Although many people in later generations will think that the Roman Empire was great and prosperous, in fact it is not wrong.
However, only a small number of "citizens" can share this wealth.
What kind of people did the first Christians come from?
The poorest man in Rome.
Freedmen who lived in the cities, bankrupt people from all walks of life, or newly freed slaves. Slaves from various large estates, small farmers in the fields who were increasingly trapped in debt bondage.
For all of them there is absolutely no common path to liberation. For all of them paradise is gone; the paradise of bankrupt free men in which their forefathers were free citizens.
The city-state of the past was both a city and a country; the paradise of captive-war slaves was the free era before they were captured and became slaves; the paradise of small farmers was the eradicated clan system and public ownership of land.
Therefore, under the circumstances at that time, the only way out was in the field of religion.
The theologian opened a gap leading to dreams in the depressing world.
Another world opened. The continued existence of the soul after death gradually became a recognized creed in Rome all over the world. The belief that the soul after death will receive some kind of reward or punishment for its actions during life is also becoming more and more popular among everyone.
Accepted. But the reward is quite unreliable; the ancient world had a strong spontaneous materialism, which regarded life on earth as much more precious than life in the underworld; the Greeks regarded eternal life after death as a kind of misfortune.
Compared with the original "just world", the "settlement after death" is simply overwhelmingly powerful. In the spiritual field, it has the epoch-making significance of a nuclear weapon - in layman's terms, it is a spiritual atomic bomb.
"Death" is no longer simple, nor is it the end. Therefore, human beings can finally overcome a little bit of the fear of death and gain a little bit of fear.
This mechanism, which cannot be proven or falsified by humans, has become a "fair" patch.
In the imaginary world, a reliable third-party monitor appears.
As a result, people in the world - those who have nothing, find someone they can love, and they also gain the love of others.
God guarantees this love.
The doctrine of "love your neighbor" and the comment "He who has mercy on his neighbor" unite people who have nothing.
For the people of the Empire who worship all gods, believing in a sect of one god is equivalent to "atheism". This is a sin.
The empire's malice did not destroy the love of the people at the bottom for each other.
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--like?
--like?
Yuki sincerely doubted whether he had read the wrong book.
What is "love"? Does he really know the word?
Is it possible that the Six Dragons Sect relies on "love" to unite themselves?
Those Six Dragon Sect members... really love each other... love each other...
Yuki suddenly thought of Borshu again. Borshu was in pain because he knew that the love from Green Forest was sincere. The power of technology also implanted a deep-rooted love for his compatriots in Green Forest in his consciousness.
In a sense, the green forest is also united by "love".
