All the pastors and parishes in this film refer to the Roman Catholic Church, so the following will be collectively referred to as "priests".
At the end of last year, I was approached by a Russian uncle who loves Laozi and Zhuangzi in the swimming pool of the gym. After chatting about Eastern and Western culture, history and religion, the uncle asked me what I believe in. I said "no". In the 21st century, every time Europeans hear that the other party does not believe in any religion, they will show their friends in amazement. I am also surprised by the Chinese.
Of course the next question is "why". It's as if "believe in a certain religion" is a matter of course, and those who don't believe it is guilty-at least inferior to others-if they don't give a reason to silence the other party.
I am accustomed to this process, of course, I have been prepared for a long time, replied that believing in a certain religion is tucked into a cover. If you believe in this religion, you cannot believe in that religion at the same time. If you want to do anything that is contrary to the doctrine, Thinking about living according to a small manual written by no individual thousands of years ago, this kind of self-limitation is narrow and blind.
If any god uses the fear of doomsday hell and the coercion of church organizations to demand that human beings give up the freedom of thinking, and are just narrow and blind like moths chasing fire, then even if Yi really exists, there is nothing worthy of love and follow. I would rather live this life according to my own will, and then go to hell at the end of judgment.
Uncle was even more shocked, saying that depending on your young age, you can have such a swollen end. Oops.
Uncle, you can't tell, I almost went to be a nun once.
At that time, I was much younger, and I came to a foreign country alone. I had no relatives and inconvenience in communication. I severed my relationship with my biological father and suffered from mild depression. Two times when I walked in the subway, I wanted to sleep on the rails. At this time, God and the parish priest were like the last match in the wind and snow.
In this district, there is a priest who used to preach and speak fluent Chinese in Taiwan. He aimed at new overseas students. He often organized gatherings and invited everyone to taste some homemade honey hand-made cakes. There is no preaching in the meeting, just listening to everyone talk about all kinds of difficulties and provide help from the church.
Catholicism is still very popular in Europe. Finding a lawyer, looking for a house, looking for a job, everything can help.
Gradually you feel owed. Gradually you feel dependent and sustenance. Gradually you find yourself integrated into a community and have a sense of belonging. Gradually you feel that you are compared to the cruel and ugly world outside. The people in the church are indeed the kindest and most beautiful. Gradually being excluded by this group and abandoned by this community becomes your worst nightmare and becomes your last straw.
In those few years, many people who knew each other became religious—not only the Catholic Church, but also wicked churches.
I was really tired at the time, and I really wanted to take out my soul and place it in God from now on, and no longer care about everything in the mortal world. This life is very good and saves a lot of trouble.
Unfortunately, the concubines could not do it. Because I found myself accustomed to looking for omissions between the lines when reading the "Bible", I tried to refute the things that were not pleasing to my eyes. During my wandering in Italy, I did have several conversations with priests. There is no way to be born rebellious.
However, I still think that having faith is better than not having nothing. It's just that some people, such as me, are not suitable for relying on any letter.
It's just that faith and religion are two different things. This Chinese is really very refreshing. Belief is not doubtful, and admiration is awe. They are all personal feelings; sects are sects, religion is inheritance, and they are all group relationships.
Without Roman Catholicism, without any religion, God can exist, and you can believe in religion and worship. However, religions in reality always deliberately reverse the causal relationship, making it look like if you are not in the same group with them, you can't believe in God.
Because in fact, many people believe in religion not for God, but for that religious group.
Any animal that moves in a group is for profit. Religion is an organization whose profit is based on faith. Various religious institutions secretly compete with their followers, and send people from all directions to preach their own religions in order to seek major influence-that is, implicit power.
When a sect gains great power in a region, its followers will be blessed, while other believers will be unlucky. Religion does not stand by God, but stands by man.
Everyone believes in God. Catholicism and Protestantism continue to fight each other, Jews are purged and purged, Muslims scream for jihad, that is, a MLM agency and another MLM agency on the line in order to compete for customers and resources to encourage the downline to fight. Downliners can say no, but downliners will not say no.
Once an individual becomes a community of interests, or even a link in the chain of interests, it enters a hole in the wire, it is difficult to move, and it is difficult to get rid of it from generation to generation.
A colleague who has never been to a church in his entire life (visiting nature is not counted) and does not care about the other half of his faith. Because his parents are both believers, he must bring his atheist fiancée to a baptism before marriage. Follow the Catholic rules and take the baptism after giving birth. Naturally, when asked "what's his faith", he would answer "I am a Catholic" without thinking.
This system is so large and operated for so long and rooted so deeply. If your friends, relatives, parents, uncles, neighbors, or even neighbors’ dogs are downline from this organization, can you still buy a copy?
To turn over such a MLM organization that has operated for a thousand years and offline 100 million yuan, tell the hot-headed members yelling "buy, buy, buy" that it is not enough for one or even dozens of diamonds to go online with money, because people always have this. Fortunately, one of the ten will encounter something, and eleven people think that they will not be the hapless one.
Only by removing the logically inverted thinking that belief is to join a certain religion, members will have a sober day. To achieve this, one cannot use one god to fight another, one organization to bring down another organization, and one kind of incitement to attack another kind of incitement. Otherwise, it will only bring down a pyramid scheme and set up a new one.
The most difficult and expensive of this film is that it did not use Protestantism to overthrow the old one.
Although there was still an explosion scene in which a reporter angered "they are doing this to children", one or two lines such as "to nurture a child need a city, and to abuse a child also need a city" to entice the audience. The three views.
However, the whole film is cold-keyed in the soundtrack and photography and refuses to be sensational; it does not pierce and dramatize the background and life experience of individual victims to provoke sympathy; it does not use one or some characters of the church as the villain (sexual The priests who violated children only appeared by names); the lawyers who did not deliberately vilify serving the church, nor did they heroically romanticize the reporters who followed the matter. It does not intend to reprimand those who are still defending the church, nor does it attempt to preach to the audience.
From the beginning to the end, a cold expression of "this is the fact and the facts are all". The film does not belong to any religious interest groups and becomes an "outsider", countering the church's incitement to believers (for example, this is xxx teaching to steal business, this is the slander of the xxx party) resisting tactics. No desire is just talking about this cold pose. Few movies can be so thorough without desire. One is the problem of courage, the second is the problem of ability and the third is the problem of ambition.
Of course, the indifferent appearance does not mean that the film really has no standpoint. The good germany and the whole film repeatedly appeared "In fact, I told you about these things a long time ago (Boston Globe), but you didn't report it at the time. Why didn't you report it?", like a thorn on a toe, you can't see it clearly. Nothing, but a red and swollen questioning, "However, you are also a part of this system. Why did you choose to be silent at one time?"
For a country with a large religious mass base, this question is like asking the married man above. Colleagues like "Why do you believe in Catholicism?" It must have surprised AIA very much. After being shocked by the righteousness that "human beings should be atheists", he thought about it for dozens of seconds before honestly saying "I don't believe it myself."
Spotlight's continuous reports and this movie are all for those tens of seconds.
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