Western culture believes that people have original sin. The heart is dark. Many people experienced the "Cultural Revolution". Where is the darkest thing? The darkest thing is in people's hearts. Everyone has a dirty side in his heart. Western culture reveals and shows this. Criticize it and control it. Oriental culture is to wrap it up and raise it. Western churches have confessional rooms. After I entered the church, I told God what I thought. Tell God the ugly and dirty things, and he will be relaxed. His mind was purified. Outside the American church, there is an interesting scene: people always go in with a sad face and come out with a relaxed face. Over time, he became a healthy person with a particularly sound mind and soul. People have desires. But if people want to control their own desires, they must control their own desires (not others'). China people won't restrain themselves and torture themselves mentally, so they will restrain others and torture them. It is painful to whip and torture yourself. Only when you always have faith in your heart and have confidence in the eternal God can you do this. Many people have been to churches in the west, where the gods appear in the image of bloody suffering. Jesus was crucified. The virgin is either bleeding or crying. That is actually the embodiment of human beings, the embodiment of human suffering and thoughts. The gods in western religions seem to be gods, but they are actually people. The death of Jesus has completed his transformation from God to man. Only people will die.
And the temple god in China is God. Look at the images of those gods: paunchy, carefree, grinning and enjoying fireworks. Everyone is full of intestines. Westerners go to church to confess. China people pay bribes in temples. Isn't it? Because I want to achieve something, I pray to God, buy incense with money, or put on offerings that we can eat on earth, such as melons and fruits, and make a silent wish. This is not a bribe. What is this? Westerners go to church to get rid of mental pain. People in China go to temples to solve the sufferings in real life. The gods of western religions are suffering, but the people are not. The gods of eastern religions are enjoying themselves, while the people are suffering. This is the biggest difference between eastern and western religions.
Western churches are always built in the city center, close to the people. China's temples are always built in deep mountains and forests, alienated from the people.
China people are basically a nation without faith. Without faith, there is no form without faith. On the contrary, people in China believe in the most miscellaneous things, including Qigong masters. Believe everything, but believe nothing. There is no eternal God in the hearts of China people. Furthermore, there is no ultimate pursuit of cultural spirit! Such people don't extend their care to families or even individuals. If it spreads, it must be hurting people.
In western countries, when a car breaks down on the expressway, almost all cars will stop and ask if you need help. In China, most cars will drive away, so I finally stopped to ask you. I even think, what are you doing? What's your purpose? A drop of water is very small, but it can really contain the whole sun.
For thousands of years, in the competition between the East and the West, the West has won; In the competition between eastern religions and western religions, western religions won. What is the victory of religion? I think it's a spiritual victory.
Without faith, there is no spiritual strength. What China people lack is what westerners have. According to the evolutionary history, the spirit of the Chinese nation will be assimilated by the west one day, otherwise it will be self-destructive.
This is an article I reprinted about how China and the West speculate on the future of the nation from a cultural perspective, and I would like to share it with you.