even that claim which has been made in some parts of the globe, the philosopher's claim to wisdom (a claim of the stupidest and most proud kind), is it not still mainly a disguise in India and Greece?Sometimes this calls for many lies to be sanctified under the guise of education, as if to take care of the young, who must restrain themselves and be protected by worshiping certain figures (by being misguided)  …

In most cases, the philosopher's cover-up is for self-salvation, pulling himself out of exhaustion, old age, and indifference. This is a dying emotion, and it is also the instinctive wisdom of animals when they are dying-they will be alone. To be alone, to be silent, to be alone, to crawl into a cave, to be wise... what?Is wisdom just a disguise for thought by philosophers?