A book from heaven, a book comparable with max Weber and Tocqueville, a preface of professor Zhao xiao(I)

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The book “the course of Western civilization” starts from ancient Roman England and the mission of Paul and other apostles to the British Isles. It has three volumes, B5 format, 1,300 pages, and 1.2 million words, discusses the process of the origin, development, and maturity of Western civilization, and Finally, which born the crystallization of Western civilization. The book systematically and historically expounds that Christianity is the pillar of American society; without Christianity, without brotherly love, the United States will be nonsense, no different from other countries. The book is a powerful ideological weapon with infinite power, boundless charm, strict logic, rich historical data, and sound arguments, forms a complete system. I believe that this book can help the Republicans defeat the Democrats and help Trump return to the president’s throne, promoting traditional values. Bring us back to familiar good times, the sweet first love of a man and a woman, the romantic love of a man and a woman, and the traditional warm family. The family happiness of grandparents, fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters, the brotherhood of sharing weal and woes, the pure friendship of a man and a woman. Instead of a society full of homosexuality, bisexuality, incest, social intercourse, transgender, pedophilia, marijuana, drugs. As opposed to a lustrous and dazzling, bizarre and motley society. It is the author’s goal to return to or come to a peach blossom garden society. I believe it is the common purpose of most people, every Christian. According to the current progress of translation, it may take about a year to complete. That is, in 2022. due to the difficulties in translation, if it cannot be delivered by then, I hope you will understand. I will send the translated PDF version to you; readers have ordered, indicating that the book has been in the translation process has been working hard. This book will definitely translate as soon as possible, and There is no doubt that if necessary, I would put down all the work at hand and try my best to translate this book. The English version of the book is estimated to price between 130 and 140 dollars, plus 15 US dollars for the domestic surface mail. So It is estimated that the cost of receiving the book is between 145 and 155 dollars. However, the reservation is only $110, including the mailing fee, which can obtain the book and save about 30% of the cost. So I hope you can book more and promote it more. Of course, I believe that readers who can order the book mainly are not intended to save these costs but support Christian beliefs and conservative ideas. Each of your support and sponsorship will speed up the book’s translation, help God regain glory and grandeur, and let the traditional values shine and glow again, becoming the mainstream of society. Make everyone’s life better and happier.

A book from heaven, a book comparable with max Weber’s“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” and Tocqueville’s“Democracy in America”,a preface of professor Zhao xiao(I)

When my good friend Zhan Hequan recommended Fu Jun’s book “the course of Western Civilization: from ancient Rome to the independence of the United States”, I rejoiced and doubted.

Why I rejoiced? The reason is that I believe Zhan Hequan, a good friend for many years, is a hermit and wise man who loves reading has profound knowledge and extraordinary insight; the book he recommends must have something outstanding. The reason of the doubt is that I don’t believe that Chinese scholars can write excellent books about western civilization. People who don’t understand Christianity can’t write well; Those who understand Christianity but lack academic ability still can’t write well

When I read the book, I was overjoyed by a trip I never expected. Fu Jun has a deep understanding of the mystery of the Christian faith and has strong academic skills. He can sit on the cold bench for ten years. Those results in this 1.2 million word masterpiece can attract everyone to read it all in one breath, even though it can’t be read all in such a way.

Toynbee of Britain, the great scholar of civilization studies, divided the 5500 years of human history into 21 mature civilizations: Egypt, Sumerian, Minos, ancient China, Andes, Maya, Hittite, Babylon, ancient India, Greece, Iran, Syria, Arabia, China, India, Korea, the West, Byzantine, Russia, Mexico, and Yucatan. Among them, the first six are the first generation civilization directly derived from primitive societies, and the last 15 are the relative civilization from the first generation civilization. There are also five dead Civilizations: Polynesia, Eskimo, nomads, Sparta, and Ottoman.

Unfortunately, most of the civilizations referred to above died or disappeared in the night sky of history. In my opinion, there are only three “heavenly civilizations” that can go into modern civilization: Jewish civilization, Christian civilization, and Chinese civilization (including the regions affected by Chinese culture, such as Japan and South Korea). The common characteristics of these three civilizations are: awing the heaven, longing for the way of heaven, and advocating the unity of heaven and human.

Western civilization is a Christian civilization, but it also includes different sects of Christianity such as Protestantism, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodox, It is like the mobile phone, which has different brands such as Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. At the same time, Western civilization was influenced by ancient Greece and Rome. Therefore, Western civilization is sometimes called “two Greek Civilizations,” that is, the integration of Greek civilization and Hebrew civilization.

How to explore and regard the course of Western civilization? Fu Jun, with Christian faith as the main clue, combs the process of Western history from ancient Rome, Britain to the independence of the United States, and then summarizes that “Anglo American Protestant civilization” is the mainstream of Western civilization

It’s an excellent job, even a great one! Five years of preparation, followed by six hours of writing every day for five years, resulting in the crystallization of 1.2 million words!

After Lin Yutang, the talent, there is now Fu Jun again coming out of Fujian. What a blessed state! Fujian!

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To help readers digest the tome of Fu Jun, before commenting, let’s briefly introduce the context of this book

First of all, Fu Jun opened up a clear meaning: human sensibility is the essence of human beings. It is also greed and depravity, and reason cannot be promoted from sensibility; namely, rationality cannot transcend sensibility.

In order to transcend the essence of greed and depravity and move towards civilization, people hope to lead by morality or ethics. These things are especially in China, where Confucian culture is the mainstream. The “ruling the country by virtue” all show that the country’s people are still pinning their hopes on this ancient tradition today.

But Fu Jun eloquently argued: Without God, pure secular moral philosophy cannot hold up human morality.

Fu Jun combed the moral philosophy of human beings, from Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard to Confucianism and Mohist in China, resulted that the road of pure secular moral philosophy will go nowhere

Because the essence of human moral philosophy is ” empty of emptiness,” in the end, the moral philosophy of human beings, including Confucianism, is only a knowledge, a theory, not life itself, and of course, it is difficult to nourish for life and nurture the high-level of civilization!

Moreover, Fu Jun found that those philosophers “are not thinking about the essence of life, but rather thinking about how to make themselves famous, stand out in the world, and override thousands and millions of people.”

They regard human Society as burials of their innovation, ideas, even want to act as a human mentor, new God, and utilize human destiny as the stepping stone of their ambition”.Their thoughts are not only insufficient for humankind to build a civilization but may bring them many disasters.

There is a good saying, “the end of man is the beginning of God”! After the bankruptcy of human moral philosophy, human nature can only resort to divine salvation, and the transcendence of human civilization only depends on the guidance of religion!

From this, Fu Jun turned to construct the “religious determinism” theory of civilization history. He pointed out that religion has the most critical position in human life. If there is no religion, humans will always be addicted to material enjoyment; So Christianity determines the history of the West and establishes Western civilization. It even can be said that religion determines the history of humankind.

Sociologist Louis Henry Morgan divides social evolution into three stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. With technological invention as the boundary of each stage, he thinks that the representative technological invention in the civilization stage is the phonetic system and the text. According to Wikipedia, the word “civilization” in English comes from Latin “Civilis,” which has the meaning of “urbanization” and “citizenship.” It extended to “division of labor” and “cooperation,” which means that people live in “social groups” in harmony, indicating the state of advanced social and cultural development and the process of reaching this state.

Fu Jun insisted that religion is the decisive factor of Society, and it is difficult for a society to survive without religion. The core argument that Fu Jun constantly expound and prove in the book “the course of Western civilization” is that religion has more influence on Society than material basis, economic benefits, and belief is prior to political ideas.

Based on the above, Fu Jun starts from the core concept of Christian belief and then describes Western civilization’s growth and maturity, which forms the context of the whole book.

The understanding of civilization by “religious determinism” is clearly opposed to Karl Marx’s “materialistic view of history,” and it is also very different from Robert Carneiro’s “geographical determinism” and Karl Witt Fogel’s “water conservancy system.” (which in the author’s opinion can be called “public construction theory”),” and similar “trade network theory.” Therefore, “religious determinism” theory not only is in opposition to the current mainstream ideology of China but also in opposition to the current western the Left’s thought of “relativism” and “pluralism.” It is deeply rooted in the exactly thought of conservative scholars such as Max Weber and Samuel Huntington.

In Anthropology and archaeology, civilization refers to the areas where people live and have a considerable degree of cultural and economic development, such as “two river civilization” and “Yellow River civilization,” which is marked by region and economy; However, civilization can also refer to people with a similar culture, such as Christian civilization and Confucian civilization, which is clearly marked by culture. Fu Jun’s approach is to adopt the latter more (“Christian civilization”) and at the time take some of the former (“the west”).

Fu Jun said in his book that the view of Western civilization of Huntington includes the following aspects: the classical heritage of ancient Greece and Rome, Catholicism and Protestantism, European language, separation of spiritual authority from secular authority, the rule of law, social diversity, representative institutions, and individualism.

Among them, Catholicism and Protestantism are listed and are the core factor.

I have talked about that Huntington is a prophet scholar, foresaw the “clash of Civilizations” in advance and sounded an alarm for Western civilization, especially American Society: the main threat to the United States, the most prominent bearer of Western civilization, is the multiculturalism. Multiculturalism caused by many immigrants insisting on their beliefs has weakened the influence of Christianity, which also will undermine the United States. and even break down the United States into several countries.

Fu Jun admired Huntington extremely, so he used his idea of “religion dominated civilization” to start the book: Christianity dominated Western civilization and promoted it into modern civilization. Of course, Fu Jun deeply regrets that Huntington dare not elaborate on the apparent fact that Christianity dominates Western civilization!

That makes Fu Jun enter the ranks of cultural conservatism scholars of “religious determinism”! I am so glad to see him ascend this glorious holy mountain.

What determines the course of Western history? Fu Jun replied without hesitation: Religion, religious conflict; which religion is closest to civilization and rationality? Fu Jun also answered without hesitation: Christianity, Protestantism.

In the postmodern era of “political correctness (pluralism, relativism, identity politics, etc.),” you can’t help admiring Fu Jun’s honest, brave, and truthful confession! Fu Jun is not a historian initially; he majors in engineering; perhaps the meticulous and realistic spirit of the engineering scholar makes him speak out the truth boldly without restricting academic stereotypes and political correctness!

The civilization described in Fu Jun’s book is not only about morality and religious education, not only about resolving problems through civilization and rationality, but also liberating the relationship between people, and freeing people from human nature. Everyone can enjoy the happiness of freedom and equality.

It is clear that Fu Jun’s civilization is different from culture (culture is diversified, but civilization has ranks) and is different from tradition (in traditional civilization, people only live to survive, and modern civilization pursues human dignity). It is by Christianity that a modern civilization nurtured, which respects human rights, freedom and democracy, constitutionalism justice, and sustainable development.

Max Weber argues in his famous book”Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”: Christianity is the mother of the market economy; Tocqueville argues in the book “On American Democracy”: Christianity is the mother of constitutional democracy; Brother Hawken contends in the book “the gift of Puritans”: Christianity is the mother of modern management; and now, a scholar born in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, proved with 1.2 million words: Christianity is the mother of modern civilization.

Western Christian civilization originated from the influence of Christian morality. Fu Jun summarized Christian morality as follows: it is based on faith and believes that morality is the sacred order of heaven and Eden. Only by practicing virtues can people gain salvation and enter heaven. Only in the Garden of Eden can they gain eternal life and eternity and find the meaning of life, the actual facts of life, and it uses punishment to hell as a penalty for violating morals, which makes people feel awe and dare not do anything wrong.

Fu Jun believes that the most critical aspect of Christian faith is that we must believe, and we must act according to the Bible and practice its virtues, only by which we can come to heaven. Therefore, the Christian faith also determines our life at the highest level, guides our lives, and lets us be driven by this highest faith; life will have the strongest motivation and have the sweetest happiness.

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As we all know, Christianity is the religion of love. The core of Christian moral teaching is to practice the divine love in the world, that is, to transcend like of enjoyment to love, and to live in the divine love which represents Jesus’ humility and self-sacrifice on the cross, which show as: love of brothers, love of neighbors, love of enemies, etc.

Fu Jun highly praised the holy love advocated by Christianity, especially the love of brothers. He thinks that only Christianity regards “love” as the ultimate goal of life, regards love as its own life, regards love as God, even directly indicates that love is God (to be exact, it should be “God is love” – the author). He quoted the apostle John’s saying, “4:7 Dear brothers, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.” “4:8 Without love, you don’t know God because God is love.”

Fu Jun subtly noticed that God is love; only love can you know God. Love is a very common concept mentioned in many religions and theories, but no religion or secular doctrine places love in such a sublime position as Christianity.

Fu Jun, therefore, stressed that no religion has ever promoted love to such a high level as Christianity，only through love can we Salvate and see God. This simple discussion will firmly bind self-interest with altruism, public interest, and Society. Through faith and love, we can achieve the great transcendence of life.

In Fu Jun’s view, civilization can preserve all kinds of material wealth, science and technology, and cultural achievements. And the only thing that can preserve these is the brotherly love of Christianity (the author believes that it is the divine nature of Christ, is a brotherly love after salvation), and rationality (in the author’s opinion) it can be called the “light of rationality,” namely rationality after God’s revelation).

Fu Jun pointed out that: the first element of human existence, the most incredible feelings, the meaning of human existence – the love of brothers. The only way to ensure mental health is to believe and love. Only faith and love can make our soul rich and sweet and make our mental health and life happy and bliss.

Fu Jun said that the love of brothers is embodied not only by life relations but also by church law in Britain. The ultimate purpose of church law is brotherhood. The ultimate aim of the trial is to focus on the conversion of pagan and correction of heresy so that everyone can go to heaven after death.

Christian morality helps people solve the contradiction between selfish human nature and human virtue through faith, brotherly love, through believing in immortality, eternity, and the ultimate end target. And through faith in God and the Bible, brotherly love, humankind also avoids endless war as far as possible, generates endless internal power transcending selfish human nature to virtue, secures the order and stability of the Society, and creates a beautiful and happy life.

Fu Jun directly linked civilization with faith and brotherly love. Premier Wen Jiabao once said that without love, there would be nothing. Through “The Course of Civilization,” Fu Jun powerfully proved that Without Christ’s humility, self-sacrifice, and dedication of the great love from heaven. Humankind could not overpower themselves, nor could it initiate civilization ，and the renewal of the earth.

After constructing the “religious determinism” ideological hall, Fu Jun turned to a grand historical narrative and further perfected his “religious civilization” theory.

Unlike the popular opinion that the Catholic Church contributes little to human civilization, Fu Jun pointed out that before the Protestant church, the Pope, the Holy See, and the whole Catholic world made outstanding contributions to human civilization. It is no exaggeration to say that without them, there would be no human civilization today. From the British Isles to the European pervading churches, monasteries, nurseries, nursing homes, catechism schools, universities are testimony to their hard work. They spread their brotherhood on the vast land, infiltrate justice and fairness in every piece of land, they disseminate knowledge to every soul; without them, there would be absolutely no happiness for us today.

Chinese people have been used to criticism and denial of Catholicism. But in fact, many profound writings show that, despite the “corruption of religious power” such as Pope, Catholic contribution to human civilization is still enormous; even the history of the Middle Ages is not written in the word “dark.”

Fu Jun pointed out that: under the care of Christianity, the pillar of the new Society, from 500 years, European Society slowly recovered from this catastrophe and started to develop orderly. About 1000 years, it has surpassed China in agricultural technology, and other industrial technologies have generally surpassed still more. At the same time, their population also increased. Instead of consuming the population through civil war, the European Society released the pressure of the population outwards so that Europe formed a tradition of continuous colonization and expansion. The whole European Society has shaped a prosperous and prosperous situation.

Then came Protestantism after 1507. Protestantism has dramatically increased the influence of Christianity on human civilization. Just as China’s reform and opening-up started from the ideological revolution of “the discussion of the standard of truth” (essentially from the worship of the individual or the standard of the individual, to the authority of truth, the standard of truth),” the “Protestant Revolution” also started from the ideological revolution ( From religious authority to the authority of God, and God is actually the body of truth).

In Fu Jun’s view, Martin Luther’s “justification by faith” emphasized that God’s justice is not a so-called good deed but a belief in God. The judgment of God is not to judge what we do in the world but to judge our faith in him. At this moment, the authority of salvation and truth

shifted from religious authority to God.

Luther further proposed: everyone can be a priest, everyone is his own pastor, everyone can obtain salvation through himself, and everyone is equal in the realm of faith. After denying the existence of the pyramid-shaped authority of the Pope and the Holy See, Luther came to his most excellent idea that everyone is equal under God.

On this basis, Luther also proposed that everyone can read the Bible, explain the Bible, can communicate with God through the Bible, and God can come to each of us through the Bible.

Justified by faith, everyone can be a priest, and everyone can read and understand the Bible. These three ideas construct a vital part of Lutheran Protestantism., destroy the pyramid-shaped authority of the Pope and the Holy See, which is pressure on the head of faith.

Calvin further promoted the rights of Christians based on Luther. For example, he deduces the sacred and inviolable private right through the Ten Commandments in the Bible, and the people have the right to protect themselves with guns and so on. Calvin pointed out that possession of guns is protected their lives and property and is the most basic and essential right because human nature is greedy and depravity. May be corrupt and degenerated at any time; The government is formed by humankind, so the spirit of government is also evil. It is possible to violate individual rights at all times.

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Today, Republicans in the United States insist that possession of guns is the dignity and honor of a Christian, a defense of freedom and equality, and an inalienable right, which is coming from Calvin.

This Christian spiritual DNA is the origin of Western civilization, the cornerstone of the so-called capitalism, and the foundation of the so-called human rights concept.

After finishing his discussion on the Catholic and religious reform, Fu Jun naturally led us into the historic corridor of the “British revolution” and “American Revolution.”

As we all know, Western civilization stemmed from Europe, but in Europe, Western civilization also has two trends:  Europe and The British Isles. The civilization in the European continent is mainly in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and other countries. Catholicism influenced the general characteristics of the European countries, and later by “humanism” and “rationalism” (the so-called “Renaissance” and “Enlightenment”) which rebelled against Catholicism. So it is far from the road of The British Isles with empiricism.

Fu Jun’s unusual is that he positioned the origin of Western civilization in England of ancient Rome, starting with the missionary work of the apostles Paul and Joseph in ancient Rome and the establishment of the original apostolic church. Fu Jun creatively pointed out that because the soil of the three British islands permeated with Christian brotherhood, civilization and rationality also flowed in the blood of the British people, so that the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy was utterly different from other parts of the world, and so was the development of Britain.

In England, the relationship between people is kind, natural. Kings and nobles naturally transfer their improper rights to Knights, squires, and civilians to exercise their rights in Parliament. There not emerges absolute monarchy like in other places. Britain completed the Magna Carta at the end of the 13th century, forming a stable parliamentary system, and the Royal power is strictly limited. Under these conditions, natural capitalism came into being. All these are related to their unique, rational, and civilized soil, which full of brotherly love.

Fu Jun argued: through the tradition of the rule of law and the court of equity, Britain naturally realized the complete victory of capitalism over feudalism and the transition from feudalism to capitalism, which is unique in the world. In other parts of the world, to transition from feudalism to capitalism, there is the rolling of head and blood flowing in the river everywhere.

Most importantly, the pilgrims from the British Isles to colonize North America gave birth to the United States, the strongest country in the world today, “a city on the hill” of God, and a country called “Lighthouse of mankind.”

What I want to point out is that Britain and the United States are often associated: British and American literature, British and American tradition, British and American maritime law system, British and American conservatism. In fact, the key lies in the common blood of Britain and the United States: Protestant civilization

Fu Jun points out that the pyramid organizational Structure of the Hierarchical bureaucracy of Confucianism is the most natural and reasonable system of human beings, while freedom and equality are the most unrealistic and the most unreasonable way of human existence. However, the Puritans insisted on equality and liberty as a kind of faith, which produced many revolutionary ideas that the secular Society did not have and brought humankind into an unprecedented civilized world.

Fu Jun exhaust all his energies through dozens of sporadic American academic monographs details the government of Puritans, such as Winthrop governing in Massachusetts. And demonstrate that they were completely different from Britain, let alone other parts of the world, a new social governance model that gives birth to the United States. The essential characteristics of this governance are that democratic election, municipal autonomy, state ministerial systems, two-level Parliament, etc., this is impossible to taste elsewhere in human Society. And eventually, it became the prototype of today’s U.S. constitution.

Fu Jun also realized that although all human beings today advocate freedom and equality, the Puritans such as Winthrop actually have a higher goal: building a society full of brotherly love. Therefore, the equality and liberty of the North American colonies are all related to Puritanism. Many concepts, such as the rule of saints, the system of magistrate, and the biblical community, are unheard of by everyone, but they are the ideological roots and basis for the formation of today’s American constitutionalism; therefore, it is so unique, so it is everlasting

In contrast, other political theories in human history have never regarded brotherhood as the meaning of national existence.

Why can Protestant countries maintain stability for hundreds of years, but it is difficult in other societies? Fu Jun’s answer is: because all the people believe in God, believe in the same Bible, believe that everyone is equal under God, and are full of brotherly love.

What is the essence of America? Most people might say they believe in the Constitution of the United States. But Fu Jun insisted that the correct answer should be: love of brothers! The United States, not because of beautiful, But because of love, the love of Christ, the love of heaven, the love of brothers.

Fu Jun then elaborated on the American Revolution and the process of American independence, which was detailed, original, in-depth, and profound. I will not introduce them one by one.

I want to point out that Fu Jun’s exposition still runs through the main thread of his “religious determinism.” For example, the cause of the U.S. revolution is generally considered to be taxation. But we also know that the economy is only superficial. In fact, the British tax is not high or even low; The reason lies in politics. “No taxation without representation” is a political rule recognized by the American people, so it is not acceptable for the British to levy taxes at will. Fu Jun emphasized a deeper cause of belief conflict: the Puritans in New England resisted and could not accept the British government’s attempt to promote Anglican in the colonies and establish the bishops system.

In Fu Jun’s narration, the American Revolution, like the British revolution, is essentially a religious revolution; The victory and establishment of a more pure Christian faith often mean more civilized, progressive, and developed societies and countries. It is the significant contribution of Christianity to human civilization!

From the perspective of Christianity determining Western civilization, Fu Jun puts forward new ideas of the five founding fathers of the United States: Winthrop (the first Protestant immigrant and the grand vision of establishing the “city on the hill”) as the first father of the nation; Mather Interest is the second father of the nation (he won the precious second charter for Massachusetts); Samuel Adams (who played a role in the American War of independence, according to Fu Jun), ranked third; John Adams (the second president of the United States, one of the five drafting members of the declaration of independence, known as the “giant of American independence”) ranked fourth; Washington, needless to say, can only come in fifth.

I would like to point out that at the beginning of the founding of the United States, there were about 3 million people, most of whom accepted Calvin’s thoughts. Therefore, many people praised Calvin as the “father of the United States’ founding.”.

Fu Jun’s “the course of west civilization” was first published on the Internet. After reading this book, many netizens expressed great satisfaction and even praised it as comparable to Tocqueville’s “on American democracy” and Weber’s “Protestant Ethics and the spirit of capitalism.” It is a rare ideological masterpiece in recent years and will occupy its due place in the history of world thought.

Next, let me talk about my comments and suggestions.

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Reading through Fu Jun’s book “The cause of West Civilization,” the most critical enlightenment to people is that human civilization can be briefly divided into two types: civilization with Christ and civilization without Christ.

At the same time, of course, a key question is: What kind of civilization do you recognize and choose?

Due to limited space, I will only state three points on the concluding theme of “Civilization with Christ and Civilization without Christ.”

1 、 The civilization of Christ is based on the belief in Christ, which is the civilization of enlightenment, not the civilization that stays on the rational level of human beings; The non-Christian civilization is lack of faith in Christ, and it comes from human reason, ideology, moral philosophy and so on.

Rationality is a gift from God to man, but when man rejects God, Rationality becomes the reason that let man tainted by sin and even becomes a weapon for man to reject God. However, people from Jews to Christians who accept God have realized God’s revelation Bible with both reason and spirituality, help people to transcend human instinct and human reason to construct a brilliant Hebrew- Christian civilization.

The most obvious is monogamy. Fu Jun’s book also mentioned that this is a unique rule in the Christian world. This marriage rule conflicts with the doctrines of other religions, customs of secular Society, and human instinct and rationality. Because of the greed and depravity of human nature, it is more inclined to polygamy or polyandry. In the traditional secular Society of China, the emperor can have countless concubines, the scholar-officials, three wives and four concubines, and ordinary people can also have groups of wives and concubines as long as economic conditions permit. Monogamy can be said to be anti-human and anti-life, but monogamy is from God’s revelation in the depth of the soul. It comes from the moral law established by God in the deep universe. It is the utmost respect for husband and wife, the greatest love. When Christianity determined it through the doctrine, it becomes the symbol of civilization and is accepted by all people.

Similarly, the pyramid organization construct of the hierarchial bureaucrat of Confucianism is the most natural and reasonable system of human beings. Freedom and equality are just anti-human and anti-life like monogamy, but finally accepted by all and considered as the universal civilization of human beings. at the same time, The initial formation of these ideas (human rights of talent, etc.) comes from the inspiration of God, and the power of Christianity drove their practice and formation

In the Chinese impression, the United States is evolutionary, secular, scientific, modern, and democratic. In fact, the background and pillar of the United States are divine, faith, moral, ancient, and Republican

The book “leap 5000 years” points out that 28 great ideas (28 Great Ideas That Changed the World) of founding the United States, each principle is derived from the Bible, and none of them is invented by the founding fathers, and they only discover, not create them.

The Christian “theory of God creating man” has revealed the concept of “natural human rights.” Locke pointed out that God created humans, ordered humans to reproduce, and gave all humans the right to use food, clothing, and daily necessities. It means that all power comes from God; God grants the power of governance and management to the people instead of the monarch, and the people entrust them to the government in the form of a “social contract.”

Freedom comes from God, and no one can take it away. When The king deprived the people of their freedom, he is a tyrant; If it is deprived in the name of law, the law is evil. Citizens have the power to disobey and the responsibility to disobey; If it is robbed by the majority in the name of “democracy,” that is, “tyranny of the majority,” and citizens have the power to overthrow tyranny.

The “separation of powers” — the design of the republican system is to limit the power of the government, and it is derived from the enlightenment of the Christian view of original sin. In the Bible, God has repeatedly emphasized that human nature is evil through the prophets, especially Jesus Christ. Everyone is sinful and owes the glory of God; because of man’s sinful nature, power inevitably leads to corruption, absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Montesquieu pointed out in the “Spirit of the Law” “It is a constant experience that all those who have power are prone to abuse power,”

Fu Jun’s book shows before “the United States of America” is on the horizon, the “religious refugees” in their spiritual DNA determine that this country would be a “city on the hill.”. It also means: This country must stand for Jesus Christ and let the world see the light of Jesus Christ and the glory of the cross.

Not to eat, not to drink, not to die for wealth, not to die for food, but strive to pursue freedom of faith, guided by the “divine order (in Liu Junning’s language)” inspired by God, and build a city on the hill modeling the heaven, This is the unique DNA of the United States.

The most important thing to shape the United States is the ” United States Constitution.” The United States Constitution was born out of the Christian faith. In 1787, 55 representatives of the United States Constitutional Convention discussed and passed the “United States Constitution” in Philadelphia. Among the 55 representatives who signed the U.S. Constitution, 28 were Anglicans, 8 were Presbyterians, 7 were Congregationalists, 2 were Lutherans, 2 were Methodists, and were 2 Dutch reformers. 2 Roman Catholics, 1 unidentified denomination, 3 deists.

That is, among the 55 founders of the Constitution of the United States, 94.5% are Christian believers, and only 5.5% are deists.

Two of the three Deists are Christian preachers or believers, but they are only affected by the deism and did not declare their abandonment or opposition to the Christian faith. There is only one true deism.

For more than 100 years, the six generations of Chinese intellectuals who have explored the world , but trapped in the thought cage of their own cultural ontology, especially because of the influence of the thought of ” “Chinese Learning as the Fundamental Structure, Western Learning for Practical Use” .therefore, they have not been able to enter the Christian faith, nor can they understand the enlightening “Protestant civilization.” the most they can understand and accept is the humanism and rationalism represented by the European continent, so they emphasized “Mr. Sai, Mr. De,” and then further emphasized materialism and atheism.

But the founders of America who humble themselves in front of God and in devout faith, believed that human is always human, God is always God, and man can never replace God; The most significant reason of human is to realize that rationality is incomplete, Not to hold up human rationality, and turn to God’s Enlightenment.

This God, of course, is the God of the Hebrew-Christian faith, that is, the God revealed in the “Bible” rather than the “God” about which Chinese people generally talk.

Humankind, depending on their ideas to build a country, or rely on God’s revelation to build a country, of course, this is a way and another way nearby, each side, tremendous difference!

In Europe, there is the “Renaissance” in Italy, and the French have the “Enlightenment,” which all upholds human rationality, so they are on the road of humanism and even atheism. As a result, ” As soon as humans think, God laughs, “the French Revolution was bloody, Italy fell into fascism, and then Paris Commune, Soviet Russia totalitarianism, global atheism movement, and violent revolution have been born out.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States is on the opposite path, which is theism instead of humanism, conservatism instead of liberalism, empiricism rather than rationalism, marine law system rather than civil law system; Its goal is also clear, not to stay at the human level of freedom, equality, philanthropy, and other human cultures, but to pursue “orderly freedom”: freedom, democracy, constitutionalism, Republic, etc.; There are also more sacred pursuits: the city on the hill, the love of brothers……

For the Chinese people, freedom, democracy, constitutionalism, and Republic are all strange things. But for an American, this is their way of life, with something they are familiar.

Because, before the founding of the United States, the United States had civil Society, which was conducive to shaping the United States’ national governance. Tocqueville particularly underlines this on democracy in the United States and Huntington’s “civil Society: the exception of the United States”

In the church, Americans learn how to govern in a way similar to constitutionalism and Republic. In the community, Americans know how to manage through Parliament.

First, there is the church, then Society; civil Society first, then the United States. On this basis, Huntington refutes the idea that the United States is an empire and concludes that the United States will not fall into the “decline of a great power” predicted by Paul Kennedy.

“In God, we trust,” which is still engraved in American coins today.

Therefore, to understand China, we must know Confucius and Taoism; To understand America, we must understand Jesus Christ. To understand modern civilization, we must know the basic knowledge of God’s revelation, divine order, conservatism, etc.

Unfortunately, not to mention the ordinary Chinese, even Chinese entrepreneurs who often stay in the United States, have not paid full attention to the establishment of the United States by Christ. Including the best intellectual representatives of China that I respect, such as Mr. Zi zhongyun, the former senior capital of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Zi and Mr. Chen Ping talked about “the United States for a century”; Christ and Protestantism were hardly mentioned. I listened at the time and thought they were talking about France (joy)!

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