美国政府不断侵蚀着基督教会的权利 （中英文版）

而当新教诞生、产生多个新教派之后，上帝的精神之剑也随之旁落了，每个教派都认为自己拥有它，但是在一盘散沙状态中，实际上谁也没有真正拥有它，精神之剑已经失去了原来的威力，无法对国家形成制约，于是国家不断的侵蚀的原本属于教会的权利，成为了一头失去控制的利维坦怪兽。

婚姻原本是基督教世界的圣事，神圣、庄严。因为上帝说男人离开父母后，将与女人结为一体，互相忠诚、永不分离。在教堂中牧师问男方你愿意娶她为妻吗？问女方你愿意嫁给他为妻吗？那是在上帝见证下的承诺与发誓，是无比的圣洁与神圣。一夫一妻、一男一女是上帝赐予人类爱情的结果，人类也以汗牛充栋的诗篇描写爱情的甜蜜、芬芳，婚姻就是这些甜蜜、芬芳爱情的结果，一男一女、一夫一妻的婚姻也是对爱情的讴歌，对忠诚的赞美。一男一女、一夫一妻的婚姻也是人类延续的必需，在爱的港湾中新一代幸福成长。一男一女、一夫一妻的婚姻也是社会稳定的要求，与一夫多妻、三妻四妾相比，它是最稳定的家庭结构。人类历史上重未有定义婚姻的法律，婚姻原本就是宗教领域的事，原本就是教会管辖的范围，一男一女、一夫一妻婚姻的圣洁神圣，同样是基督教世界独有的现象。非基督教世界认可的婚姻不只是一夫一妻，他们同样认可一夫四妻，或者三妻四妾的婚姻，及至嫔妃无数在他们眼里也认为是正常的。但是基督教世界神圣庄严的圣事，今天已经被联邦最高法院的五名法官轻易推翻，这五位法官取代圣经，重新定义了婚姻，他们将婚姻扩展到同性，轻易推翻上帝的话语。这是对宗教自由何等的践踏，这是对基督徒何等的污辱，对圣经何等的蔑视，可是整个美国新教会平时纷争不止、喋喋不休，此时却鸦雀无声、默然接受，可知美国社会的非基督教化、世俗化已经到了何等地步，教会已经萎缩弱化到何等程度，上帝精神之剑已经完全旁落，基督教会在美国政府面前已经毫无还手之力。

国家夺走了教育，这个原本属于教会的重大功能，每个基督徒当然都想将自己的宗教体验，传授给自己的孩子，让孩子们依据圣经幸福地生活，没有哪位父母亲希望自己的孩子长大后，痛苦地活着，也不可能有这样的父母，让自己孩子尝遍所有苦难，自己悟出信仰基督才是生活的真谛这个真理，而这原本是他们早就知道的事实，每一位基督徒父母都恨不得孩子一懂事，就告诉他们这个真理，每一位父母亲都希望自己的孩子，时时刻刻幸福快乐。可是曾经的基督教国家，美国，如今却使用基督徒的税收，以公立学校的名义向基督徒子女传授，同性恋、上帝造人荒谬、圣经内容不真实，这些基督教会永远不可能接受的内容。据说这也是“政治正确”，让孩子们有自由选择宗教的权利，这就是我前面章节论述过的“政治正确”的伪善、虚伪。我在本书的第二章中长篇累赘地论述过，人类的道德是建立在信仰之上，我不知道有哪一种宗教，可以让自己的孩子自由选择宗教，没有一种宗教有这样的教义，这种说法只有伪善的政治家才说得出来的，也再次证明了，“政治正确”同样是伪善、虚伪的，根本就是一些空洞抽象的概念。这种让孩子自由选择宗教的理论，与父母原本就知道屎是臭的，可是非要让小孩自己尝一遍何异。人类原本就是神秘、神奇的存在物，人类根本就无法解答人自何来，又将何往这个问题，人类对生命、对自身的认识都还极其浅薄，很明显孩子成长受环境影响很大，这些持所谓“政治正确’”的政治家，是否同意让自己的孩子被邪教团伙带走，让孩子在邪恶的环境下长大，看看长大后孩子会是什么样的人。于此同理，基督徒父母既然感受到，基督教会的甜蜜、圣经的伟大，为什么不能让自己的孩子接受这些？非要将他们交给邪教团伙般的公立学校去培养，这不是很荒唐吗？所以说世俗政府剥夺基督教会、基督徒对孩子教育权是极其野蛮、罪恶的行为，可如今的美国教会却无人出来力争，无人出来抗议，可知如今的美国新教会，已经孱弱到可有可无的地步，这是何等悲哀的一件事，上帝在天堂看了不知作何感想，是否会将愤怒之火喷射向美国，让美国也接受一次血与火的洗礼。

慈善在基督教会原本是自愿的事，基督教会二千年历史上，从来没有强制募捐的记载，因为强制募捐不符合圣经的教义。可是当慈善事业被国家夺走后，成为法律，成为一种福利制度，这实际上就是对其他人的强制募捐，无论你是以税收的名义还是以其他方式。如果这些福利能够用于必须的地方，倒没什么，可是如今美国的大量福利，却用于好吃懒做之徒身上，反而鼓励了人类好逸恶劳的恶习，与真正的福利功能，基督教的慈善背道而驰。穷人受穷有很多原因，最良好的制度下也有穷人，当然良好制度下穷人，与邪恶制度下的穷人标准概念不同，邪恶制度下的穷人，很多是制度性的，你再勤劳也富裕不起来，而在良好制度下的穷人，很多是自己的原因，由于人性的贪婪堕落、好逸恶劳而贫穷，如果由于自己的原因而受穷，却认为政府福利是理所应当的，那么将形成一种恶性循环，每个人都等着政府救济，谁也不愿朝九晚五辛苦地去上班，那么就像我们前面章节所论述的，社会就陷入高福利的泥潭中。而慈善事业被政府收走之后，就成了一件理所当然的事，与原来基督教会的慈善性质完全不同，教会的慈善款是基督徒们自愿捐助的，行善时教会会极力引导你成为基督徒，即使成为不了基督徒也会对基督教有好感，而基督教本身就有劝诫的功能，告诉你人性是贪婪堕落的，每一个人都有好逸恶劳的倾向，只有通过信仰、通过上帝才可以获得拯救，人不应该任由自己贪婪堕落，应该自救。更主要是还会告诉你，这些福利是兄弟姐妹们节俭出来的，目的就是为了上帝的真义，让大家都感受到上帝的爱，感受到兄弟之爱，这与去政府部门领取福利，领完就走，是性质完全不同的两件事，一个体现兄弟之爱，一个是慷别人之慨的强制募捐，或者至少是为了维持社会稳定，这种非常现实的功能。

医院本来也是教会一项传统功能，曾经的教会医院遍地开花，给人类带来巨大的福音，给民众巨大的福利。可是医院被国家接管后，在医生的入职资格、医院的硬件上设置了高准入的门槛，加上医疗事故保险昂贵，使富裕如美国也出现看病难的现象，这岂不是咄咄怪事。其实治疗一些小病，根本就没必要那么高的入职门槛，这些小病社区的小门诊就可以就近解决，没必要非要到大医院去全面检查，忍受排队等候的煎熬。这一点，中国的社区小门诊我觉得非常有可取之处，方便简单，其实我们一般人患的大多数就是这些小病，拿点药，最多几瓶点滴也就治好了，为什么非要去大医院折腾？而且教会医院有着上千年的经验，可以设立自己标准，没必要在入职资格、硬件上设置过高的门槛，医疗保险的保费也没必要那么高。由于信仰，相信上帝在天上看着，相信每一位教会医生都不会辜负上帝的重托，都会凭良心做事，不会轻率地对待每一位病人，也许出现医疗事故后索赔的金额比较低，但无疑对许多无法去私立医院及时就诊，看病难的穷人，是一种救济方法。

教会法庭融于世俗法庭原本也是应该的事，因为新教改革之后出现了众多的教派，教会法庭由哪个教派来组织负责，确实是个难题。但是如今美国的法律，已经走向另外一个极端，已经成为一个与正义无关的律师帝国，法律条文浩如烟海、汗牛充栋，即使律师也必须分成无数的专业律师，更不用说一般人了。很明显这种法律体系，已经走进了死胡同，根本不符合常理，越来越脱离现实，只能成为律师帝国的圈钱工具，穷人根本不敢打官司，因为无法承担昂贵的律师费用，更不会说与富人打官司了。这时候重提教会法庭，就有非常现实的意义，也许我们可以不用教会法庭这个名词，以免给人以精神迫害之感，我们可以称它为教会法律调解室。这个方面伊斯兰教就做得非常好，它们有许多由基层阿訇主持的调解室，化解许多邻里纠纷等小案件，用最小成本缓和社会矛盾，维持社会秩序。在教会的法律调解室，原告被告双方共同面对上帝，面对圣经，共同发誓以上帝的名义，以自己的良心行事，对一些邻里纠纷、经济摩擦等小案件，大家尽量妥协退让，使事情简化处理，无需耗费大量的人力、物力，特别是律师费用。如果教会调解不成，才交给世俗法庭处理，我想这是每一个虔诚的，有着兄弟之爱的基督徒乐于接受的事，在教会的调解室大家坦诚相待，各诉缘由，许多问题应该都能很好地解决，不至于像在世俗法庭上，大家费尽心机、相关算尽，使事情越弄越复杂，费用越来越昂贵，一场官司下来，即使胜方也所得无几，更不用说败方了。

在殖民地的初期，由于民事长官也是虔诚的清教徒，而且还是建造上帝山巅之城的推动者，民事长官是可以介入宗教事务的，清教徒反对任何权威，一盘散沙的致命缺陷也就没有表现出来。可是发展下去却是另外一种情形，政教逐渐完全分离，美国社会也逐渐世俗化，许多民事长官并不是个基督徒，甚至是敌基督者，他不可能也不愿介入宗教事务，协调教会的冲突，解决教会的内部矛盾，于是一盘散沙的致命性就显示出来。由于没有权威的宗教会议，从清教中衍生出来的，浸信会、公理会等美国本土教派，只能通过一次次分裂，来解决教义、组织上的争端。无止境的分裂纷争使人心烦意乱，教会也永无安宁，甚至形成了这样一句美国谚语，“如同浸信会一般争吵”，于是人们渴望回归一种在权威下宁静的生活。对于这些，弗洛姆在《逃避自由》中深刻地指出，人们逃避自由，是因为已经厌倦了自由，人们感到自由给生活带来的好处，已经小于附带的烦扰。这也解释了天主教今天在美国蓬勃兴旺的原因，天主教为人们提供了一种权威，一种宁静的生活方式，而这些恰恰是任何新教派别所没有的。天主教会至今仍然坚持教皇圣喻无错论，也许很多人不解，可是教皇圣喻无错确实维护了教皇的权威，同样也维护了天主教世界的安宁。当然我个人认为教皇圣喻无错是极其荒唐的，可是人们最终还是不得不选择这种荒唐，只能说是一种极端无奈的行为，因为在路德之后新教的几百年实践中，人们一直无法在新教会中找到宁静与平和。为什么会这样呢？因为根据新教的教义，没有红衣主教、大主教、主教这样的等级制，也没有教皇这样的权力中心，确实很难形成权威，而且由于鼓励思想自由、良心自由，必然带来对《圣经》的不同理解，各种教义、组织上的争执，新教只能是无限地分裂。得出这样的结论确实无比的悲哀，可是这些已经是既成事实，谁也无法回避，只能去面对克服，总不能让基督教世界统一于天主教、教皇等级制。以我个人对圣经的理解，对天主教的等级制深不以为然，也不认同尘世的基督教，存在一个最高权威——教皇，任何一个所谓的最高权威都是危险的，因为无论任何人，人性都是贪婪堕落的，给予一个凡人最高的权威，将使世界处于极大的危险中。我认为新教独立、自由、平等的理念，才是人类的本质，也是人类的最终方向，我并不清楚耶稣会不会重返地球、完成大审判，但是我相信，人人平等、自由自在、幸福快乐地的生活，应该是人类社会的最终目标，而且我也相信，人类越趋近这个最终目标，重返天堂的可能性也就越大，因为越接近这个目标，人类也就越接近完成在地球上的炼狱。

可如何使各个新教派团结统一起来呢？根据人类的经验，能够让分散的新教派别，团结起来的方法只有一个，对抗共同的敌人——美国政府。如同圣经中的民长时期一般，只有当外敌入侵的时候，才能激发出民长这种领袖型的人物，带领大家团结一心战胜入侵者。各新教派别共同的敌人——美国政府，它不断地侵犯教会的传统领域、教会权利，也只有为了对抗这个共同敌人，才可能使各个新教派重新团结起来，而且也必须团结起来，产生一个个富有感染力、凝聚力的领袖，形成一个组织，一个对抗美国政府的权力中心，我们暂且称它为新教联合会。通过这个新教联合会，通过与美国政府这个共同敌人的战斗，重新凝结分散的兄弟之爱、兄弟之情，使新教会团结起来，而且永远地团结起来，美国政府永远都将存在，所以新教会与美国政府的抗争，也将永远存在。只有在共同的敌人面前，才可能尽量减少大家之间的纷争、争吵，能够使大家尽量取得共识，尽量有宁静、平和的生活，也尽量使社会更加美好。

同时这个新教联合会不应以讨论教义为目的，教义的讨论使共识永远无法形成，只能造成分裂，尘世中的我们，对圣经的理解只能以盲人摸象来形容，带着原罪、残缺的人类不可能完全理解，圣经的微言大义，我们如同盲人摸象一般，只能理解圣经的局部，所以新教联合会应当严禁讨论教义，它的目的应该很明确，就是抗争、战斗，就是夺回原本属于教会的权利，将美国政府的功能限制在最小的范围内，不仅仅为了基督新教会，更为了美国社会长期的稳定繁荣。新教联合会可以组织开展各种长期的活动，通过各种学术研讨会、法律途径、合法的集会、游行、布道、演讲等等，维护宪法的权威，捍卫宗教自由。抗争的最主要依据就是，以历史事实来解释宪法，捍卫宪法第一修正案赋予的宗教自由，而不是目前普遍的，以空洞、抽象的理性来解释宪法，这种做法实际上是在捏造、伪造宪法，宪法是建立在历史事实基础上的，所以必须以历史事实来解释，而不是以空洞抽象的理性来捏造伪造，这是极具理性、说服力的作法，相信经过长期的抗争，一定可以得到美国社会大多数人的支持。

在具体目标上，新教联合会无论如何必须使基督教会，重新获得监督美国政府的权力，这是基督教会其他权利能否得到保障的基础，同时必须取得婚姻、教育的主导权，一夫一妻、一男一女的婚姻、基督徒对孩子的教育权，这些都是神圣庄严的，也是圣经明确赋予基督徒的权利，每一个基督徒都必须以生命去捍卫，这些是绝对不能旁落的权利。其次为了每个基督徒的利益，也为了美国社会的稳定繁荣，基督教会同样必须取得，慈善福利、医疗事业的控制管理权，并且为了降低法律费用，建造一个真正公平公正的社会，力争司法权，建立基督教会的法律调解室，调解基督徒之间的经济纠纷等小案件，这也是极为可行的近期目标。通过这些也就可以完全限制，美国政府的权力，形成一种大社会、小政府的治理格局，尽量实现人人平等，使人类没有剥削，没有压迫，自由自在、幸福快乐地生活着，向人类的终极目标靠近

After the birth of Protestantism and the emergence of many new sects, the spiritual sword of God also dropped off. Each sect believed that they owned it, but no one really owned it in a status of disunity. The spiritual sword had lost its initial power and could not restrict the state. Hence, the state constantly eroded the rights originally belonging to the church and became a leviathan monster out of control.

Marriage was originally a sacrament in the Christian world, sacred and solemn because God says that after a man leaves his parents, he will bind with a woman, be loyal to each other, and never separate. In church, the pastor asked the man if he would marry a woman as his wife? Ask the woman if you would marry him as her husband? It’s a promise and oath under the witness of God. It’s incomparably hallowed and holy. Monogamy, one man and one woman, is the result of love given by God to humans. Humans also describe the sweetness and fragrance of love with voluminous poems. Marriage is the result of this sweet and fragrant love. The marriage of a man and a woman and monogamy is also the adoring of love and the glorifying of loyalty. A man and a woman, monogamous marriage is also necessary for the continuation of humans; in the harbor of love, the new generation grows up happily. A man and a woman, monogamous marriage is also the requirement of social stability. It is the most stable family structure compared with polygamy, with three wives and four concubines. There is no law to define marriage in human history. Marriage is originally a matter of religion and within the church’s jurisdiction. The sanctity of monogamous marriage is also a unique phenomenon in the Christian world. The marriage recognized by the non-Christian world is not only monogamy; they also recognize the marriage of a man having four wives or three wives and four concubines, and even countless concubines, which is normal in their eyes. However, the sacred and solemn sacraments in the Christian world have been easily overturned by five judges of the Federal Supreme Court of America today. These five judges replaced the Bible and redefined marriage. They extended marriage to homosexuality and easily reversed the word of God. What a trample on religious freedom! What an insult to Christians! And what contempt for the Bible! Although the Protestant church in the United States always quarreled and squabbled, at this time, they were as still as a mouse without a word and accepted mutely. We can see how far the American society has secularized and how far the church has shrunk. God’s spirit sword has been completely abandoned, and the Christian Church is powerless to fight back against the American government.

Lyndon Johnson’s act is another example of a serious violation of the rights of the Christian Church. According to this act, the US government can cancel the Christian Church’s tax exemption privilege to limit the church’s right to interfere in politics. As we have discussed before, the traditional two-headed snake-like separation of church and state in Christianity is the most stable and robust social structure. The state and the church supervise and support each other to make the society develop healthily, orderly, and speedily. In this structure, the state and the church have their own exclusive fields. Due to the restriction of the Bible and doctrines, the Christian Church rarely set foot in the military, police, prisons, and economy, these vital secular fields. Still, except these, other essential social functions such as charity, education, hospital, etc., are managed and handled by the church. We also know that for building the city of God, the Puritan church in Massachusetts also intervened in many secular affairs according to the two-headed snake-like separation of politics and religion. It was the mediation of the church among various political forces that maintained the stable order of the society. Otherwise, it would be impossible to build God’s city on the hill successfully, and it would not be possible to found the United States later. The church’s intervention in politics is not to participate in secular affairs but to play the role of the sword of the spirit, restrict the power of the secular government, and supervise the behavior of the secular government. Countless historical experiences have proved that only in this way can the secular government be guaranteed not to fall into the tyranny of dictatorship, oligarchy, and majority. At the very least, church interference in politics also protects the exclusive affairs of the church from the violation of the secular government. The reason is actually very simple. Suppose the church does not interfere in politics, how to determine the boundary between the church and the secular government, and how to prevent the rights of the church from being infringed by the secular government. In human history, religion has always been the most critical matter in life, and it has always entangled with secular government. It isn’t easy to separate them completely. Whether Christian society or other societies, the secular government has always made special preferential policies for religious affairs. Even in the Oriental secular society, the emperor often granted temples land for monks’ living and development expenses; all the lands were naturally tax-free. Christian countries naturally have such a tradition. The Bible clearly stipulates tithe tax, collected in Catholic countries before. After the Protestant reform, the tithe tax was gradually abolished. The American Protestant society that began in Massachusetts did not collect additional religious taxes. Instead, each church and parish raised their own living and development expenses; they had not burdened the secular government anything. This can be regarded as the least demanded church in history. In any case, the secular government would not levy any taxes from the church, but the Lyndon Johnson bill did. It can be seen how the Lyndon Johnson bill despised the most important matter in human life, how it regarded religion as nothing, how it violated the rights of the church, and how it trampled on the first amendment of the Constitution. However, this bill was passed in Congress, and the whole Christian Church had no means to hit back against such violations; they didn’t know how to protect themselves. It can be seen that the church in the United States had degenerated to an unbelievable level without any blood and iron; they were really like a flock of sheep. They could at least initiate legal proceedings till the Supreme Court. Even if they failed, they could also organize some demonstrations and protests as Martin Luther King did. No, nothing had done.

The church in the United States had done nothing; they gave up their right to restrict and supervise the secular government and lived a little life in an abundance of caution. Obviously, even if the separation of religion and politics is entirely complete, the church should consult with the state to define this separation line. The boundary can not be defined by the state alone, and the state can not own the final say, while the church has no say. The church can not interfere in politics and can not consult the separate line in the linden Johnson act of politics, which is extraordinarily unreasonable and brutal. As a result, the sword of God’s spirit completely disappeared, and the American government encroached upon the church at will. In addition to the right to marriage, the American government also took away many other social functions wantonly that initially belonged to the church, such as education, charity, hospital, etc.

The state has taken away education, this important function that originally belonged to the church. Of course, every Christian wants to teach children his religious experience to make them live merrily according to the Bible. No parents want their children to live in pain when they grow up. It is impossible to have such parents who let their children taste all the sufferings to realize by themselves that believing in Christ is the real meaning of life, which is a fact they have known for a long time. Every Christian parent wants their children to know this truth as soon as they are sensible. Every parent wants their children to be happy all the time. However, the United States, once a Christian country, in the name of public schools, uses Christian taxes to teach Christian children about homosexuality, the absurdity of God’s creation of man, the untrue content of the Bible, etc., now, which the Christian Church never accept. It is said that this is also “political correctness,” which gives children the right to choose their religion freely. This is the hypocrisy and hypocrisy of “political correctness” that I discussed in the previous chapter. In the second chapter of this book, I have repeatedly discussed human morality based on belief. I don’t know what religion allows believer’s children to choose their religion freely. No religion has such a doctrine. Only a hypocritical politician can put up such a statement, which proves once again that “political correctness” is also insincere and hypocritical, just empty and abstract concepts. This theory of allowing children to choose their religion freely is the same as the one parents know the excrements stink, but they still let children taste to see the fact. Humans are mysterious and magical beings. Humans simply can’t answer the question of where we come from and where we will die. Humans still have a very shallow understanding of life and themselves. It’s obvious that children’s growth is greatly affected by the environment. Do these so-called “politically correct” politicians allow their children to be taken away by cult gangs and let their children grow up in an evil environment? they can see what kind of their children will be when they grow up in that environment.

In the same way, why can’t Christian parents let their children accept the sweetness of the Christian Church and the greatness of the Bible? Why can’t their children accept this? Isn’t it ridiculous to have to hand them to an evil cult-like public school? Therefore, it is extremely vicious and evil for the secular government to deprive the right of the Christian Church and Christians of educating their children. However, no one in the Church of the United States has come out to fight and protest. It can be seen that the church of the United States is so weak that there is no dispensability. What a sad thing it is. We Don’t know what God thinks if he sees that in heaven; whether the fire of anger will be sprayed on the United States, let the United States accept a baptism of blood and fire.

The charity was voluntary in the Christian Church. In the two thousand years of the Christian Church’s history, there has never been any record of compulsory donation because it does not conform to the doctrine of the Bible. When charity is taken away by the state, it becomes law and a welfare system, which is actually a compulsory donation to others, whether in the name of tax or other ways. If this money can be used wherever necessary, it does not impact. But today, a lot of welfare in the United States is used for the lazy, the idle; it encourages the human’s evil habits of an easy life, which is contrary to the true welfare function and Christian charity. There are many reasons for many people suffering from poverty, and there are poor people even in the best system. Of course, poor people in the good system are different from those in the bad system. Many poor people under the bad system are Institutional Poverty. No matter how hard you work, you can’t get rich. And the poor in a good system is mostly due to their own reasons. Because of greed and degradation of human nature, their poverty is due to the greed and degradation of their human nature, loving leisure, and hating labor. If the poor suffer for their own reasons but think that the government welfare is taken for granted, then a vicious circle will be formed. Everyone waits for government relief, and no one wants to work hard nine-to-five. As discussed in the previous chapter, society will fall into the mire of high welfare. After the charity is taken away by the government, it becomes a matter of course. Unlike the original Christian Church, the church’s charity fund is donated by Christians voluntarily. When you receive charity, the church will try to enlighten you to become a Christian. Even if you can’t become a Christian, you will have Christian love. And Christianity itself has the function of Exhortation. They tell you that human nature is greedy and degenerate; everyone tends to love leisure and hate labor. Only through faith and through God can you be saved. You should not let yourself fall into greed and degeneration; you should be saved by yourself through God. More importantly, the church will also tell you that this charity is saved by brothers and sisters who pursue God’s real meaning; its purpose is to make everyone feel the love of God and the love of brothers. And the government relief is another pair of shoes; people receive welfare from the government department and leave off naturally. Charity reflects the love of brothers. And government relief is a compulsory donation; costing other’s property to embody politician generosity, at any rate, is to maintain social stability, a very realistic function.

Hospital is also a traditional function of the church. Once, the church hospital had blossomed everywhere, bringing great blessing and great welfare to humans. However, after the state took over the hospital, a high entry threshold was set on doctors’ qualifications and the hospital’s hardware. In addition, the expensive medical malpractice insurance made it difficult for people in the wealthy US to see a doctor. In fact, to treat some minor illnesses, there is no need for such a high entry threshold. The small outpatient clinics in the community can solve these minor illnesses nearby. It is unnecessary to go to the big hospital to have a comprehensive examination and wait in line. In this regard, I think the small community clinics in China are very merits, convenient and simple. In fact, most of the patients we suffer from are minor illnesses. It can be treated with a bit of medicine and a few bottles of drips at most. Why should we go to the big hospital to make a torment? And the church hospital has thousands of years of experience and can set its own standards. There is no need for the high entry threshold and low medical insurance premiums. Because of faith, believing God dwells three feet over our head , every church doctor will live up to the great trust of God, will do everything with conscience, and will treat every patient carefully. The amount of compensation after a medical accident is relatively low. Still, undoubtedly, it is a relief method for many poor who can not go to private hospitals in time and find it difficult to see doctors.

It should have been proper for the church court to merge into the secular court. After Protestant reform, there were many sects. Which is responsible for the church court is a problem? But now, the law system of the United States has gone to the other extreme. It has become an empire of lawyers that bear no relation to justice. The law is voluminous. Even lawyers have been divided into countless professional lawyers, let alone ordinary people. Obviously, this kind of legal system has reached a dead end, which is alien to common sense. It is becoming more and more out of touch with reality. It can only become a tool for the lawyer to make a fast buck. The poor dare not fight a lawsuit because they can’t afford the expensive lawyer fees, let alone fight with the rich. It is very realistic to mention the church court again at this time. Perhaps we can avoid the term “church court” not to give a sense of spiritual persecution. We can call it the church legal mediation room. Islam has done very well in this respect. They have many mediation rooms chaired by imams at the grassroots level, which resolve many small cases such as neighborhood disputes, ease social contradictions, and maintain social order with minimum cost. In the legal mediation room of the church, the plaintiff and the defendant face up to God and the Bible together and vow to act in the name of God with their own conscience as a guide. As for some small cases, such as neighborhood disputes and economic frictions, people try their best to compromise and give way to each other to simplify the matters, saving a lot of human resources and material resources, especially lawyers’ fees. If the church fails to mediate, it should be handed over to the secular court. I think that every devout Christian with brotherly love is willing to accept the church’s legal mediation room, where everyone can be the mutual honest treatment for the case, disputes should be solved well. Unlike in the secular court, everyone racks brains, making things more and more complicated; the cost is more and more expensive. Even the winner will get little after a lawsuit, let alone the loser.

How can we unite the various new sects? According to human experience, there is only one way to unite the scattered Protestant sects, resisting the common enemy, the US government. Just like in the Bible, only an invasion of foreign enemies can spark the birth of a civil chief uniting people to defeat the invaders. The United States government, the common enemy of all Protestant sects, has constantly infringed on the traditional fields and rights of the church. And only fighting against this common enemy can reunite all Protestant sects. And we must be united, must produce cohesive influential leaders to form an organization and a power center against the United States government. Let’s call it the Protestant Union for the moment. Through this Protestant Union and the fighting against the common enemy of the US government, the scattered brotherly love and brotherhood will be reconstituted, so the Protestant church can unite and unite forever. The US government will always exist, so the struggle between the Protestant church and the US government will also exist forever. Only in front of the common enemy can we try to reduce the disputes and quarrels between us, reach a consensus as far as possible, have a quiet and peaceful life as far as possible, and make the society better as far as possible.

At the same time, the Protestant Union should not discuss the doctrines. The discussion of doctrines will never form a consensus and only cause division. In this world, humans’ understanding of the Bible can only be described as blind people guessing the elephant. Because of original sin and deformity, humans can not fully understand the Bible; just like blind people touching the elephant, we can only understand parts of the Bible. Therefore, the Protestant Union should prohibit the discussion of doctrines. Its purpose should be clear, that is, to fight the government to the end, regain the rights originally belonging to the church, and limit the functions of the American government to the minimum. It is not only for the Protestant church but also for American society’s long-term stability and prosperity. The Protestant Union can organize various long-term activities to safeguard the authority of the Constitution and religious freedom through various academic seminars, legal channels, legal assemblies, processions, sermons, speeches, etc. The main basis for the struggle is to interpret the Constitution with historical facts and defend the religious freedom granted by the first amendment of the Constitution, objecting to the current general interpretation of the Constitution in empty and abstract rationality, which is actually fabricating and forging the Constitution. The Constitution is based on historical facts, so it must be interpreted with historical facts; it is a very rational and persuasive method. I believe that after a long period of struggle, we can get the support of most Americans.

In the specific targets, the Protestant union must, in any case, regain the power to supervise the American government, which guarantees the rights of the Christian Church. At the same time, it must obtain the dominating power of marriage and education, monogamy, the marriage of a man and a woman, and Christians’ right to educate their children. All these are sacred and solemn; It is also the rights the Bible gives to Christians clearly. Every Christian must defend them with his life. These are rights that can never be ignored. Secondly, on behalf of every Christian and for the stability and prosperity of American society, the Christian Church must also obtain the control and management of charitable welfare and medical services. And to reduce legal costs, build a really fair and just society, struggle for judicial power, establish a legal mediation room of the Christian Church, and mediate small cases such as economic disputes among Christians. This is also a very feasible short-term goal. Through these, we can completely limit the power of the American government, form a governance pattern of big society and small government, and try our best to realize equality for all, so that human beings can live freely and happily without exploitation and oppression and approach the ultimate goal of human beings

So people are eager to return to a quiet life under authority. For these, Fromm points out deeply in escape freedom that people escape freedom because they are tired of freedom, and people feel that the benefits of freedom to life are less than the accompanying annoyance. This also explains why Catholicism is thriving in the United States today, which provides people with an authority, a peaceful way of life, which is exactly what no Protestant faction has. The Catholic Church still insists on the theory of “the Pope” and many people may not understand it. But it does maintain the authority of the Pope and the peace of the Catholic world. Of course, I personally think that Pope metaphor is extremely absurd, but people have to choose this kind of absurd, which can only be said to be an extremely helpless behavior, because in the hundreds of years of practice of Protestantism after Luther, people have been unable to find peace and peace in the new church. Why is that? Because according to the Protestant doctrine, there is no hierarchy of cardinal, archbishop and bishop, and there is no power center like Pope, which is really difficult to form authority. Moreover, it is inevitable that the new religion can be divided indefinitely due to the encouragement of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience, which inevitably leads to different understanding of the Bible, and disputes in various doctrines and organizations. It is indeed a sad conclusion, but these are already facts, and no one can avoid it. We can only face the overcoming and never let the Christian world unify in the Catholic and Pope hierarchy. With my personal understanding of the Bible, I do not think deeply about the Catholic hierarchy, nor agree with the world of Christianity. There is a supreme authority – Pope, any so-called supreme authority is dangerous, because no matter who is greedy and degenerated, giving the highest authority to all people will put the world in great danger. I think the idea of Protestantism independence, freedom and equality is the essence of human beings and the ultimate direction of mankind.