A student testimony Jiang allows into the record is that mathematical beauty and symmetry moved someone from atheism toward religion, showing that number and design can indeed carry spiritual pressure.
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Atheism
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One student says the text has reactivated the question of God even without producing full doctrinal belief.
Even atheistic modern people remain religious in Jiang’s broad sense because they worship money, materialism, and science.
Jiang says his recent study of eschatology, Kabbalah, and geopolitics has moved him from lifelong atheism toward a Gnostic framework without a single religious loyalty.
Alexander defines Marxism as a materialistic ideology that denies the supernatural and ultimately God, which is why he says a person cannot coherently be both a true Marxist and a Muslim at the same time.
Jiang argues that China has been anti-religious for roughly two millennia, which weakens its soft power because it does not understand humanity's drive toward spiritual fulfillment.
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"...Without understanding all these designs. So that's how he moved from atheism to religion."
"Yeah, kind of. I kind of felt the same, because I dreamed, like, a lot more frequently for these few days. And also, like,..."
"Yeah. So for most of my life, I'm atheist. China is an atheist society. I didn't grow up with any religious tradition. And quite..."
"materialistic uh um um um um materialistic uh um um materialistic uh um um materialistic uh um um um ideology that denies the existence..."
"communists anyway i can deliver an absolute fact that uh their perspective is a purely and"
"Right. So religions don't require temples. Religion is just collective belief. So as I say, as I keep on saying in this class, all..."
"Yeah. So I think China, the best analogy for China is maybe ancient Egypt. It's really a plantation economy, meaning that you have a..."
"And that's good. We go to Africa. We bribe the elite. They're happy. And China doesn't really understand that as humans, we strive for..."
"...different traditions, but we consider the modernity to be absolutely wrong. Atheism, imperialism, progressism, enlightenment, all that things are totally evil. But trying to..."
"...were pagan barbarians, we became Christians, and then finally we reached atheism."
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