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 volumes of illegal religious texts were destroyed, and illegal overseas religious personnel were arrested. There are 23 people in 7 families. Overall, the country has achieved remarkable results in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of religions, maintaining social stability and further consolidating social and ideological stability." John Mendel, director of the Religious and Cultural Administration, reported on 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 treat religious thoughts harmlessly. We must support those who adhere to the laws and basic moral values of society, and those who are in line with East Africa’s loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and anything else will be targeted,” 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 The ideological and moral concepts give them the ability to distinguish right from wrong.”
East Africa is already feudal and conservative, so it naturally does not tolerate messy thoughts to “poison” the youth of East Africa. This is also an important factor in the implementation of compulsory education. Task.
“So far, 1,308 churches and 143 Taoist temples have been built across the country.”
That’s right, East Africa has liberalized Taoism. Cultural inheritance, this prevents East African religions from being dominated by one religion. After all, it is not reassuring to have only one religion. What if the dispute between the Pope and the King in the European Middle Ages happens? 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. The same is true in East Africa currently. Catholicism, Protestantism and Taoism have become 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.
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.
At the same time, the development of East African religions has a trend towards the integration of religious and royal authority. This is mainly related to Japanese studies. The existence of Japanese Japanese emperors is closely linked to the spiritual beliefs of the entire Japanese people.
This "advanced" way of thinking, which has a significance in consolidating the authority of the royal family, is naturally worthy of learning by the Hechingen royal family, but it is not as "devious" and exposed as Japan.
This crooked approach is closely related to the ruling foundation of the Hechingen royal family. After all, this era does not pay much attention to "materialist" thinking.
“In short, secularization is the development 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 is more specious. The concept of maintaining social stability ”
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, so the ruling class must master two aspects. The balance between them keeps the entire East African folk belief within a reasonable range.
John Mendel: "In terms of religious and cultural control in recent years, we have clearly discovered that external religious forces have strengthened their penetration into East Africa. In the more than ten years before 1880, only three such cases were discovered in total. However, in 1886 alone we found 13 cases, involving seven religious organizations, and these activities were mainly in open coastal cities. "At present, East Africa is definitely a blue ocean for many religious forces, because of the actual religious situation in East Africa. It is a puppet supported by the Hechingen royal family and 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 big mountain of the East African Religious and Cultural Administration. Many encounters ended in victory for 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 Only by internal differences can we better concentrate our efforts to compete 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. They have been in the slave society until modern times. Food remains unchanged.
Of course, it seems that Arabic religion has changed in the past life, but this change has been collectively obliterated by Western society, and Arab religious areas with no way to industrialize 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 collapse of East African regimes or the division of countries, but East Africa has established over the past few decades. It is impossible to overthrow the cultural system, which is one of the reasons why East Africa is becoming more and more open in the international community.
To put it simply, no matter how bad East Africa is messed up, the scum left behind will also have an East African flavor. As long as 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.
There are many flaws in East Africa's ethnic shaping, but on the whole 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 a "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 have their own "Rome" plans, because Rome is an unprecedented large empire in European history, and the establishment and expansion of East Africa is a reflection of ancient times. A replica of 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, the African political and cultural hegemony gradually established when the Hechingen royal family landed in East Africa.
(End of this chapter)