God's Baroque Ticket (02) 上帝的那張芭樂票（02）

God's Baroque Ticket (02)

Author :Kai-Chi Chang

What a brave man! In order to insist the truth, he refused to bow to authority, even sacrificed his life.  However, Bruno and Galileo are in the same era, insisting on the same idea and advocating the same doctrine. The only difference was that Galileo wrote the repenting statement under the Holy See’ despotic power at that time. Galileo promised not to preach his idea to escape the persecution. The hard-core Bruno calmly chose to die unyieldingly. Even after 350 years later, these two are still treated differently. Galileo finally has been rehabilitated, but how about Bruno?

It is hard to imagine the standard of the Holy See, and it is hard to imagine that it is still unfairly treated. Perhaps it is because the Holy See really took Bruno’s hardline attitude to heart and was not able to forgive him. Not like Galileo, the Holy See won’t give him a very later rehabilitation, and intentionally make him full of regret, and never turn over.

Of course, after 350 years, the Holy See has had such a different treatment for Bruno and Galileo. We can see that the Holy See is just not introspective, but even wants to preserve the authority of the Middle Ages. They just follow their own likes and dislikes to assess these scientists. They absolutely do not allow the world to question and challenge theirs actions. It is also the authoritarian style of "going with me, or against me." Only what the Holy See said or did is the truth. All others are heresy, so until the 21st century, the respectable and pathetic Bruno is still a heresy that cannot be rehabilitated. If possible, they may burn Bruno server times more!

As for "salvation," It is similar. Counting from the time Jesus was crucified, ascended to heaven, and returned to God, it is about two thousand years.  Jesus and his father, God, had long enough to stay together, did they? Even they are planning the so-called "global people's overall redemption plan", is the time long enough? But why didn't there be any actual action?

Think about it. Since the redemption is what they promised to humanity, how many Catholics and Christians have been convinced of God and Jesus over the past two thousand years? How many devout believers are suffering from hunger, plague, natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars, political persecution, and so on, even before they are about to lose their lives, they are so eagerly awaiting the redemption from God. Did they eventually get?

No! Not only not at the time, but also not for now?

Look at the six million Jews who died in the Nazi concentration camp in modern times, the plague that killed one-third of the population to the medieval European Black Death, and the millions of people died under holocaust of the former Soviet Union’s Stalin era, so many souls have been smeared in the past two thousand years. How many families have broken, how many of them are absolutely convinced and longing for God's redemption?

What is the result?

No redemption! Humans have waited for thousands of years, but what they are waiting for is a baroque ticket that will never be fulfilled.

This check has not been honored in the past. It cannot be cashed now. What about the future? Of course, it will not be honored!

So, instead of passively waiting, is it better to rely on ourselves?

Only by being self-reliant and self-defensive, practicing "self-protecting yourself" and "human problems are solved by human beings ourselves" is the most practical and correct outlook on life. It is the fool’s idea and the behavior of a coward to blame one's own suffering or human incompetence on the God that does not exist at all. This kind of person leads a life of vain and it is meaningless.

One third of the European population died of the Black Death. What is God's redemption? Are those who are dead are sinful villains? For thousands of years, what is the "savior" that Judaism, Christianity, and Catholicism expect?

The answer is that there is no "God's redemption" and there is no "savior". It is not just a deliberate deception fabricated by religion, but most human beings are also used to indulging in self-deception.

上帝的那張芭樂票（02）

作者:張開基

好一個不肯向威權低頭，為了維護真理，不惜以身相殉的勇者，但是，布魯諾和伽利略是同一時代，堅持了相同理念，主張相同的學說，差別只在伽利略迫於當時教廷的淫威，勉強寫下切結書，不再宣揚，因此委曲求全而逃過一劫，而死硬派的布魯諾卻是選擇了寧死不屈，從容就義，但是，為什麼三百五十年之後，兩人還是受到不同的待遇，伽利略的冤屈終於得到平反，而布魯諾卻沒有呢？

我們很難想像教廷的處事標準，也很難想像這樣依然不公平的對待，或許是因為三百五十年來，羅馬教廷對布魯諾的死硬派態度仍然耿耿於懷，仍然非常不能原諒，所以也就不肯像對待伽利略的處理方式一樣，給他一個非常遲來的「平反」，非要讓他含恨以終，並且永世不得翻身吧？

當然，從三百五十年之後，教廷對布魯諾和伽利略竟然有這麼不同的待遇，我們可以看出教廷不只是沒有什麼自省能力，甚至仍然想保有中古世紀的威權，他們只是依照自身的喜惡來評定古人，他們的任何作為是絕對不容許世人質疑和挑戰的，一樣還是那種「順我者昌，逆我者亡」的威權統治作風，只有羅馬教廷說的，做的才是真理，其他統統都是異端邪說，所以直到廿一世紀的今天，可敬又可憐的布魯諾依然是不能翻身平反的異端邪說，如果可能，只怕還要再放火燒死個幾次吧？

至於「救贖」也一樣，遠的不說，就算從耶穌被釘在十字架上，死後昇天，回到上帝的身邊開始計算，將近二千年了，耶穌和他老爸上帝敘舊也敘的夠久了吧？就算研究所謂的「地球子民整體救贖計劃」也計劃的夠周詳了吧？但是為什麼遲遲沒有任何實際的行動呢？

想想；「救贖」既然是他們親口向人類承諾過的，這二千年來，有多少天主教、基督教徒對上帝和耶穌是深信不疑的？又有多少虔誠的信徒在遭到饑餓、瘟疫，天災、人禍，戰亂、政治迫害等等慘痛的遭遇，甚而因之即將要失去生命之前的瞬間，他們如此殷殷的期盼著來自上帝的救贖時，他們等到了嗎？

沒有！不只是當時沒有，現在也還沒有？

再看看從竟然能奪走三分之一的人口中世紀歐洲黑死病之類的大瘟疫到近代死於納粹集中營中的六百萬猶太人，在前蘇聯史達林統治中，上千萬死於大屠殺的人民等等，這二千年來有多少生靈的塗炭，有多少家庭的破碎，他們之中有多少是絕對相信並且渴望上帝的救贖的？

結果呢？

沒有任何的救贖？

人類等了幾千年，所等到的卻是一張永遠不會兌現的芭樂票！

這張支票，過去不曾兌現，現在不能兌現，未來嘛？當然還是不會兌現的？

所以，與其繼續枯等，還是靠自己比較好吧？

只有自立自強，實踐「自己保護自己」、「人類的問題由人類自己解決」，才是最實際，最正確的人生觀。

把自己的苦難或者人類的疑難雜症推托給根本不存在的「上帝」，那是蠢蛋的想法和懦夫的行為，這種人活著也是白白虛度原本有所作為的一生。

1／3的歐洲人口死於黑死病，上帝的救贖何在？難道那些死亡者都是罪不可赦的惡棍？幾千年來，猶太教、基督教、天主教期待的「救世主」在那裡？