This pastor is proficient in doctrine, honest and diligent, willing to help others, and carefully manages the affairs of the parish. Sensitive and thoughtful, afflicted with chronic illnesses, suffering both physically and mentally, he had to resort to alcohol to aid food and anesthetize his spirit, and alcoholism was a taboo for clergymen, so they were despised by the parish masses and had no prestige. I had a long talk with the desperate countess, trying to make her abandon cynicism and bravely accept and change her life. Unexpectedly, the latter went straight to extreme nihilism and cut herself off to see God. The crowd is seen as the culprit. In the end, stomach cancer was found, and all thoughts were lost. The moment of death was accompanied by severe pain in the body, but the soul felt relieved: all is grace.
This young village priest of Bresson can be said to be in sharp contrast with Borgman Fanny and the bishop of Alexandria. He is proficient in morality and politics, good at manipulating power, sanctimonious, and widely admired, but in fact, he is extremely hypocritical and shameless. Coupled with deep cultivation skills and meticulous debate, he is a demon that is almost too powerful to defeat. The former, sincere and kind, can be described as a public servant of the people who does not benefit themselves and others, and belongs to the way of being bullied by others; the diary from beginning to end is a never-ending examination and reflection on one's own soul, which can be described as a kind of real bravery And the truth, the bishop does not dare to face the true self. However, he could only be a lowly village minister all his life, and he was later dismissed from the post, which is sad and deplorable to the world. Throughout the ages, similar stories of people like him that the rules of power could not tolerate have never stopped.
The pastor finally realized: all is grace. Some people will be puzzled. Why should he be grateful for God's gift and be fooled by God and hate God? From another point of view, if God did not give us life, we would never even know what happiness and pain are like, and it is impossible to have only happiness without pain in life, and in that way, the two will also lose their respective meaning. Whatever life is about, life itself is still to be grateful for. However, this statement may be sneering in real life.
From the perspective of reflecting on the humanistic spirit and even humanism of Christianity, village priests are undoubtedly the victims of religion, and they do not regret it until death. The devout and virtuous were not allowed to die well and were excluded from religious power struggles.
Rather than saying that the pastor finally realized the true meaning of Christian love and tolerance, it is better to say that he was completely overwhelmed by life. Pain, on the one hand, inlaid a noble phantom-like gold border on his humble and unfortunate life journey, making it more valuable.
His character is good, but psychologically it cannot be said that he is not sick. He loves God who kills his spirit and in turn kills his body, a classic masochism. His journey is like the way of Jesus, and it seems to be a sacrifice to save the sins of the people. However, what is interesting is that there is no evidence to prove that Jesus was nailed to the cross to save the world... 1 In the beginning, it was imagined by the religious people themselves. They were so moved by this imagination that they believed it to be the truth and preached to the people the greatness of Jesus - needless to say, the pastor must have believed it. So, he was first and foremost a paranoid before he became a masochist. Not wanting to condemn him, I sympathize with him. The (mistaken) scene of riding a motorcycle with the officer boy, how beautiful, if he was not a Christian, he would probably grow up to be as healthy and active as the officer, strong-willed, able to read the cruel rules of this world and be able to Faced with it, there is no need for false Christianity to prop up his spirit. For the pastor's weak and sensitive disposition, the infiltration of Christianity does not know how much responsibility he has to bear. The doctrine of fraternity and peace in Christian teachings violates the law of natural selection, favors the weak, and oppresses the strong; the representative of its ideal personality, Jesus, is an idiot who is submissive, weak, and not very smart... (More , how many paranoid and ambitious mongers kill innocent people indiscriminately in the name of religion, madly fanning the face of love and peace...) For another example, in principle, Christians do nothing wrong in this world in order to go to heaven. However, this kind of thinking is to disrespect life, despise the meaning of life, and yearn for nothingness. It is positive and negative on the surface, optimistic and pessimistic on the surface, and it is a manifestation of lack of will and lingering. At this point, the pastor who believes that heaven does not exist is still very sober. In short, Nietzsche and many thinkers before him have said all the disgusting things about Christianity in great detail. Such a religion will make many people sick. If it makes people happy, it's also a hallucination in high fever... So the Countess would say that she prefers to be in a place without God, and the priest agrees.
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