You can keep your faith, but you must respect those who show their faith in their lives

Watching "The Suffering" was a weekend gathering at a friend's house to watch it. After watching the film with a bunch of beauties, the party felt as if he had suffered a hard time, and it also sparked a big discussion about religion. Apart from reading the comparison between Chinese and Western cultures when I was tutoring Korean students about Chinese culture, I had a little understanding of the concepts of Western religions. My understanding of Christianity was limited to the "Illustrated Bible" that I borrowed from the library in Xiaocheng in junior high school... As I feel that I have no right to speak without investigation, I did not participate in everyone's discussion. After reading "Reading the History of the World in One Breath" written by German scholar Manfred Mai in the past two days, and last year I watched Master Qingkong's work. I was inspired by the masterpiece "Harmony Rescue Crisis", and many things seemed to work out, so I quickly wrote down these thoughts.

Core contrast between Eastern and Western religions: Eastern religions mentioned here include Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism and Chinese Confucian culture; Western religions include all denominations that believe in Jesus and the Virgin Mary, mainly Christianity. If I sum it up in an ancient Chinese language, I think that the core of Western culture is to "go to a higher level", while the core of the East believes that "the height is too cold". Western culture pursues the ultimate in everything, and everything must pursue faster, higher, stronger! (Yes, the Olympics are a typical representative of Western-style thinking.) But the ancient Fuxi family told them tens of thousands of years ago that they had spent dozens of generations observing everything in the world and came to the conclusion in sixteen words: too much is too much, and the extreme will be reversed. The alternation of yin and yang, one grows and the other grows. Western religions, like the pursuit of the ultimate, the crucifixion of Jesus is also an extremely tragic way of preaching. Western poetry is passionate and unrestrained, and Western traditional love stories are not vigorous? In the East, everything is implicit and unspoken. It's not that our ancestors were sullen in their bones, or that their deep understanding of "things must be reversed" has been integrated into our blood.

In this film, Jesus is a man of flesh and blood, a clever carpenter, and a preacher who is obsessed with his own beliefs. Director Mel Gibson is a devout believer, and he does a good job of restoring the humanity of Jesus' deity. Compared with the subversive "Green Goblin version" of Jesus in "The Last Temptation of Christ", religious people are undoubtedly more able to accept the Jesus in "The Passion". I like the line Jesus said to the Virgin Mary in this film: "Look at mother, I am renewing everything!" The way of tragic decision may really touch people who are tortured in the daily trivial matters of firewood, rice, oil and salt. soul.

I have come into contact with some Christians, and I still have reservations about their slightly compulsive way of preaching, but after seeing the breath-taking torture scenes in "The Passion", I seem to have a deep understanding of Christianity. The biggest inspiration is just one sentence: you can keep your beliefs, but you cannot but respect those who show their beliefs with their lives.

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