Christianity in the West is a mysterious existence. It is truly incredible that the set of "red tapes" in the election of the Pope can still exist in the current "short-and-simple" society.
What's even more incredible is that "this matter" has affected the nerves of thousands of people.
Is faith really so powerful?
Perhaps this is the confusion for those who have never experienced the power of faith.
In the bits and pieces of information, we can also know that the church is not a "pure" existence.
In the last century, the power of the Pope was astonishing. The emperors of those countries in Europe said nothing, the Pope was the supreme existence.
No one is innocent in the face of power, and neither is the church.
As the supreme leader of the church, is the Pope himself innocent?
If the Pope is innocent, is the innocence of the subordinate churches directly related to the Pope's management?
These are questions that Anthony Hopkins can't answer.
However, as the Pope, he faced the "contest" between religion and technology, and the decline of religion has no way out.
He's trying to make a change.
The achievements he made during his tenure, after all, are too far away for us to know. But in the story alone, the changes Anthony Hopkins made are admirable enough, even if he was still slightly conservative.
First, in the face of the supreme power of the Pope, it is not easy for him to retreat bravely. You must know that too many people dream of holding power in their hands for life, and this one, who can clearly hold power in his hands for life, chose to give up. This is not a show of Emperor Qianlong.
Second, no matter how "political differences" between himself and his successor, he still chose his successor. If you choose a successor that is "opposite" to yourself, are you not afraid of completely emptying yourself after your succession comes to power? These "conspiracy theories" are completely villain-like worries, or their own reluctance to give up power, so they are so worried.
Facing the invasion of technology, religion is indeed declining.
The "god" of the past has no "appeal" anymore, and religion needs to be changed.
If we go back to the source, the original intention of religion is probably not to rely on "gods" to rule. In that "dark" era, people who are exhausted need a "god" to satisfy their spiritual comfort.
But now, there are so many things in our hearts that can be "filled", and we are bombarded by these things in turn, and we probably forget who we were at the time.
Religion itself gives us a belief. Those who have faith can probably keep their minds clear, keep their original intentions in the complicated world, and never forget their original intentions.
The ultimate origin of human beings is probably still thinking about why people are human, rather than being swayed by more and more rules and forgetting what they should be like at the beginning.
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