Chapter 143 How can God punish people!

Wang Chong publicly challenged the theory of the divine right of kings, dragged the feudal emperors out of the arms of the gods, and returned them to their original human appearance, and did not avoid the ancestors of the current emperor, which fully reflected the fearless spirit of a materialist. As for the saying that "good fortune comes to those who do good, misfortune comes to those who do evil, and fortune and misfortune come from heaven", Wang Chong pointed out that this is a fabrication made up by "sages who want to persuade people to do good". Some accidental coincidences cannot be explained, so they believe it to be true.In fact, how can heaven reward the good and punish the evil!Taking killing people by lightning as an example, he profoundly pointed out that thunder is just a kind of fire, so people who are killed by lightning have burnt beard and hair, and scorched skin in the middle of the body, and they can smell the smoke when they go to the corpse.Thunder and lightning are a natural phenomenon, which is formed by the excitation of yin and yang.It is completely accidental that a person was struck to death by lightning in a house under a tree. It is nonsense to say that the gods are angry and intentionally punish those who are at fault.

He questioned the social reality: If heaven can reward the good and punish the evil, why would those who seek wealth and kill their lives, exploit the common people, and make money in a famine year not only not be punished by heaven, but instead prosper and become rich and happy?Why is the life of the wicked not short and the years of the good not long?He humorously said that as long as heaven can punish people with thunder and lightning, it can also use thunder and lightning to kill those incompetent kings. None of them were killed by lightning.Empress Lu cut off Madam Qi's hand, gouged out her eyes, and locked her in the toilet as a "human pig". It is a small fault, but it is punished with thunder and lightning. How absurd is God's work!

In addition, there are many similar sayings, such as the weather is warm when the monarch is happy, and the weather is cold when the monarch is angry; The rain falls; Jin Jinggong wears mourning clothes and mourns the landslide, and the Yellow River was blocked for three days, so the river flows; Wang Chong insisted on refuting them one by one with the materialist view of the way of heaven, nature and inaction.He pointed out that cold and temperature are the solar terms of heaven and earth. Spring is warm and summer is hot, autumn is cool and winter is cold, and the four seasons are naturally like this.The emergence of floods and droughts has its own certain cycle.Regardless of city, rain, frost, or water, they are all ignorant, and their changes have their own laws, and they will never be changed by people's subjective feelings.For example, he said that the melon and fruit are in front of you, one foot away from your mouth, and you can't eat it just by your heart and without using your hands.Water and fire are in front, and weeping alone cannot pass water to extinguish the fire.He asked, when the monarch is happy and angry, even the temperature in his own body and the temperature in the house are not affected in the slightest, how can he affect the temperature in the whole country?He also explained with scientific knowledge that the blocking of the river was caused by the accumulation of earth and rocks just after the mountain collapsed.Three days later, the river flowed because more and more water was blocked, while the earth and rocks gradually loosened and collapsed. It had nothing to do with Jin Jinggong's crying.The millet falling from the sky is because the ripe millet fell to the ground and was blown into the sky by the storm, and then fell again after the wind calmed down.

Wang Chong pointed out with certainty that, even if there are such truths circulating in the society, they are nothing more than accidental coincidences between human actions and changes in nature, and have nothing to do with people's sincerity, let alone What is the deliberate arrangement of the gods.