Chapter 50 Theology Authority and Order

Theology, as the name implies, is a doctrine related to God, or the rationality of God.

For us who live in the materialistic world, such a doctrine seems unreal because no God has ever revealed His existence to us.

So for us, theology is not so much a doctrine related to God as it is a doctrine about the origin of our fear of the unknown and the need for faith as we move from ignorance to rationality.

But this is different for Calvin who is now in the other side. In the world he is in now, God has been proven to be real.

Unlike the awe of God that he used to disdain when he was in the army, in his current environment, respecting God is no longer common sense.

Materialism teaches us that our disbelief in the existence of God does not fundamentally deny the rationality of His existence, but because we have indeed not seen any traces of Him or their existence.

The situation that Calvin is facing now is that when a god or multiple gods have actually appeared, and when the human race challenged its peak twice, they were hit head-on by these high gods.

Then there is no doubt about the debate about whether gods exist. Looking at the history of mankind:

When challenging the peak for the first time, the golden age of mankind was dominated by technology and refused any transformation of themselves. The golden humans at their peak were said to have ruled the entire galaxy, and even time became a tool in their hands. But they still fell in the huge subspace storm on the eve of the entire race's upgrade.

When challenging the peak for the second time, the Emperor led the entire human empire. Under the leadership of the Emperor, they no longer blindly believed in science, but chose to stay away from the subspace. Under the circumstance that most people, including the Primarchs, had never known about the Warp, the Emperor led them to launch a grand expedition to the Milky Way to recover the lost territory; on the other hand, a network technology that could completely get rid of the Warp technology and independently support transportation and communication in the Empire's territory also made surprising progress under the Emperor's highly confidential research and development.

Everything seemed to be going well, but mankind still could not escape the fate of failure.

Soon, another Warp storm that appeared at the end of the Great Crusade and swept across the entire galaxy caused the Empire at its peak to completely lose control and protection of billions of people in its territory in a short period of time.

And the Chaos Apostles headed by Erebus, under the careful arrangement of the Warp Gods, step by step approached the Emperor's most beloved child. The child who was closest to the Emperor himself in both civil and military skills among the 19 demigod-like Primarchs.

He was also the actual helmsman of the Empire's huge armed forces after the Emperor himself returned to Terra to preside over the Webway Project in the late Great Crusade: the Supreme Warmaster who could nominally command and dominate all 18 legions participating in the Great Crusade: Horus Lupercal.

It was also after this Warmaster, who lost the Emperor's blessing and was surrounded and framed by many conspiracies, failed to escape the corruption of the Chaos Gods from the Warp, that he launched the huge rebellion that caused the entire Empire to fall from its peak and failed to recover its national strength after ten thousand years.

This battle ended with a tragic victory for the Human Empire, and Horus was crushed by the Emperor's sword. But the Emperor also lost the possibility of walking in the Empire from then on. Under severe injuries, he could only sit on the famous Golden Throne for a long time.

The Empire, which lost the rule of the Supreme Monarch, took a sharp turn for the worse from its peak. Afterwards, the Empire, which had not yet recovered, experienced the Beast War, the Age of Apostasy, the Dark Crusade, and other continuous attacks from orcs or the gods of the Warp, which affected the entire Empire. The Empire completely lost all possibilities of restoring its former glory.

From then on, the Empire entered an era without the Emperor, an era of the Empire ruled by the High Lords Council, which was maintained by a delicate balance between various political forces and belonged to mortals - the post-Emperor era.

In this way, humans have twice proved two points at the cost of their own blood in 30,000 years: that is, for the Warp and the Chaos Gods, whether it is the attitude of ignoring humans in the Golden Age or the attitude of keeping a distance in the pre-Emperor era, they are all failures.

For a race, failure is not terrible, but the terrible thing is to lose the opportunity to make a comeback. Before the Emperor's injury worsened and he sat on the Golden Throne, he had already seen the end of failure and made a third and final attempt for mankind: the Grey Knights.

Like their cousins, the Grey Knights have a heavy mission: they are not only the strongest and most elite in the Imperial Armed Forces, but also the Emperor's template for the future of humanity.

So, when the Guards, as the template for humanity's second attempt, withdrew forever from the options for the future of the human race with the Emperor's failure, the Grey Knights are humanity's last hope.

From the Grey Knights, we can see that on the third and third path of rise chosen by the Emperor for humanity, the humanity he hopes for will no longer arrogantly ignore the power of the Warp like the humans in the Golden Age;

nor will they choose to stay away from it like the Empire in the pre-Emperor era. Since what is coming will come, escaping cannot solve the problem.

Then in the eyes of the Emperor, the Grey Knights, who fight the Warp head-on, deepen their understanding of the Warp in the constant battles against it, and finally master it and subdue it. Perhaps this is the greatest expectation of the Emperor for these children who, like the Custodians, directly inherit the wealth of the Emperor himself at the genetic level.

Perhaps only warriors like the Grey Knights, who can become more and more numerous in the Empire over time and eventually become the dominant force of the Imperial Armed Forces, can the Human Empire, after learning from its mistakes, decide to face the core force needed for the third rise of the Warp power head-on.

And such a burden now falls on the shoulders of our protagonist, Calvin.

For Calvin in this world, the gods are real. Then the doctrines related to God are no longer false. Even if the gods of this universe are not created by humans and do not serve humans; even if the gods of this universe are naturally full of malice towards humans.

But the knowledge related to God is still worthy of Calvin's serious study and understanding. It is not that Calvin has respect for these gods. Only by knowing it, understanding it, and mastering it can it be destroyed. This is Calvin's attitude towards them as a materialist, or pragmatist.

Calvin carefully observed the sphere in his hand that represented his soul, and the tiny golden flash that had appeared on it recently.

"Concepts are power. The more complete the concept, the stronger the power."

This was the knowledge that he first and naturally perceived in his mind when he saw the flash. And this also announced that after 30,000 years, some human beings finally obtained the initial, pioneering, and substantial knowledge on the extraordinary road to the gods.

In his mind at this moment, he was facing three different options about this initial seed that represented his power like the gods: justice, authority, and order.

The three options that seemed to represent positive abilities made Calvin quite entangled at this time: these three options may be directly related to what kind of power he initially obtained from the authority represented by this power.

And these three concepts represent the initial seeds of different power systems, and in the future development, they may bring him completely different situations.

Needless to say, authority was the first option Calvin excluded. Since he reached a deal with the Emperor, he knew that his mission was not to be second to none.

So what is justice? What is order? Justice should be kindness; while order seems to represent a somewhat cold and inhuman meaning.

Correspondingly, the thinking about good and evil also made him immersed in it and briefly understand some of the powers that the so-called gods may represent.

What is good?

What is evil?

Or is good eternal? Or is evil fixed?

In Calvin's mind, such thinking was going on at a high speed.

What is good? Is it morality? What is morality? Is it law?

None of them. Law is the bottom line for maintaining rules and order, and morality is the yearning and spirit of law.

What about good? Good should only be the original yearning goal of morality, and there is no specific definition.

Why do you say so? Because in the development of mankind, or in the development of all intelligent races, with the development of productivity, morality or the standard of goodness has never been fixed, let alone the laws that depend on them.

In primitive society, are plundering and killing evil? No, for people of that era, survival is the greatest good;

In slave society, is lifelong oppression of others evil? No, in the laws of the time, this is also a good that must be protected;

In feudal society, is oppression caused by the annexation of land and the dependence of people evil? You must know that in the society at that time, this was also good.

Goodness is like this, with the improvement of productivity, it improves its own standards, just like the gods, the evil represented, at some moments, was also good.

The establishment of each new standard of good means the renewal of the new standard of evil, and each concept of good is also opposed and unified with its predecessors, the good at that time and the evil now.

In this way, simply defined good and justice will always be much less than the accumulated evil. There is often only one definition of justice in a certain direction, while the evil that exists in opposition to it is numerous.

Even Calvin has seen a certain future of his own at this moment. If he easily takes over the authority of goodness and justice in front of him, he will eventually become a member of evil at some point in the long time to come.

So what is the eternal good? Or, what is the essence of the other side of the power corresponding to chaos?

It is order! Only order is the foundation of development, and only order is the possibility of the birth of goodness.

Thinking of this, Calvin seems to understand the goal he is pursuing, and also understands some essential truth of this universe:

Those who fight against chaos and can truly fight against the authority of the chaos gods are never these tiny humans, or their predecessors, the Eldar who have destroyed the first howl of Shalish.

But it is the order they represent as their race continues to develop along with the enlightenment of wisdom and reason.

PY a wave, a friend's book:

《My childhood sweetheart's bad sister moved into my house》

My childhood sweetheart, Ling Ge, who I hadn't seen for ten years, suddenly came to Haicheng and wanted to settle down and start a business in Haicheng.

During a dinner, Yang Fan was sold out by his mother, and Ling Ge moved into the small house he bought.

How should Yang Fan drive this sister out...

(This is probably a business article with a love story title)