Chapter 166 Father! I sold innocent blood!
"Asshole! Damn it! You're not even afraid of us anymore. This is no longer an ordinary rebel bandit. You must hit hard!"
Still in the reception room of Etienne's mansion, Etienne groaned and asked someone to apply medicine for him.
This medicinal wine comes from an Arab doctor. Needless to say, it is quite effective.
Several other congressmen also looked solemn.
It was still the congressman with the long beard. He said: "Etienne, what you mentioned earlier, I think it will work."
"I spoke to Stephanie in the afternoon."
"As soon as that woman mentioned Garris, she got so angry that she flew into a rage. It can be said that she is on our side."
"Nowadays, the only person who really supports Garris is the old stubborn Amedeh."
Councilors reached a consensus.
This was another middle-aged congressman who took over the conversation.
"I have contacted a broker here. The guy asked for a total of 200 gold dinars, and 100 should be paid in advance."
As soon as he finished speaking, Etienne yelled out viciously.
"I'll pay 50! In the name of the Lord, I swear that I will fight him until death!"
Immediately afterwards, Etienne cursed Garris in various ways in the name of God.
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[For this is what the LORD Almighty says: Cut down trees and build forts against Jerusalem. This is the city worthy of punishment, full of oppression.]
"As the well gushes out water, so this city gushes out evil; violence and destruction are often heard in it, and sickness and injury are always before me. 】
——"Jeremiah" 6:6-7
Another sermon was over. Today, Garris will conduct a sermon every day. The location is not fixed, and he tries to take care of everyone in the city.
For people in the city, being under siege is not the norm after all.
It's like the sword of Damocles, hanging above your head, and you don't know when it will fall.
And in these days, Adil's army has been testing and attacking again and again, giving invisible oppression to the residents of the city.
The scale of those attacks was not large, but every time the alarm bell sounded, the citizens in the city felt as if they had been abandoned by God.
At such times, only Garris stood up again and again to preach to the residents of the city.
Tell these residents: God has not abandoned them. As long as they can sincerely repent and make amends, the city will be relieved from the siege soon.
To be honest, Gareth was actually in no rush to make a rescue.
The more desperate the situation becomes, the more the person who falls into the water will grasp at the straw.
However, Garris did not just hand over a straw, but jumped into the river himself and pulled those who fell into the water to the shore.
Because of this, the content of his sermons became more and more popular.
[The Lord once said: "There are poor people in the world because there are rich people; there are rich people because there are poor people."]
[The wealth of the rich is taken from the suffering of the poor, just like the roots of a towering tree are deeply rooted in the withering of the poor. 】
[The freedom of the few comes from the enslavement of the majority. This freedom is a blasphemy against justice before the Lord. 】
[A poor country is a true reflection of a rich country. The hunger and distorted faces of the poor are exactly the sins of the rich. 】
[Civilization has oppressed countless people into inhuman conditions, destroyed their lives like a hurricane, and crucified people like Jesus. 】
[The faces of the people are like the image of the world that has rejected the Lord, and their groans are witnesses of the sin of the world. 】
[The rich abandon the poor of today to death just as they abandoned Christ back then. 】
[Main text: "Anyone who abandons the poor is abandoning me; anyone who despises suffering is also despising me."]
[The glory and eternal life of the Kingdom of Heaven are given to the poor, to the mournful, to the hungry and thirsty... but not to the proud. If the freedom of the rich is built on the suffering of others, the Lord will tear down their glory and cause their honor to dissipate like dust! 】
——Excerpt from the second volume of "The Words of Galis". It was because there were so many sinful and wicked people in this city that it was besieged by a large army.
Although Garris did not express this statement explicitly, many citizens subconsciously agreed with it.
During these days of siege, they needed an outlet to channel their resentment.
For Gehrys, many of these ideas actually come from the liberation theology of the later 20th century.
Liberation theology, as a type of Catholic theology, boldly uses Marxist class thought to analyze the core of social contradictions and comes up with some of its own answers.
Among them, Father Ignacio Eyacuria believes:
Keeping most people in poverty is a form of violence.
Different from personal violence, this kind of violence is "structural violence" or "institutional injustice". It is a kind of "structural evil".
This kind of violence is like a hurricane, destroying the faces of the poor. These poor people who cannot bear to look directly are the "crucified people."
Father Ignacio Eyacuria said: "The rich have abandoned them as they abandoned Christ."
However, in Gareth's eyes, it is these people who have been abandoned by the rich, despised by the nobles, and forgotten in history, who have indescribable strength and noble character.
The sermon ended and the people dispersed.
In the church, Garris was still packing the ritual utensils, but there was another man with a stooped body who was unwilling to leave.
He looked at Garris' figure, stood up from the bench, walked awkwardly through the middle corridor, one step at a time.
On his thin face, the deep wrinkles were as ugly as knife carvings.
At only forty years old, he was as old as the bones in a grave.
Poverty and suffering crushed him, and years tortured his body and mind into a pile of garbage.
Only a pair of cloudy eyes still had some light left, which was given by the thing in his arms.
30 silver coins - this is wealth he has never had at the same time.
They collided coldly in his arms, making a heart-stopping sound.
[Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to the chief priests and said, "How much will you pay if I deliver Jesus to you?" So they gave him thirty pieces of silver. 】
——"Matthew" 26:14-15
However, every time he took a step towards Garris, the coins became hotter, as if they were burning his skin.
Garris was still packing the ritual utensils, and just stood there calmly, letting a clear step ring in his ears.
The man finally came behind Garris. His trembling hand slowly reached into his arms and held the cold dagger.
The chill went straight into his bones, and alternately tortured him with the hot money.
Pain twisted in his chest like an invisible sharp knife.
He could no longer hold the dagger, and his fingertips relaxed weakly.
The cold weapon made a crisp sound on the floor.
Tears blurred his vision, and he fell to the ground, crying bitterly.
"Father! I sold the blood of innocent people!"
The man covered his face and sobbed like a child, tears flowing down his wrinkled cheeks, and he threw the coins to the ground aside.
Those jingling coins seemed to attract Garris's attention. He turned around and tried to help the man up.
"Where did you sell it? I have nothing to do with it, right?"
["I am guilty! I betrayed the blood of innocent people!" The Jewish elders said, "This is your business, what does it have to do with us?" Judas threw the silver into the sanctuary, then left, and went out to hang himself. . 】
——"Matthew" 27:4-5
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