usatvline Chapter 543 Improvement
Chapter 543 Improvement
One day later
Howard at his residence
Judging by the timeline, today should be the day when Christina and Osarino exchange their belongings. Although the idea was conceived by the three of them together, he was technically an unrelated person, so he did not participate in the handover ceremony.
With nothing else to do, Howard continued reading the book Freya had given him.
However, this time, as Howard took out the book, he glanced at the author's name:
Kaziri Saul
Judging from her appearance, she is a female bishop.
Through his intermittent reading over this period, Howard seems to have come to understand what Katziri wanted to express in this book.
In short, it can be summarized as: religious reform.
This bishop named Cazili held rather radical views. She believed that the emperor possessed absolute divinity, but the state church itself did not worship absolute divinity, nor did absolute divinity require worship. The state church worshipped a god they had fabricated and then imposed this god upon the emperor.
To put it simply, the state religion does not actually worship the emperor, but rather the symbol of the "god" that the emperor represents.
The state religion first worships God and then gives God meaning, rather than worshipping God only after God has an existing meaning.
However, in the present material universe, the emperor has occupied the ecological niche of "god". The original state religion members were unable to create a new religious idol that could rival the emperor, so they merged their own image of "god" with that of the emperor.
If the person sitting on the golden throne is not the emperor, but as long as this new being can still represent the symbol of "god," the state religion will continue to worship that new god according to the old doctrines, rather than following the emperor himself away.
Based on this theory, Cazili elaborated on the process of the alienation and degeneration of the state religion. Initially, the leaders of the state religion may have had good intentions, hoping that people would have a psychological anchor. Therefore, in the name of the "Emperor", they promulgated the gospel of the "God" they worshipped, which played a positive role in the early days of the empire.
However, as the state religion grew and faith brought enormous benefits, some bishops and even cardinals began to degenerate. They began to distort doctrines or create new gospels, but their motivation was no longer to maintain the stability of the empire, but to seek greater power and benefits for themselves.
These new "gospels" or "admonitions" may have seriously violated the emperor's original intentions.
Finally, there was Cazili's reformist aim: she advocated for the separation of church and state and the complete removal of the state religion's military and political power from the imperial administrative system.
She went even further, advocating the separation of the emperor and the "god" of the state religion. From then on, the emperor was the emperor, and the "god" needed by the state religion was the "god" of the state religion.
In her view, the early state religion was weak, so it needed the emperor as a deity to promote the doctrines that they had come up with that were beneficial to mankind. But the state religion would only become more and more corrupt, and it would be a better choice for both sides to separate as soon as possible.
Howard glanced at the release date:
M年
The emperor ascended the golden throne in year M.
This book was written more than six thousand years after the emperors ascended the golden throne.
It is now the 42nd millennium of the Milky Way, and this book is about six thousand years older than the present.
Howard closed the book.
After reading it, he actually found it quite interesting. At first glance, he thought it was just another book that would praise the greatness of emperors and the dedication and piety of mankind. He didn't expect the content to be so exciting.
Howard found many of the book’s points to be very reasonable. From the perspective of a transmigrator, this native of the Warhammer world had actually managed to get a little bit of a way to improve the Empire.
However, Howard was also very clear that Kaziri's efforts ultimately failed because Howard could not find any person in his memory whose name or surname was related to her.
Moreover, just as she predicted, the empire and state religion have now degenerated and fallen into irreversible decay.
If her reform ideas had succeeded, or at least partially succeeded, the empire and the state religion wouldn't be in this mess.
So it's not surprising that Freya collected this book. The content of this book was considered extremely radical on 36k, but on 42k now, the author would probably be labeled a heretic, tried and executed, and the book would be banned, with no original copies ever leaking out.
Xu Fuleiya saw this point, which is why she chose to collect it.
She handed this book to me, perhaps hoping that its contents would influence me?
If Howard were a native youth raised by the State Religion, he might indeed be swayed, but he is a transmigrator. He already knew about the drawbacks of the State Religion, and even felt that the book downplayed them, so it was useless to him.
The root cause is that while the state religion is wrong, humanity today cannot even produce an organization to replace it. If the state religion is abolished and no one can fill its ecological niche, then what follows will not be wrong, but madness and war.
This program relies on bugs to run. Do not modify the bugs unless you can rebuild it from the root.
"Zizi-"
Suddenly, an electric shock came from beside Howard.
Without even looking at Howard, he knew that the Emperor must have come to visit him again.
As the French Empress, she either visits me or wanders around looking for other people like Antonio to play with. Doesn't she need to govern her own dynasty?
“Religious reading.” Hevia glanced at the book Howard had closed and accurately determined its category.
“A spiritual refuge for beings with souls.” She then offered a sharp critique: “Harmful, but necessary, like oxygen.”
“Yes, yes, yes.” Howard nodded, then got out of bed. “Your Majesty, please wait a moment, I’ll go make you some food.”
“I didn’t come to see you about this,” Hevia said.
Howard: "Oh?"
Hevia: "However, if you insist, I'd be happy to accept."
Half an hour later, Haivian sat at the dining table, cutting a jianbing (Chinese crepe) as she spoke:
“We have accepted the human test subjects from the Mackerel. They were instructed to be sent to human laboratories throughout Tessaril. We replaced this group en route, and now they have begun living on the Second Terra.”
Howard: "You've brainwashed them all?"
“Most of them,” Hevia said. “Based on our agreement, everyone knew they would be brainwashed, and they all agreed. However, to maintain stability, we selected some capable humans to help us manage this new civilization.”
As she spoke, Hevia played a video recording of Constantine standing in front of a wooden bank, presiding over its opening ceremony.
“Your friend is one of them; she’s perfect for this job,” Hevia said.
Howard: "Are there banks on the second Terra now?"
“You seem to have forgotten that we don’t start civilization from the primitive era,” Hevian said. “This time, when we restarted civilization, we set the level of civilization to the eve of the invention of the steam engine, and we sped up time.”
Hevia: "For example, from the time I came to find you until now, half a year has passed on the Second Terra. Now humans have left their original habitats and colonized other areas. If they fail to achieve a technological breakthrough, after today, the first batch of humans will all grow old and die. Please rest assured, most of them have lived a peaceful and prosperous life, and their descendants will be the same."