Unlike the Adventists, Redemptionists believe that humanity can be improved—but that in order to do so, humans need to learn from the superior Trisolaran civilization. To the Redemptionists, the creatures of Trisolaris are a kind of god (whom they call the Lord), and any message from these creatures is treated as a religious text. Unlike the Adventists, the Redemptionists (most prominently physicist Shen Yufei) want humans to solve the three-body problem so that the Trisolarans can still have a home on their own planet.
Redemptionists Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Redemptionists or refer to Redemptionists. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 21
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“I'm Raphael, from Israel. Three years ago, my fourteen-year-old son died in an accident. I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace. For this ideal, I was willing to give my life. Many, many Israelis and Palestinians sincerely strove toward the same goal by my side. But all this was useless. Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance. Eventually, I lost hope in the human race and joined the ETO. Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.”
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Redemptionists Term Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the term Redemptionists appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 16. The Three-Body Problem
...They had spoken of warring sides in a conflict; they mentioned the Adventists and the Redemptionists, and though both groups wanted to bring the Lord to earth, each group had a...
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Chapter 21. Rebels of Earth
...voices break out, calling for different next steps and again using those words “Adventist” and “Redemptionist.” Just as Pan is about to call for Three Body believers to incite a global...
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...to panic, Ye calmly berates him for killing Shen Yufei simply because she was a Redemptionist. Before Pan can run, one of Ye’s henchwomen snaps his neck; his body spasms and...
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Chapter 29. The Earth-Trisolaris Movement
Within the group, there were two main factions: Adventists and Redemptionists. The Adventists hated humanity so thoroughly (due to wealth inequality, environmental destruction, and war, among...
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The Three Body game was the main way in which the Redemptionist faction of the ETO spread knowledge of the Trisolarans to earth. Using recognizably human figures...
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The Adventists and the Redemptionists were always in intense conflict, as the Redemptionists believed that humans and Trisolarans should coexist....
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Chapter 30. Two Protons
...Trisolarans stopped. Ye, who does not identify as either a hateful Adventist or a religious Redemptionist, reflects: “I started the fire, but I couldn’t control how it burnt.”
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...would mean losing the Trisolaran messages inside of it. This would be devastating for the Redemptionists, because those messages were a religious text. Destroying the ship would also pose a strategic...
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