Chapter 115: [Missionary Engineering]

After listening to this "Return to Heaven Theory", I kept thinking about it on rainy days, and my heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

There is no doubt that this setting makes up for a serious shortcoming of the Oracle religion - ultimate care.

In the system of the Oracle religion, the world view, values ​​and everything else are very complete, except for the lack of ultimate concern, or concern about death.

This makes the Spiritual Oracle Church seem like something other than a religion, at least not the kind of religion that most people think of.

When a person is about to die, the Christian priest talks about heaven, the Buddhist monk talks about the Pure Land in the West...but the shaman of the spiritual religion can only say that the person is gone when he dies. Is this reasonable?

Now, the Oracle religion also has the theory of ultimate care, and it is a theory that can connect reality and science.

Rainy Day couldn't help but sigh: "Such a vision is so fascinating. If there is mathematical proof, I think many people will be willing to convert to us. Even the Oracle Church may become one of the largest religions in the world."

Ma Shao said: "I hope there will be no other. This should be the long-term goal of the Lingyu Church. Religion must be exclusive. A religion without exclusivity is doomed to fail. Since we have chosen this path, we must keep going on it."

He has figured it out.

Isn't religious victory also a kind of victory?

Moreover, this kind of victory may be more likely to produce a multiplier effect. It is difficult for a small country to rule the material world, but it is possible for the spiritual world.

For example, the Vatican, although it does not have a few divisions or even a few platoons, still rules the spiritual world of hundreds of millions of believers like the Celestial Empire... To some extent, this can be regarded as a kind of entry into the pass.

If the Oracle Church can achieve religious entry and create a glorious kingdom of God in the spiritual world of all mankind, hundreds of thousands of Indians or at least tens of thousands of Apaches will not have to worry about the disaster of destruction.

Of course, if the strict and sharp core of the Oracle religion really develops to the level of religious victory, the impact it produces will definitely not be limited to this.

Rainy Day was excited about this goal: "Yes, we should spread the oracle to the whole world. Compared with those ancient religions, this is a richer and more self-consistent system, and its theory is perfect."

Ma Shao nodded: "We still need some engineering technology."

"Engineering technology?"

"Missionary engineering." Ma Shao paused for a word, "We should develop missionary work as an engineering discipline, studying and utilizing the laws of information dissemination and the laws of human psychology."

To put it bluntly, this is actually the application of knowledge such as psychology, communication, and education to missionary work.

However, the first two disciplines did not exist at that time, so "missionary engineering" can be said to be a new school of thought, and in the future at least these two important new disciplines can be differentiated.

As a first-class high school teacher, Ma Shao has some knowledge of psychology and communication. He is also a serious professional in education and can fully guide the shamans in their exploration.

At least psychology would have been born in the nineteenth century, and under his guidance, missionary engineering would have inevitably replaced the earlier psychology.

From now on, the father of psychology and the pioneer of communication will all be shamans of the Oracle religion.

Developing missionary work into a legitimate engineering discipline, perhaps only the Oracle Church would dare to do such a thing.

After all, apart from the Oracle, there is no other religious scripture that is so highly compatible with science.

It shouldn't even be called highly compatible, but rather advanced compatible. Ma Shao buried all the cutting-edge scientific knowledge he knew in this religion and built a fairly complete system.

In the history he could foresee, the relationship between science and Oracles would be like that of the most compatible lovers, fitting in perfectly and becoming closer day by day.

Other religions can only desperately cling to science and spread rumors such as scientists having great enlightenment and converting to their religions, while spiritualism can even guide the development of science.

"Create a discipline?" Rainy Day had no idea. "How to do it?"

"Of course, we start with experiments," said Ma Shao. "We ask the shamans to record all the phenomena and problems encountered during the missionary work, and then communicate with each other, summarize their experiences, and find out the laws."

"This will be one of your jobs after this pandemic is over."

Rainy day was obviously a little unconfident: "I'll try."

Ma Shao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Relax, creating a discipline is not as difficult as you think. As long as you master the basic scientific methods, you can create any discipline, such as... juggling."

"Juggling, haha." Rainy Day couldn't help but laugh. It sounded a little funny. But in fact, there was indeed a great scientist who placed his doctorate in juggling in the most prominent place in his home, but this was in the 20th century.

Ma Shao: "Perhaps juggling is indeed a bit different, but missionary engineering is definitely a discipline with huge potential. It is like a brand new fertile soil. With a little plowing, it can produce a lot."

Time gradually came to March.

The epidemic in Mianxiong City has been fully controlled, with almost no new infections. As patients recover or recover on their own, fewer and fewer people live in the quarantine area.

At the same time, the Apache Arsenal completed the order from Santa Fe and produced 1,500 new pistols.

Ma Shao then found Du Tiao and Lao Lu and arranged for them to go to Santa Fe to deliver the goods.

To be on the safe side, the two men still brought more than a hundred soldiers, otherwise it would be dangerous if they encountered a military attack or something.

There will be basically no danger for more than a hundred well-trained soldiers as long as they don't take the initiative to cause trouble.

After all, in North America today, even the highest-level generals often have troops under their command of only a few thousand people.

For example, Santa Fe, as the capital of a state, has less than a thousand regular troops under the command of Colonel Archuleta, the highest military commander. Moreover, many of these thousand people are still using Brown Beth. Ma Shao even thinks that if the cost is not taken, Sleeping Bear City may be able to take down Santa Fe.

Including in the Mexican-American War that was about to break out, "big battles" involving thousands or even hundreds of people were common.

As a Chinese, Ma Shao still feels strange about the scale of this war.

The two countries have a combined territorial area of ​​tens of millions square kilometers, and when a war breaks out, it only involves hundreds or thousands of people.

It's really not involutionary.

Therefore, as long as we take these soldiers with us, they alone will be enough to ensure safety. It is hard to say at normal times, but at this juncture, both the United States and Mexico do not want to have an additional enemy for nothing. More than a hundred soldiers are enough to make them restrain all their unfriendly thoughts.

The team set off southwest with the goods.

What Ma Shao didn't expect was that on the night when Du Tiao and his companions left Mianxiong City, he learned a piece of news that surprised him greatly.

"Great Chief, Owl wants to see you." Blind Shot came to the Chief's Hall.

"Owl?" Ma Shao frowned slightly, "What's the matter with him?"

Blind Shot shook his head: "I don't know, but he said it's very important and he has to talk to you in person."

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