Chapter 156 When the poor are insulted, they have to apologize!
The visible boundary separates the upper city and the lower city, and the invisible boundary separates the laborers and craftsmen.
Just like a coincidence, Catholicism also divides the world after death into three directions: heaven, purgatory and hell.
The inhabitants of hell endure fire, loneliness and mental torture. They are eternally separated from God and have no hope of heaven.
Bishop Amedee, a man of such high position and authority, who lived in the upper town, was a resident of heaven, enjoying the divine light.
However, for the sake of the survival of heaven, he crossed two boundaries and went straight to the hell that he could not avoid.
What do the words he said mean to these residents of the abyss?
It's full of garbage...
But he had to come, because in Karak City, a city with nearly 6,000 people, the upper city has a population of less than 1,000 people, and the families of craftsmen have less than 2,000 people. More than half of the population gathers here. In the corner of the city.
However, this is an area that has been ignored and treated as if it does not exist.
It's full of garbage...
Bishop Amedei continued to preach. He tried to inspire these people to have faith in the Lord through his exquisite and touching theological skills.
He told the residents here that sins would be forgiven, the body would be resurrected, and anyone could look forward to life in the next life.
Finally, someone in these garbage heaps responded to Bishop Amedei's words, and the silence was no longer dead.
"But what does that have to do with us?"
"You ask someone who has nothing to defend someone who has everything?"
The world came to life, but this kind of words was not what Bishop Amedei wanted to hear. He was even afraid of it.
When he turned his eyes to the direction of the sound, he saw the man wearing a hood and standing up from the simple and dilapidated bench.
Amedei thought the man's voice sounded familiar, and his figure was stronger than the people next to him. He seemed out of place in this neighborhood, but was accepted by the people around him.
When the man said: [You let those who have nothing to defend those who have everything], the crowd in the church became commotion. They spoke to each other, seeming to express their dissatisfaction with the residents of heaven asking for help.
Bishop Amedei coughed twice and motioned for everyone in the church to be quiet, but no one cared.
He had to continue loudly: "I will persuade the wealthy businessmen to donate a large amount of coins. Every soldier who stands on the city wall will receive at least 3 silver dirhams every day!"
3 silver dirhams is already quite a high price. Most of the residents here, those who can sell their labor, will take a week to earn 3 silver dirhams.
In the past, as long as you shouted out the price for any job, countless people would flock to it.
"Those rich people are not without mercy, they also have charity and kindness."
"Now, the kingdom's army is invincible. When reinforcements arrive in the future, the siege will be lifted, and all those who died in the battle will go to heaven!"
Amedei's pale words were meaningless, and the promises he made seemed empty...
So the man who stood up in the audience turned around and made a gesture to all the poor people present, which was a sign to dismiss the audience.
Without relying on words, just a movement, the people in the church stood up together, not caring about the gloomy look of Bishop Amedei on the stage, and walked out of the church together, ending this meaningless sermon.
Compared to the bishop on the stage who had not set foot in this church for more than a year, Garris had only been here for three weeks, but he had already shown his charm and strength.
When all the believers dispersed, only Bishop Améde, Father Antoine, and the inexplicable hooded man were left in the church, plus a few guards brought by the bishop and people who helped hold the ceremonial guard. of deacons.
For a time, the originally small church seemed empty due to the sparse number of people.
Only then did Bishop Amedei recognize the identity of the man who was against him.
The angry bishop walked up to Gairis and asked loudly: "Garis, why are you here!"
Garris naturally lifted his hood, revealing a face that was familiar to everyone present. "Master Bishop, why can't I appear here?"
"Nowadays, you are lacking knights with rich military experience to help you defend the city, aren't you?"
The bishop was still angry, but he also had to admit that what Garris told the truth was that Leonard took away all the knights from Fort Karak. He could currently mobilize only 150 city guards, plus the 200 he had found before. Volunteers, 350 in total.
Among these people, there is not a single knight, and many of them have never even picked up a weapon. The appearance of Garris at least means that he can provide certain military guidance and help the city with defense work.
But this only made Bishop Amedei even more angry, because not only did Gairis not play a positive role before, but he even ruined it on the spot!
Facing the bishop's question, Garris sat back on the bench easily and casually.
"My Lord Bishop, do you really think it is appropriate for people who have nothing to defend those who have everything? Will those rich people take up arms and walk on the city wall together?"
"How long has it been since you've been here? You usually don't care about it, but when you need to die, you remember that Karak City is not just the upper city, there is another half that you have ignored!"
"Is it appropriate? I don't think it is appropriate."
Garris' slightly lazy words made it difficult for Amedet to answer. He turned around and asked Father Antoine directly.
"Antoine, what's going on! I'm the bishop here! Why don't you tell me anything!"
Antoine, a young priest, only twenty-six years old, tilted his head, looked at the guards behind the bishop, and replied.
"Yes, you are the bishop here, but when you come here, you have to bring guards with you and let them help you clear the way with halberds. It's so majestic."
Amedei's face turned ugly again, as he recalled why his previous sermon had no effect.
Garris couldn't help but chuckle a few times, yawned in front of Bishop Amedei, and lay down on the bench casually like those homeless people on the street.
He held his arms to support his head, tilting his head to look at Amedei.
The robes on his body were shabby and shabby, and the bishop's vestments were so gorgeous that one dared not look directly at them.
"How can an earthen pot and an iron pot meet? When the iron pot touches the earthen pot, the earthen pot will break."
"A rich person gets angry when someone is insulted; a poor person has to apologize to others when he is insulted!"
"If you are useful to him, he will use you; if you have nothing, he will abandon you."
"If you are rich, he will get along with you, even if he uses up your wealth, he will not regret it."
"When he needs you, he will deceive you, smile at you, make you believe him, and talk nonsense to you: What do you lack?"
"After he repeatedly exploits you, he will humiliate you with his food, and finally laugh at you; from then on, whenever he sees you, he will avoid you and shake his head at you."
There was a hint of teasing in Garris's lazy words, and as he recited the scriptures, Bishop Amedei's face turned completely dark.
The bishop lost completely. The residents of heaven asked the garbage in hell for help. This was a joke from the beginning.
"Jesus ben Sira was indeed a wise man. The Jews 1,300 years ago had already understood many things in human society. I never tire of reading "The Wisdom of Ben Sira"... ”
"Ben Sirah Wisdom" or "Sira Book", translated by Catholics as "Moral Teachings", is part of the "Old Testament" of Catholic and Orthodox churches. In most Protestant denominations, it is treated as an apocryphal book and has never been included. into their Old and New Testaments.
The Wisdom of Ben Sirah, or the Doctrine of Virtue, is a book of wisdom in the Bible, which contains doctrines about interpersonal relationships that are applicable to almost any situation.
These words quoted by Guerris dealt a severe blow to Bishop Amedeh.
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