Chapter 702 "Political Assets" in East Africa
"In 1886, under the heavy attack of the Religious and Cultural Administration, 57 illegal missionary organizations were destroyed, more than 4,000 copies of illegal religious texts were destroyed, and 23 people from 7 overseas illegal forces were arrested. Overall, the country was maintaining the legality of religion. In terms of rights and interests, the effect has been remarkable, maintaining social stability and further consolidating social and ideological stability." John Mendel, director of the Religious and Cultural Administration, reported last year's work report.
"The national mind is ignorant and easily deceived by people with good intentions. However, we cannot blindly erase the ideological sustenance of religious culture on the people at the bottom. Therefore, it is crucial to deal with religious thoughts harmlessly. Anything that is in compliance with the law and basic social moral values , we must support those who are in line with East Africa's loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and anything else is a target of attack." Ernst emphasized.
East Africa has a long history of suppressing religious forces, but according to East African officials, it is naturally a crackdown on "evil cults" and illegal religious organizations.
However, the vitality of religion is stubborn, just like leeks, after one crop is cut, another crop will grow, so it must be severely punished every once in a while.
"The education department has repeatedly stated that no one is allowed to reach out to our 'future' in East Africa. Anyone under the age of seventeen is not allowed to receive religious interference. This is an important foundation for freedom of religious belief in East Africa. At the same time, children in East Africa must be taught the correct Their thoughts and moral concepts give them the ability to distinguish right from wrong."
East Africa is already feudal and conservative, so it naturally cannot tolerate messy ideas to "poison" East African youths. This is also an important task in the implementation of compulsory education.
"So far, 1,308 churches and 143 Taoist temples have been built across the country."
You heard me right. East Africa has liberalized the cultural inheritance of Taoism. This will prevent East African religions from being dominated by one religion. After all, there is no peace of mind if there is only one religion. What if the dispute between the Pope and the King in the Middle Ages in Europe happens? manage? This is a means of differentiation and checks and balances.
For example, the Far Eastern Empire formed a state of checks and balances between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in ancient times. This is also the case in East Africa currently, with Catholicism, Protestantism and Taoism forming a tripartite situation.
However, the differential treatment between the two is also quite obvious, and there is a huge difference in quantity, which plays an important role in stabilizing people's hearts.
At the same time, the development of East African religions has a trend towards the integration of religious monarchy. This is mainly related to Japanese studies. The existence of Japanese emperors is closely linked to the spiritual beliefs of the entire Japanese people.
This "advanced" way of thinking, which has a consolidating significance for the royal authority, is naturally worth learning from the Hechingen royal family, but it is not as "obsessed" and exposed as Japan.
Of course, no matter what religion it is, its teaching materials are officially defined and written by East Africa.
These official-backed religions are strictly restricted in their areas and cannot actively preach to believers. They can only recruit believers by various means.
This crooked approach is closely related to the ruling foundation of the Hechingen royal family. After all, this era is not very particular about "materialist" thinking.
"In short, secularization is the trend of the times, but even under the upsurge of secularization, there are always people who need spiritual sustenance. We cannot deny the existence of this spiritual sustenance. What the government needs are more specious concepts to maintain social stability. Stablize."
Not giving some people an outlet for their thoughts can easily lead to extreme behavior. Of course, blind mental control can also easily lead to extreme behavior. Therefore, the ruling class must grasp the balance between the two and keep the entire East African folk belief in a reasonable state. within the range.
John Mendel: "In recent years of religious and cultural control, we have clearly found that external religious forces have strengthened their penetration into East Africa. In the dozen years before 1880, only three such cases were discovered in total, but only in 1886 We found 13 cases, involving seven religious organizations. These activities are mainly in open coastal cities." East Africa is definitely a blue ocean for many religious forces at present, because the religion in East Africa is actually the royal family of Hechingen. It is a puppet supported by the East African government and is decoupled from the mainstream religious forces in the world.
This naturally arouses dissatisfaction among some forces, but it is impossible to open East Africa to the country unless violent means are used to destroy the solid national defense that East Africa has built over decades.
If hard work is not enough, naturally you can only use soft means. Developing agent believers through coastal open cities is the mainstream model, but they encountered the East African Religious and Cultural Administration. The two sides fought many times overtly and covertly, and in the end they both It ended with the victory of the East African Official Organization.
"We must strictly crack down on such foreign forces, especially Judaism, Arabia, and the Roman Church. This is not the Middle Ages. The rise of nation-states is the general trend. The only path we can take in East Africa is national integration and elimination of internal differences. Only then will we be better." Concentrate on competing with other countries," Ernst said.
The reason why Ernst emphasizes these three is because these three are the fundamentalisms that are least likely to be integrated. They are one level older than the feudal autocracy in East Africa and have remained unchanged from the slave society to modern times.
Of course, it seems that Arabic religion has changed in the past life, but this change has been collectively wiped out by Western society, and Arab religious areas with no way out of industrialization have moved towards retroism.
Of course, this matter is not under East Africa's control now. The world order group represented by Britain and France is the leader. There is no conflict between East Africa and France, but it is very different from Britain.
However, with the stability of East African countries, it is currently impossible for external forces to overthrow the existence of East African countries. They can cause the East African regime to collapse or the country to split. However, the cultural system established in East Africa over the past few decades is no longer possible. This is one of the reasons why East Africa is becoming more and more open to the international community.
To put it simply, no matter how messed up East Africa is, the residue left behind will still have an East African flavor. As long as all the East Africans are not extinct, some people will want to restore this huge empire.
This is the same as the spiritual reshaping of the Chinese nation by the First Emperor of the Far Eastern Empire who completed the unification. Just like the current level of development of the entire East African country is not very high, but it has squeezed into the ranks of great powers by virtue of its size.
East Africa's nation-building has many flaws, but overall it has been completed. The follow-up is nothing more than repairing these flaws. After thorough integration, East Africa will be completely mature.
In fact, East Africa has completed the construction of "Spiritual Rome". East Africa has established a huge empire unprecedented in African history. Even if it is divided in the future, there will be a situation like Europe where Roman orthodoxy is everywhere. The East African Empire has been seeking to leave behind "Political and cultural heritage".
The struggle for hegemony between Germany and France, Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Greece all had their own "Rome" plans, because Rome was an unprecedented large-scale empire in European history, and the establishment and expansion of East Africa was a replica of ancient Rome. .
Unless a country that unifies the entire African continent emerges, East Africa's historical achievements on the African continent will never be surpassed in the future.
This is also the political influence achieved unconsciously in East Africa, and the African political and cultural hegemony gradually established when the Hechingen royal family landed in East Africa.
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