Chapter 15 Chapter 01 "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" (15)

What do you believe in?love what?what to expectUndoubtedly, these weak people also hope that one day they will become strong and their "kingdom" will come one day. They call this kingdom "God's kingdom"-they are so humble in everything and everywhere!But in order to gain the experience of living in this kingdom, one must live for a long time, must pass through death, yes, must obtain eternal life in order to be able to make oneself "in faith, love and expectation" permanently in "God's kingdom". The earthly life spent is compensated.But what is the compensation?What to use to compensate? ...I think Dante made a great mistake here, when with a cleverness that evokes a sense of dread, he wrote "I too was created by eternal love" on the gates of his hell,— Anyway, all the more reason to write "I am also created by eternal hatred" on the gate to Christian heaven and "eternal bliss", let the truth stand at the gate to lies!What is the bliss of that heaven? ... We can probably guess the answer, but it would be best to ask one of the most respected authorities on such matters; Thomas Aquinas, the great teacher and saint, to confirm it for us, using In a tone as gentle as a lamb, he said: "It is always more joyful to be blessed than to be punished. Similarly, in the kingdom of heaven, people will feel happy when they see the wicked punished." If the reader is willing to listen, here is a successful priest Expressing the same thought in a stronger tone, he tries to dissuade his fellow Christians from doing what they want openly—why?He wrote very fiercely: "God's salvation will give us a whole different kind of joy. Instead of strong men we have martyrs. If we want blood, we have the blood of Christ.  … But imagine what awaits us on the day of his triumphant return!" Then he went on to describe the enchanting vision: "Yes, there will be miracles - in that last eternal Judgment Day. The Christians never believed that day would come, and they sneered that the day would never come when the whole old world, with all its inhabitants, would be destroyed by a fire. But what a miracle it would be Magnificent, how vast! The sight shall astonish me, how I shall laugh, rejoice, and exult! I shall see the kings, the supposedly great kings, with Cupid, and Those who groan in the dark abyss and receive the Ascension are welcome together in Paradise! I shall also see the magistrates who have blasphemed the name of Jesus melt in a flame that is more powerful than they were born of The flames kindled by the hatred of Christians are hotter. I shall also see those prophets, those philosophers, who taught their students that God cares nothing, that man has no soul, and if he had, that soul Nor will they ever return to their original bodies. Those philosophers will blush with shame before the assembled students! Also I will see poets trembling before the jury, this is not Radhaman The seat of Toss, not the seat of Minos, but the seat of Christ, the Christ they never looked up! Then I shall hear the voices of the tragedies, whose voices are still more touching in their own tragedies ; and the performers, whose limbs are extraordinarily soft in the fire. I shall also see the charioteers burned red by the fire wheels! Then there are the sportsmen, not on their field, but by the Push the fire--unless I don't want to see the scene then too, but I'll see as much as I want, for they once took their wrath and resentment out on God; and I'll say, "This is What he did, the son of the carpenter or the whore (Tertullian here imitates the Jewish invective, as we shall soon see, uses the title Jesus' mother in the Talmud), the one who does not keep the Sabbath, That Samaritan with the help of the devil.He is the man whom Judas betrayed to you, who was beaten with reeds and fists, stained with spittle, and made to drink gall and vinegar.He is the one who was secretly stolen by the faithful, so people say he has ascended to heaven, unless the gardener removed him so that the visiting crowd would not trample his vegetable patch!What a scene!What ecstasy!What Roman consul, accountant, priest could give you such a gift?But all this is ours, and faith in the mental imagination paints the picture.But what are those things that cannot be heard, seen, or felt?It is, I believe, a greater joy than that which can be felt in a circus, theater, amphitheatre, or any stadium. "——Sic.