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About the author

About the  “the course of Western civilization (essence version)”

The preface from professor ZHAO XIAO

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

PART I The General Theory and the pre—English Revolution

Chapter I religion and life

1、 The origin of religion

2、 Religion determines western history

(1)Why can Religion Determine Human History?

(2)Why can religion determine the living customs? 

(3)How great Huntington! how marvelous his “the clash of civilization”! Religion can seal human history’s fate.

(4)why only when the pig fly, Islam can achieve  freedom and democracy?

3、 Greedy and degenerate of human nature

(1) Why do great thinkers in the East and the West all think that humans are born with suffering?

(2) why is human nature greed and degeneration ?

(3) To helm over the U.S., become mentors, is the impetus for Obama and the Dem to form a big government

(4) Why the big government of the Democratic Party is asking for the moon ?

PART III . American Revolution

Chapter 1. Massachusetts: building the city on the hill,a city of God

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section 11、 if no brotherly love of Christianity, no the US , or a nonsense

1.Why does democracy only exist in Protestant countries such as Britain, the United States, and Northern Europe for a long time, while other countries have various problems?

2.European history desperately proves that Catholic countries cannot sustain democracy for long.

3.Why have frequent shootings occurred in the United States in recent years but few in the 200 years since the country’s founding?

4.Hitler’s rise to power shows how fragile democracy is! This is also the root cause of US election fraud

Chapter II. The difficult constitutional practice in the God’s city on hill

section 9 The real separation of politics and religion

1.What is the marvelous separation of church and state in the millennia-old history of Christian society?

2.Why has European Christian society developed steadily for thousands of years? Scientific and technological civilization ahead of other societies!

3.The separation of church and state in Christianity is consistent with the duality of human nature. It is very reasonable. Society must have a check and balance on the secular government and the existence of a church responsible for the spiritual realm!

4.Why is the hand of God in the market economy glorious? Without it, there would be no market economy or human society.

5.The specific boundary of the separation of church and state in Christian society is very clear, but the US government has been eroding this boundary

section12.The evolution of the separation of American society, politics, and religion

1.In the early days of the founding of the U.S, the original genuine separation of church and state.

2.After losing the Christian faith, the secular government had the will and became the ruling class, suppressing the Christian church.

3.Due to its own weakness, Protestantism was exploited by the U.S. government, and the Christian Church completely fell.

section 13、 the crazy national view of Biden, democratic party

1.The leftist view of the state is essentially a godless, atheistic, rational view of the state, but rationality is seriously flawed, and such a state has never existed in history.

2.Human nature is greedy and depraved. How can a country without faith survive? Without God, the U.S. will inevitably appear tyranny.

 3.Eastern society is closest to the leftist view of the state, but Eastern society has a horrific cyclical law of changing dynasties.

section 14、 Universal value is unique to Christian world

1.Any kindness has specific soil, so there is no universal value of arbitrary existence.

2.Facts have proved that universal values cannot exist in Confucian secular society, the Islamic world, and Southeast Asia.

3.After losing the Christian faith, the universal value can not exist in western society and can only become the hypocritical concept of political correctness.

section15、 The American government is eroding the church’s rights

1.Marriage has always been a right of the Christian Church, not a civil right

2.The U.S. government has seriously violated the Constitution’s principle of separation of church and state

3.The education of children is a basic right of Christians, and the secular government must not interfere

4.Why must the Christian Church be responsible for charities and hospitals?

5.Necessity of Establishing Religious courts

6.Protestantism must unite against the secular government, otherwise Christianity will perish, and so will humanity.

section 16 no universal religious freedom in human history

1.The originator of religious freedom, Locke, believes that religious freedom is premised and no absolute religious freedom.

2.Pushing religious freedom will bring disaster to humans. This has happened in real life

3.Religious freedom has become a tool to suppress Christianity

contents of “the course of western civilization (essence version)”

preface……………………………………………………………………………………… 2

About the author………………………………………………………………………. 3

The introduce from zhao xiao…………………………………………………….. 6

1.unexpectly encourtering in a trip…………………………………………… 6

2. Civilization with Christ……………………………………………………….. 20

PART 1.The General Theory and the pre—English Revolution

Chapter 1.religion and life………………………………………………………. 003

2. Religion determines western history…………………………………. 015

2.1 Why can religion determine human history?…………………… 015

2.2 religion determines the customs of human life, power of religion can be seen……………………………………………………………………………………… 022

2.3 Christianity determines western history…………………………. 028

2.4 Islam determines that the Islamic society must be a country of political and religious unity, and science and technology cannot save humans        036

3. Greedy and degenerate of human nature………………………….. 044

3.1 We are born with annoyance and suffering…………………….. 044

3.2  We use all kinds of pleasure to escape pain and trouble. 050

3.3 The greatest vanity of humans is to override all the others and become an emperor, or a new human God……………………………………….. 058

3.4 Any big government or hierarchy that represents greed and degenerate human nature cannot last long, and their institutions will expand infinitely to collapse……………………………………………………………………………………… 065

4. Introduction to human Civilization……………………………………. 072

4.1 The continuation of material and spiritual wealth is the basic condition of civilization……………………………………………………………………… 072

4.2 The ultimate and real civilization of humans is to eliminate the greed and degeneration of human nature and completely sublimate human nature    079

Chapter 2.browsing Human moral philosophy………………………….. 086

6. Schopenhauer………………………………………………………………….. 086

7. Nietzsche…………………………………………………………………………. 104

Chapter 3.Christian morality…………………………………………………… 129

1. Christian morality…………………………………………………………….. 129

2. The fatal defect of secular moral philosophy……………………… 136

4. Original crime…………………………………………………………………… 142

5. Duality of human nature…………………………………………………… 151

6. The love of Brothers…………………………………………………………. 157

Chapter 4.Ancient Rome Britain………………………………………………. 168

1.foreword………………………………………………………………………….. 168

2.Ancient Rome Britain………………………………………………………… 171

Chapter 5.Anglo-Saxons’ British………………………………………………. 189

2. Monastery……………………………………………………………………….. 189

3. No bloody belligerence of Anglo-Saxons’ aristocracy………….. 196

Chapter 7.Luther and Calvin……………………………………………………. 203

3. Equality and dignity — a deep feeling………………………………… 203

4. The trap of equality for all — the trap of temptation………….. 212

7. Predestination…………………………………………………………………. 222

9. The state and the church………………………………………………….. 235

 PART 2.English Revolution

Chapter 1.Tudor Dynasty in the wave of Protestantism…………….. 263

2. The difference between the presbyterian Puritan and the independent Puritan…………………………………………………………………………………………… 263

PART 3.American Revolution

Chapter 1.Massachusetts: building the city on the hill, , a city of God 275

4. Election, autonomy of Puritans, the essence of the United States          275

11. Without brotherhood, America is nothing……………………….. 285

Chapter 2.The difficult constitutional practice in God’s city on the hill         295

1. Republican system: Biblical community, people’s system……. 295

2. Great governor system……………………………………………………… 306

3. The rule of saints……………………………………………………………… 315

4. The rule of saints — perhaps a good hand in solving the dilemma of democracy…………………………………………………………………………………………… 324

7. City and town autonomy: a powerful hidden weapon in the United States    334

9. The real separation of politics and religion………………………… 345

12. The evolution of the separation of American society, politics and religion   358

13. Crazy view of the state of American left thinkers……………… 370

14. Universal value is unique to Christian world…………………….. 381

15. The American government is eroding the church’s rights….. 396

16. There has never been universal religious freedom in human history   408

18. The Puritanism revolution completed by winslop…………….. 418

 Chapter 4.Colonies after the Glorious Revolution…………………… 425

8. Franklin’s original North American federal program, Washington began his career…………………………………………………………………………………………… 425

Chapter 11.second continental Conference……………………………… 437

15. The defeat in Canada, the complicated situation……………… 437

Chapter 12.Independence……………………………………………………….. 450

7. Independence………………………………………………………………….. 450

Contents

The contents of the whole book， excerpts are in the boldface

PART I The General Theory and the pre—English Revolution

Chapter I religion and life

1、 The origin of religion

2、 Religion determines western history

2.1 Why can religion determine human history？

2.2 religion determines the customs of human life, power of religion can be seen

2.3 Christianity determines western history

2.4 Islam determines that the Islamic society must be a country of political and religious unity, and science and technology cannot save humans

3、 Greedy and degenerate of human nature

     3.1  We are born with annoyance and suffering

     3.2  We use all kinds of pleasure to escape pain and trouble

     3.3 The greatest vanity of humans is to override all the others and become an emperor, or a new human God

     3.4  Any big government or hierarchy that represents greed and degenerate human nature cannot last long, and their institutions will expand infinitely to collapse

4、 Introduction to human civilization

     4.1 The continuation of material and spiritual wealth is the basic condition of civilization

     4.2 The ultimate and real civilization of humans is to eliminate the greed and degeneration of human nature and completely sublimate human nature

Chapter II. browsing Human moral philosophy

1、 Aristotle

2、 Hobbes

3、 Locke

4、 Stuart Mill

5、 Kant

6、 Schopenhauer

7、 Nietzsche

8、 Kierkegaard

Chapter III  Christian morality

1、 Christian morality

2、 The fatal defect of secular moral philosophy

3、 Faith is powerful

4、 Original crime

5、 Duality of human nature

6、 The love of Brothers

7、 Love perfects the law

Chapter IV. Ancient Rome Britain

1、 foreword

2、 Ancient Rome Britain

Chapter V. Anglo-Saxons’ British

1、 Preface

2、 Monastery

3、 No bloody belligerence of Anglo-Saxons’ aristocracy

Chapter 6. British under the Great Charter

1、 The background of the Great Charter

2、 The birth and significance of the Great Charter

3、 The Great Charter and the establishment of the legal system

4、 The implementation of the Great Charter — faith, covenant, Parliament

5、 Church law and equity

6、 Capitalism developed rapidly

Chapter VII Luther and Calvin

1、 The causes of Protestantism

2、 Luther — justification by faith

3、 Equality and dignity — a deep feeling

4、 The trap of equality for all — the trap of lethal temptation

5、 Luther’s fatal defect

6、 Calvin — the first city of God in the world

7、 Predestination

8、 Puritans in Weber’s eyes

9、 The State and the church

part II. British revolution

Chapter I. Tudor Dynasty in the wave of Protestantism

1、 Anglicanism –The origin of Puritanism

2、 The difference between the presbyterian Puritan and the independent Puritan

3、 The development of Puritanism

Chapter II. British under James I

1、 The situation in contemporary England

2、 England’s political system

3、 the Presbyterian of Scotland

4、 the Catholic of Ireland

Chapter III. British ruled by Charles I before the Civil War

1、 Charles I

2、 Early reign of Charles I

3、 11 years long of Charles I’s dictatorship without parliamentary

4、 William Laud and Arminius

Chapter IV. The battle of Bishops

1、 Edinburgh’s anger

2、 Scotland covenant party

3、 The Bishop’s war broke out

4、The short Parliament of England

5、 Charles I was defeated

Chapter V. the first civil war

1、 The Long Parliament of England

2、 Ireland with complexities of a situation

3、 Weaving the big net of sectarian conflict

4、the death of Scapegoat – trial of Stratford

5、 Charles I and the independent Puritans

6、The Catholic rebellion of Ireland

7、 More and more like a mess in the British Isles

8、 Charles I fled London

9、 Two parliaments exist at the same time, and civil war not be avoided

10、 Civil war began

11、 The causes of the Civil War

12、 The loss of the parliamentary army in the early civil war

13、 Cromwell

14、The union of England and Scotland

15、 Marston wilderness war

16、 The dispute of war or peace between the presbyterian and the independent Puritan

17、 Fairfax and the New Model Army

18、 The first civil war gradually extinguished

Chapter VI. after the first civil war

1、 A tough trip of peace negotiations

2、 Charles I’s unwillingness to fail and the presbyterian Puritan oppressing of the New Model Army

3、 The levelers rise in the army

4、 The war Hijacked the king

5、 Marching into London – “we are not mercenaries.”

6、 Entering London — the levelers make waves

7、 Putney debate: a great and first debate on equality

8、 Charles I escaped

9、 Fairfax suppressed the levelers, rectified the army

Chapter VII. Second Civil War

1、 The process of The second civil war

2、 Pride cleaning

3、 Killing the King

Chapter VIII. Republican system – two parliaments

1、 the levelers pursued quick success and revolted again

2、 The aftermath of the levelers

3、 The rise of the fifth monarchy

4、 The Rump Parliament can’t catch up with the Republican footsteps

5、 inefficiency, incompetence of the Rump Parliament

6、 The death of the Rump Parliament

7、 The emergence of the saints’ Parliament

8、 The saints’ parliament is slowly divided

9、 The saints’ parliament burned off in a passion

ChapterIX. The period of Cromwell’s protection

1、 The foundation of the Protectorate — the Charter of government

2、 As a tide player, Cromwell

3、 The first parliament in the Protectorate

3、 The second Parliament during The Protectorate

4、 The third Parliament of The Protectorate

5、 Cromwell’s legacy

Chapter 10. Restoration of Charles II

1、 Robert Cromwell abdicated

2、 The restoration of Charles II

3、 The significance of the British revolution

Part III. American Revolution

Chapter 1. Massachusetts–building the city on the hill, a city of God

1、 Luther’s view of the history and Eschatology—— The first bud of God’s city on a hill

2、 The historical view of Anglicans — the beginning of the comprehensive struggle with Catholic Europe

3、 The Puritans of the congregationalism pursued freedom and equality extremely

4、 Election, Autonomy of the Puritans, the essence of the United States

5、 For eternity, for immortality – to North America, to Holy Land

6、 Winthrop, the first founding father of the United States

7、 Abandon the glory and wealth, pursue the real American dream

8、 The prototype of God’s city — the first Massachusetts charter

9、 Winthrop’s American Dream — building a city on the hill

10、 A city on a hill, everyone looks at us

11、 Without brotherly love, America is no sense

12、 On the declaration of May Flower

13、 Purgatory, Thanksgiving

Chapter two. The difficult constitutional practice in God’s city on the hill

1、 Republican system: commonwealth, civil chief system

2、 Great governor system

3、 The rule of saints

4、 The rule of saints — perhaps a healing hand in solving the dilemma of democracy

5、 The two-level parliamentary system is gradually formed

6、 The origin of the two-level parliamentary of the United States

7、 City and town autonomy: a powerful hidden weapon in the United States

8、 Town autonomy, town conference — the mark of Massachusetts

9、 The real separation of politics and religion

10、 Williams event: the separation of politics and religion

11、 Mrs. Hutchinson incident: the separation of politics and religion in the two-headed snake form

12、 The evolution of the separation of politics and religion in American society,

13、 Crazy view of the State of American left thinkers

14、 Universal value is unique to the Christian world

15、 The American government is eroding the church’s rights

16、 There has never been universal religious freedom in human history

17、 Principle legislation and promotion of education and culture in Massachusetts

18、 The Puritanism revolution was completed by Winthrop

19、 The great rule of saints of Puritans ended abruptly

20、 The rebirth of Massachusetts

Chapter 3. Establishment of other colonies outside Massachusetts

1、 Virginia: the call of Anglican

2、 Virginia entered the 18th century in the wind and rain vicissitudes

3、 The holy experiment of the Quaker in Pennsylvania

4、 Penn, the proprietary of Pennsylvania, the miserable life of him

5、 North, South Carolina: Locke’s failure

6、 New Jersey and Delaware

8、 Maryland – the arrival of Catholics, 9. The other three states of New England — Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

Chapter four. Colonies after the Glorious Revolution

1、 Glorious Revolution

2、 The national religion Anglican sought the status of established religion in colonial states

3、 Mather increase, the second founding father of the United States

4、 The colonial situation in North America in the middle of the 18th century (before the seven years’ war) (I)

5、 The colonial situation in North America in the middle of the 18th century (before the seven years’ war) (II)

6、 The overview of the colonial population and the two urgent problems

7、 Trade Commission, the Immediate boss of the North American colony

8、 Franklin’s original North American federal program, Washington began his career

9、 The war towards the empire that the sun never sets — The Seven Years’ War

Chapter V. stamp duty struggle

1、 The origin of stamp duty

2、 Otis, the pioneer of the American Revolution, the North American land slowly fermented

3、 Samuel Adams, the third founding father of the United States

4、 Patrick Henry set off a wave of resistance, and Rockingham formed the cabinet.

5、 Boston fanned the fire and had been a catalyst for the American Revolution

6、 The colonial conference was holden, and struggle swept across North America

7、 The cancellation of stamp duty — the victory of civilization and reason

Chapter VI. Townshend acts struggle

1、 The real reason for the outbreak of the American Revolution

2、 The birth of the Townshend Acts and a letter from farmers

3、 Massachusetts launched the campaign not to import British goods

4、 British decided to send troops to Boston

5、town conference showed its power again and again. Massachusetts held an autonomous assembly

6、 British troops stationed in Boston, the British cabinet, and the Massachusetts governor changed

7、 Boston strictly implements the non-import agreement and the influence of colonial resistance on the British

8、 Boston massacre

Chapter seven. Samuel Adams’ counterattack,

1、 the cease to the non-import British goods, George III dominates

2、 George III pressing step by step, tighten the rope

3、 Samuel Adams established the Town Committee of Correspondence

4、 Virginia established the State Committee of Correspondence, and the colonial struggle was revived

5、 The great significance of The Boston Tea Party

6、 Details of The Boston Tea Party, the British government suppressed it in an all-round way

Chapter 8. Massachusetts strangled by the British government

1、 savage blockade on Boston

2、 New York to propose a continental conference firstly in the advent of the epoch-making moment

3、 Other states responded positively and elected representatives of the first Continental Conference

4、 British government rescinds the Massachusetts charter, and Massachusetts “never surrender, fight.”

5、 the struggle in Massachusetts became more and more tempestuous, and the first proposal about autonomy

Chapter 9, the first Continental Conference

1、 Representative of Massachusetts was ladened with worried; the first Continental conference was almost dead

2、 Some consensus has been reached in the continental Conference

3、 Continental conference defended justice, and Massachusetts prepared for war

4、 Quebec Act to speed up the independence of the United States

5、 Franklin was tearful and finally made a reconciliation effort

6、 William Pitt appealed with tears of blood, an indomitable Massachusetts,

7、 Henry’s “not free, rather than die,” each State discussed the first Continental conference resolution

8、 The British Parliament pleaded with the king to declare Massachusetts a rebellion, and North proposed a settlement again

Chapter 10 battle of Lexington–Concord

1、 The prelude to Lexington’s shots

2、 Lexington’s shots (Part 1)

3、 Lexington’s shots (Part 2)

4、 The wave of Lexington’s shots

5、 Afterwave

Chapter 11 second continental Conference

1、 The second continental conference was held, and the Puritan militia used gunfire to drive independence

2、 Virginia vetoed the new settlement, and the colonies were generally against democracy

3、 The continental conference had been seeking reconciliation,

4、 The US army established officially

5、 Battle of Bunker Hill

6、 Cambridge, Washington Rectifying Army

7、 Massachusetts formed a formal parliament, preliminary independence

8、 Central states and Virginia still want to reconcile with the UK

9、 North and South Carolina is more radical

10、 Continental conference continued to hesitate. Franklin came to the military camp to coordinate

11、 George III declared the North American colony rebellion, Pennsylvania in chaos

12、 The continental conference to practice the government model in the future

13、 John Adams: the fourth founding father of the United States, Washington – the fifth founding father of the United States

14、 The British Parliament with George III

15、 The defeat in Canada, the complicated situation

16、 Virginia war, the time for independence still not ripe

Chapter 12. Independence

1、 Take Boston back

2、 The continental conference slowly marched on the independent road

3、 The French contradiction

4、 South Carolina led in establishing an autonomous government

5、 Virginia and other states declared independence

6、 The difficulty of New York, Pennsylvania, and their final adoption of an independent resolution

7、 Independence