The Priest and Western Confucianism

Author: Orthodox Khan Ali Buge

The Priest and Western Confucianism

Just like other parts of the Purple Horde, in these places, the church is largely needed to maintain education. Even improving seeds and studying and introducing excellent crops are actually the traditional work of the church.

Zhu Wenkui told Guo Kang that he was very puzzled by this situation. But Guo Kang thought it was normal not to understand - he himself didn't understand at the beginning, but later he understood it in ancient times.

In order to explain this reason to Zhu Wenkui and others, he thought about this issue for a while, and finally decided to use the examples from ancient times.

The church is a religious organization, but in ancient times, historians, wizards, Confucian scholars, and even musicians, these industries about sacrifices, secretaries, rituals, music, etc. were also one.

For example, "Shuowen Jiezi" says that Confucianism means a sorcerer. Since the Shang Dynasty, some people have been responsible for presiding various ceremonies, especially in important occasions of funerals. These master the rules of etiquette and preside over ceremonies for people.

People are called "Confucianism". Later, because they often come into contact with books and understand etiquette culture, the scale of this noun reference has gradually expanded and eventually became synonymous with various scholars.

The same is true in Europe. People who manage religion must preside over ceremonies and sacrifices, and those who are responsible for presiding over these important ritual occasions will also hold other positions. If they want to manage sacrifices, they must have some knowledge and have

The ability to educate and learn. Various etiquette rules also require a large amount of records as support and can be spread and promoted everywhere.

Therefore, the normal development of the church will naturally have these functions.

The only problem is that Europe is relatively backward. Compared with the Central Plains, they are still at the level of the Three Ancient Dynasties.

Fortunately, their organizational capabilities are much better than those of Confucian scholars - or in other words, according to the Central Plains standards, there is not even a normal country with the level of the three ancient dynasties. In contrast to the crackdown on Taoist organizations in previous dynasties, the local regime has no motivation, and

If you do not have the ability, you will prohibit these "Western Confucians" from establishing organizations, and even support their organizations to maintain basic management order. In the end, it will become what they are now.

By deducing from this perspective, you will know why the church has so many additional functions.

Teaching is one of the most basic requirements of Confucian scholars in the Central Plains, and it is also a rare ancestral skill that is out of date in various eras. In Europe... we can't expect those illiterate tribe leaders to teach. Therefore, we set up schools.

Of course, only the church does it.

The same is true for introducing good varieties, selecting and breeding various high-yield grains, cash crops and even bees. In the Central Plains, this is called "persuading agriculture" and is the basic professional requirement of intellectuals in the government. However, as we all know, there is no such level in Europe.

The government...so the relevant industries can only be left to the church to take responsibility.

Similarly, the church is also one of the biggest patrons of music and art. Europeans also have the need for "rituals and music", believing that only the Central Plains people are poor and particular, while Europeans do not pay attention to etiquette levels, and believe that their legs cannot be bent.

Level of misunderstanding.

The one who provides this kind of talent support is naturally the church. Without Confucian scholars, the ministers were just not particular about their behavior; without European kings, there were not only festivals and music in the court, and even those who could calculate were gone.

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As for various ceremonies, including funerals, the church is also in charge. In terms of the importance of funeral ceremonies, the church is the same as the early Confucian scholars.

Even if you directly look at the rituals, music, books, numbers, and one set of churches, you can find that most of the functions overlap. As for the other two, it is not obvious. It is not that the priests do not - many remote places,

They are all extremely dangerous. If you want to preach, you really have martial arts. But the church here can't beat the barbarian tribes, so these things have no sense of existence.

In this way, we can find that the church is actually an ancient witch organization whose functions have not yet been separated. Although knowledge in all aspects has developed and changed, and the current society is no matter how advanced it is than the ancient three dynasties, the secular regime has

The organizational ability is too bad, which leads to the fact that these functions are not even divided. They can only continue to join in groups and squat in the church framework...

After explanation in this way, guests from the East will understand.

In fact, grassroots priests did not only preside over ceremonies, but also often served as teachers, but also often served as the three elders. Even when they rebelled, these people were like the lower-class scholars in the Central Plains, and were core talents. Guo Kang previously suspected that the English had no organization.

Ability, but that is a special case of England, not a common feature of Europe. In Germany and even Eastern Europe, it is very common for priests to lead the rebellion and fight. Now, this situation is brewing, and in the future

There will be endless in a century.

In this way, it is easy to understand why it is just a matter of purchasing raw materials, but the church thinks it can help.

Although the doctrine of the Roman Church, in the eyes of other factions, is a very heretical idea, the most important part of the church is not these doctrines, but its organization.

Wang Da Lama himself understood very well. In the early years, when Guo Kang had just gone to church and tried to get support to conduct research, Wang Da Lama told him.

He told Guo Kang not to care too much about the meaning of the scriptures, just understand those things in a general way. As a child of the war coach and a future leader, he should pay attention to more essential things.

What believers care about is the various public services provided by the church - of course, spiritual services are also very important. But the key point lies in these services themselves. As long as you have a reasonable and self-consistent scripture, you can do it.

Actually, I don’t think too deeply, so I don’t care which scripture you specifically talk about.

The so-called doctrine is actually a common rule that follows. Its greatest function is to establish a common belief across regions and organize people through common theological concepts and ritual rules.

——Like the countries in the Central Plains, they cannot rely on the legitimacy of those barbarian countries, or the barbarian countries, to rely on the church they provide, and this common concept is also needed to maintain the existence of the organization.

Many times, the accumulation of civilization here is far from enough, and I can't come up with the many ways in the Central Plains. There is no way, so I can only continue to work hard on Heavenly Father and Brother Tian...

Even the church hates heresy very much. For them, pagans are the enemies of the clever cards and everyone has already stood up. But heresy will destroy this rare and valuable "common understanding" in Europe.

So even if ordinary people may not understand the difference, the church still needs to attack heretics and strive to discover and eliminate them immediately in the bud. It seems much more sensitive than the colleagues in the Central Plains. In fact, this is also very realistic.

The reason.
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