Historical vlog on Chinese faithfrom @imyoyoyue

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Didn't China create a worse religion like Christianity, Islam, or Hinduism? And what happened three thousand years ago that made Chinese stop believing Good? Faith in China versus faith in The US. What's the difference? Welcome back to Between Two Worlds. If you're trying to understand China beyond the headlines, where you live between cultures like I do, this series is for you. In episode seven, we talked China, people tell gods what to do. But ancient China was actually terrifyingly religious, around 1,600 to 1,000, during the Shang Dynasty, before the Greeks entered their classical era. Chinese kings were ruling through fear and blood sacrifice. The king consulted gods for everything, war, weather, harvest, even toothache. Archaeologists uncovered massive sacrificial pits filled with prisoners, slaves, and civilians killed to please heaven and good. If history continued like this, China may have evolved into a brutal theocratic civilization built around blood sacrifice. But then something changed. In October, the Zhou defeated the Shang. And this was not just a political revolution. It was a philosophical one. Because the Zhou faced a tough question. If the Shang kings ruled because heaven chose them, then why did heaven allow them to lose? And how do we justify this new rule? So tier Zhou introduced something radically different, the mandate of heaven. A political philosophy that said a ruler's authority came from heaven, but only if they ruled with virtue. It had four core ideas. Worse, the emperor.