How will Catholicism go to fortune telling _ Consequences of Catholic fortune telling

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Case 1

"Drinking mung bean soup before 0/2 o'clock in the evening of a month can avoid disaster", and it was said by a newborn baby. It is such a childish and ridiculous rumor that many people believe it, get up in the middle of the night to drink mung bean soup, and call relatives and friends to say. Along with this rumor spread throughout many provinces, there are also "magic water" to prevent SARS, firecrackers to drive away SARS and so on.

At a time when we are fighting against SARS at all levels, some feudal superstitious activities have taken the opportunity to rise and confuse people, causing very bad influence in society. Although governments at all levels have tried their best to take various preventive, control and treatment measures, and various news media have also reported SARS incisively and vividly, why do people always listen to these completely nonsense rumors and are willing to be deceived? In the face of the sudden disaster of SARS, it is understandable that people are anxious to guard against it because of panic. However, if they are indiscriminate, listening to the wind is rain, and even being bewitched by various feudal superstitions, the result will only be some stupid things that deceive themselves and even harm others. "Right and wrong are always there, not listening to nature." In fact, as long as the masses carefully scrutinize it, they will find that these rumors are really ridiculous. If it is so simple to prevent SARS, why should our country pay so much money, manpower and even life to fight a people's war?

Ignorance and superstition can't prevent diseases, only science is the weapon to defeat SARS. Without the great attention and correct decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the meticulous medical care and selfless dedication of the broad masses of medical workers fighting in the front line of SARS prevention and control, the unity of the broad masses of cadres and the masses, feudal superstitions and mental self-paralysis, fighting against SARS is tantamount to doing nothing, and the consequences are unimaginable. Only by relying on science can people embark on one disease after another. Major epidemics such as plague, cholera and tuberculosis were also considered incurable in those years. After long-term efforts, these diseases were finally conquered by medicine. In just a few months, we not only found coronavirus with pathogen variation, but also deciphered the genetic code of SARS virus, and made great progress in the research of drugs and vaccines. All these show that people have a deeper understanding of SARS and can finally overcome and eliminate it. And all this depends on and wields the powerful power of science.

Superstition is useless, science increases self-confidence. The resurgence of feudal superstition and making waves have also given us a warning: it is an important task at present to popularize the scientific knowledge of SARS prevention and control to the masses. On the one hand, it is necessary to adopt various propaganda means and practical and effective methods to vigorously carry out popular science activities for the prevention and treatment of SARS, and popularize and disseminate relevant knowledge about the pathogenesis, prevention methods, transmission routes and treatment methods of SARS to the whole society as soon as possible. Let the knowledge and methods of scientific prevention and treatment of SARS enter the family as soon as possible and be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. On the other hand, in the long run, improving people's cultural knowledge level is the ultimate way to put an end to feudal superstition.

Case 2

Superstition is easy to deceive. Fortune telling is not only misleading and deceptive, but also harmful to physical and mental health. On September 2, 1997, Anhui Science and Technology reported: "The fortune teller spent money to' break' the disaster, but he was still worried and uneasy. I don't know if it can be avoided. They are nervous, can't sleep at night, are depressed, and lose their appetite one by one. Over time, they will definitely cause autonomic nerve dysfunction and cause diseases. "

If you believe that a situation is true (in fact, it is false), then its consequences are true, that is, it has brought negative effects on people, affected their own lives, and also affected other people's views. Superstition is like this. If you believe it, you will have it. If you don't believe it, you will. The so-called belief is there, not that it really exists, but that it exists in my heart and seems to have its shadow in my life. A person listened to the eight-character theory. This will bind him all his life. No matter what happens in his later life, he will be associated with these eight characters and will never forget them. However, in real life, there are so many unpleasant things as meaning, so that one ring is buckled, and the set is tighter and tighter, and finally it becomes an incomprehensible knot, which is really suspicious. Therefore, this vicious circle has begun or not ended, and it is easier to carry the burden on your back than to put it down. The harm of eight-character letters is deep and heavy, too much.

Catholicism is a religious belief and an active lifestyle, and fortune-telling is a recognized superstition. No matter how long the history of fortune telling is, how wide its scope is and how many followers there are, it is bound to be wrong. It is wrong to attribute things or experiences to creation, not to God with infinite wisdom. We believe that an omnipotent, all-knowing and all-good God is enough, and there is no need to look for hope outside God. Therefore, we are firmly opposed to telling fortune. Because only God knows the future, but he will never reveal his future plans to people in a boring and stupid way. Not only Catholicism holds this view, but other religions also hold the same or similar positions. For example, the "righteous destiny" in the Eighth Route of Buddhism requires people to have a reasonable means of making a living, stay away from unfair occupations, oppose astrology and sign divination (the same is true for physiognomy, because although Buddhism has the saying of "establishing a career", it also affirms that "the heart can establish a career" and "the heart can change careers"). Now these superstitious phenomena in Buddhism, such as fortune telling, are all manifestations of its psychological compromise with China people. It can be seen that people with clear religious beliefs still have a lot in common on important issues in life.

Case 3:

Can fortune tellers really use birthdays to calculate people's fate and future marriage? As we all know, now everyone's birth time is expressed by year, month, day and hour, but in the past, we used heavenly stems and earthly branches in China (it is said that heavenly stems and earthly branches's original intention was taken from trees, that is, heavenly stems and earthly branches is equivalent to trunk branches, which is an interdependent and complementary whole. In ancient China, heaven was the "master" and the earth was the "slave". God does it, and the earth follows it. Heaven and earth become heavenly stems and earthly branches. In ancient China, Chinese characters (that is, sixty flowers) were used to represent years, not numbers. This is unique in the world calendar. From Yuan and Er years in the Eastern Han Dynasty (85), the flower cycle has exceeded 32 cycles. Heavenly stems are divided into "ten stems", followed by A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. Among them, odd numbers are positive, indicating yang dryness, and even numbers are negative, indicating yin dryness. There are twelve earthly branches, which are Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, E, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai in turn. Among them, the odd number is masculine, the even number is feminine, and it is feminine. Match the heavenly stems with the earthly branches, and take out a word from the "A" in the heavenly stems and a word from the "Zi" in the earthly branches. The male stem is matched with the male branch, and the penis is matched with the female branch, forming "Jia Zi", "Ugliness" and "C Yin". This can always be matched into 60 pairs of non-repetitive samples with a period of 60 years, commonly known as "Jiayin". This is the same as 10 on February 5, 2002 that we are using now. There are two words in each column, and there are exactly eight words in four columns, which are called "eight characters", also called "birth" or "hair root eight characters" For example, if someone was born at 4: 00 p.m. on February 2nd, 1962, his horoscopes are Renyin (year column), Guichou (moon column), Gengzi (sun column) and Shen Jia (time column) (it can be seen that people use 60 jiazi to indicate a person's birth time).

It should be pointed out that birth is not absolute, but just an accidental phenomenon. As we all know, there is a certain time difference between the eastern and western hemispheres of the earth where we live, so if babies born at the same time are born in two hemispheres, the difference between them is one day. In this way, the date of birth, which should be the same in time, has changed due to different regions, and the constellations are of course different.

Of course, heavenly stems and earthly branches method is an effective punctuality method. The problem is that fortune tellers mix different birth dates with people's life, good or bad (fortune telling, also known as "criticizing eight characters", is to beat around the bush on the fortune teller's birth date), and make up a series of mysterious "theories" to deceive people. For example, if the eight characters are combined with the "five elements theory" of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, there will be a saying that "the five elements are mutually reinforcing" (the "Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory" was formed at the weekend of the Warring States Period, which was a theory about the formation of the universe at that time and later developed into a basic principle guiding human behavior. From politics, military, agriculture, astronomical calendar, and even religion, ethics, art, etc. Nothing is not related to the theory of yin-yang and five elements. The five elements (lines) have the meaning of movement and change, and the five elements refer to the changes, movements and laws of five substances. Ancient philosophers in China divided the nature of all things in nature into five categories, namely, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, as the basis of the changes of all things in the universe and various natural phenomena, and as a way to explain the origin of all things in the world. Further concrete extension, these five elements form five stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the sky, which are also called five latitudes and five nights. On the ground, there are five substances of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which means that one substance can promote the growth of another, that is, the relationship of mutual growth. That is, wood fires, fire produces soil, soil produces gold, and gold produces water, aquatic wood. The coexistence of five elements means that one substance has the function of inhibiting and restraining (repelling) another substance, that is, the relationship of mutual containment. It is fire and water, fire and gold, Jin Mu, civil engineering and water and soil. For example, a constellation belongs to "life fire", a constellation belongs to "wood life", and "fire" means "wood". People with "life fire" can't work with people with "wood life", let alone get married.