What this film wants to convey is everyone's choice when religious beliefs conflict with individual rights. This problem has existed in ancient and modern China and abroad. Thousands of years ago and thousands of years later, as long as religion does not die out, it will always exist.
Unfortunately, religion will not die.
The film is about a small town controlled by Mormons at the foot of Mount Zion near Springdale, Utah, in the southwestern United States. The characteristic of Mormonism is that they have their own prophets, who can not only convey teachings, but also order believers to do anything they don't want to do, including weddings, funerals and deaths. Another feature of Mormonism is its support for polygamy. In this small town, men have 20 to 50 wives, and even if they are white-haired, they can marry a little girl of 14 years old. All this requires only a word from the prophet, and women need unconditional obedience.
In the movie, the hero's father died and his mother was accused of murder. He tried to find evidence to prove that his father's nineteenth wife, that is, his mother, did not kill anyone, and finally found the murderer in the struggle with the prophet, but unfortunately, he failed to bring the prophet to justice.
In this process, we saw everyone's struggle. My mother knew she was innocent, but in order to save the prophet's reputation, she confessed. The heroine wants to protect the family, but the family is broken by the prophet; The hero's half-sister wants to save her mother and take her away, but the 23rd mother is loyal to her faith and happily marries the prophet with other sisters after her husband's death ...... The goodness and evil of human nature even disappear in this movie, leaving only stupid beliefs and the right of terror.
I remember a scene in the film where the heroine looked at the prophet with hatred eyes, and the prophet walked past her with a contemptuous smile, while all the men and women followed the prophet through the heroine one by one, leaving only the heroine standing in the same place, disappointed but not giving up. I remembered a sentence-although there are thousands of people, I will go.
Sure enough, in the end, the heroine devoted herself to the speeches in various States to publicize the harm of polygamy. Although she can't stop the development of Mormonism, at last someone is willing to do something.
This movie gave me a lot of thought. When people's basic rights cannot be guaranteed in the face of powerful religion and invincible evil, most people choose to obey. Obedience means preservation, and obedience means that you become a vested interest and may oppress others. In the film, the prophet holds welfare securities, the underground is dark, and the hero's father is killed while fighting for the position of prophet, which shows that obedience is far more beneficial than resistance-at least in the eyes of obedient people. In addition to interests, spiritual power is more powerful. How can a woman in her fifties be willing to marry an old man? How did their parents agree to let their daughter and so many women be wives? When the prophet said to them, "You can't go to heaven unless you marry him," he shed tears of fear and became a vassal of Nuo Nuo. Why? In a word, the greatness of religion lies not in how real it is, but in the education instilled from childhood. In short, it is brainwashing!
Suddenly found that the essence of religion and pyramid selling is the same, pyramid selling was born out of religion.
The first MLM organization in the world should be Mormonism; Its inventor was the vice president of a university in Utah during the Kennedy era, and his theory led to the emergence of Mormonism. For the political and economic interests of the leader, Mormons carry out pyramid schemes everywhere; As a result, for the first time in the world, pyramid schemes using family ties began. After China's reform and opening-up, some people in Taiwan Province and Hongkong saw the way to get rich from Mormonism. So I picked up the mantle of Mormonism and conducted pyramid schemes in the mainland. Now, Mormonism and pyramid selling are consistent, so we might as well look at the essence of Mormonism from pyramid selling in turn.
Another feature of Mormonism is "Eleventh Dedication". "Eleventh Dedication" means that every believer should regularly donate one tenth of his salary, that is, 65,438+00%, to the church, which will make overall management for the maintenance and development of the church. Therefore, Mormonism has become one of the richest churches in the world. On the other hand, we look at pyramid schemes. After being cheated into a MLM organization, the MLM organization requires to pay a membership fee or a product purchase fee, which is usually more than 3,000 to 10000. The lower-level personnel are handed over to the upper level, and the upper level is handed over to the highest level. All the property falls into the hands of the top, and the people at the bottom can't make money, and the top has become a wealth accumulator.
The "polygamy" of Mormonism has the same roots as the "paternalism" in pyramid schemes. In the MLM organization, women should provide men with foot washing water, towels and shoes, unconditionally and willingly. Basically, cleaning, cooking and washing clothes are all done by women, and men can boss them around. Moreover, in the games that pyramid sellers like to play, there are often punishments such as "men kiss women" and "women kiss men", and men can sleep with female pyramid sellers. This is a common fact in many pyramid schemes-it is easy for women to fall in love with men taller than her, and there is often a situation of "matchmaking" in pyramid schemes. The leader said that whoever deserves can be together. This is very similar to the phenomenon that the prophet in Mormonism decided to marry a female believer. Some time ago, it was reported that there was a man in America who had 78 sex slaves, and that man was a Mormon.
The doctrine of Mormonism is to believe in the eternal God in order to enter heaven. Missionaries constantly instill the goal of heaven and the sanctity of doctrine, which makes believers extremely pious and absolutely convinced. Let's take a look at pyramid schemes. The method used in the brainwashing process of pyramid selling is nothing more than two points: 1, believing that you will succeed and make money; What I do is an extremely sacred and glorious cause. The brainwashing process of MLM personnel can completely change the previous thoughts in just five days. The MLM team has a set of extremely complete and rigorous methods. It only takes five days to brainwash a person, so that he is undoubtedly passionate about what he is doing.
Mormonism stipulates that every adult Mormon, aged between 18-22, has the obligation to preach for the church for two years at his own expense, which is the legendary "missionary". Although the missionary sites are all over the world (except Chinese mainland ...), Christians can't choose their own places, but they are all designated by the church. During the missionary period, all the food, clothing, housing and transportation are at their own expense, and the church is only responsible for contacting accommodation and providing temporary transportation. The most basic routine of pyramid selling is to attract attractive, attractive good friends and attractive parents and relatives. Before you pull someone, you will have a meeting one week in advance to study this person's hobbies and thinking habits. After you determine the person, you will cheat them, entertain them with delicious food, and coax countless lies and take them to brainwash them. The missionary work of the church is very similar to pyramid selling. The staff of the church will say that their religion is sacred and beautiful, and how many benefits will it have after believing it; And MLM staff will say how successful and happy their work is and how good their future is after joining. ......
I have seen the behavior of MLM organizations with my own eyes-they like to get together to play cards and games, tell jokes and guess riddles, and everyone is extremely enthusiastic and smiles at you, making you feel like you have entered a big family. This is very similar to the meaning of religious gathering. But pyramid schemes put food in the main place when eating, but no one will eat it. They are not allowed to talk about it. In fact, they are making sacrifices for future leaders. This is completely in line with the religious worship of God.
As far as pyramid selling is concerned, the essence of Mormonism is exposed. But can we say that all religions in the world are similar to pyramid schemes? Not necessarily. The ultimate goal of pyramid selling is to collect money. When a religion does not collect money and does not interfere with the interests of believers, it has already been cleaned out of pyramid schemes. Perhaps it can be said that pyramid selling is a branch of religion, which has gradually taken profit as its purpose and lost its sacred coat. In other branches of religion, some are more and more like pyramid schemes, while others are farther and farther away.
Let's talk about the cult affiliation of Mormonism first. Mormonism is not a cult in the United States, because it does nothing against the United States, but the American government and media are constantly blackening Mormonism. However, this sect is very powerful in American political parties and attracted by polygamy and the accumulation of wealth at the top of power, so its number is still increasing. Christians naturally admit that they are not pagans, but their Book of Mormon has long been inspired by Satan, which is not allowed by Protestantism.
Mormonism has never been recognized by Chinese mainland for the simple reason that polygamy is obviously illegal. How can the mainland tolerate it? However, Chinese mainland did not consider Mormonism as a cult. Why? It is worthy of further study.
Salt Lake City is a city founded by Mormons. At present, more than half of the local people are believers, making Salt Lake City the largest city with the lowest divorce rate in the United States. Do they really want a divorce? No, in the movie, a Mormon wants to divorce her husband. The whole town men came to her door with torches, shouting "heretics" and throwing things into the glass. She had to get into a carriage and run away in a hurry in the flames. Cang Yue once said in the Mirror: "When God can't do anything, there is only magic through all beings". How many women in this city can't stand it but have to endure it before they can enter the prophet's paradise? I don't know, but I don't know if there is a God. I can definitely answer yes. It lives in everyone's heart. Thanks for reading!