Chapter 643: People cannot be slaves voluntarily!
It was not only Rufel who left with Rufel's ferry, but also aristocratic students such as Silvanik, as well as the new issue of "Pravda".
The ferry docked at the edge of the Wild Spider Forest, and newspapers wrapped in brown paper tied with hemp rope were stuffed into the covered carriage.
The two horses neighed and ran wildly along the mortar road on the Holy Arms-Jean Arc Castle road.
Not only carriages carrying newspapers, but also carriages carrying goods such as woolen cloth, mortar, peat, etc. were also running wildly on the road.
The coachmen, wearing thick woolen robes and water bladders filled with beer hanging around their necks, lined up on the wide road and told crudely new and crude jokes.
The distance from the Wild Spider Forest of Nanze Lake to Fort Joan of Arc is about 120 miles. It took Horne and the others a full 10 days to walk, but after building this mortar road, the coachmen can easily complete this journey in just one day. A difficult journey.
After the construction of the Erno River is completed, this time can even be shortened to half a day or even a morning.
These coachmen set off in the morning and arrive at Castle Joan in the evening. They will split up outside the castle.
Those loaded with mortar and woolen cloth headed towards the dock in the industrial area in the south, while those loaded with newspapers and peat headed towards the dock in the city.
The porters at the dock lifted a bundle of newspapers in one hand and threw them into the cabin in a relay manner. The peat had to be processed into briquettes before being loaded onto the ship.
The flat-bottomed mail barge will set off at night, passing through the starry sky and lights reflected on the water, and sailing on the dark river driven by the autumn wind.
But now is different from the past. Except for a few bridges that cannot be demolished, most of the tax card bridges used to collect taxes have been demolished one by one.
So it only takes 3 days, or even less than 3 days, for the latest issue of Pravda to appear in the dock area of Rapid City.
Even Pravda arrived in Rapid City before Luffield, and was distributed to the newsboys who were waiting anxiously at the pier early in the morning.
The Holy Fathers Association has specially set up a fund in Rapid City to use it to recruit orphans from the almshouse to serve as newsboys, and even arrange for them to become literate.
These orphans dressed in shabby linen clothes each had a cloth bag, shook the newspapers in their hands, and started shouting along the street.
"New newspaper, new newspaper!"
"The latest Pravda!"
"There are 4 newspapers today. There will be no increase in price if you increase the quantity!"
The window on the second floor of the hotel suddenly opened, and a young monk's head popped out: "That newsboy, bring me a newspaper."
After losing one and a half dinars in a large copper coin minted in Rapides, Mudiay obtained this latest copy of Pravda.
Taking this Pravda, Mudiay did not return to the second floor. Instead, he sat directly in the restaurant on the first floor, ordered an oatmeal porridge and barley tea, and read while eating.
In the past, people in Qianhehe Valley would definitely have a glass of beer on their breakfast table, but after Meliyati came to power, he issued the "Frugality Decree".
One of the ordinances prohibits restaurants from serving any alcohol before noon and encourages citizens to report it, with whistleblowers receiving one-third of the fine.
That's why these hotels and restaurants had to replace beer with barley tea, but sometimes they also provide fermented barley tea to regular customers.
As assistant monks in Kasha County, when winter comes, those who perform well will be sent to Rapid City for training and examinations.
As one of the monks in training, Mudiay naturally would not regard "Pravda" as an ordinary reading material, but an important tool for the Papal Palace to convey the wind direction.
It has to be said that this issue of Pravda has four pages and sixteen pages, but it still only costs half a dinar.
Mudiay didn't read a single word of those messy news poems, and jumped directly to the theology section, only to find that they were still commentary on current affairs.
Then he realized that the two extra pages, densely packed with fine print, were actually additional issues of the theology page!
At the same time that Mudiay gasped, other priests and monks in the restaurant burst into exclamations and dropped spoons one after another.
Because these pages are not so much an introduction to theological content as a scene of debate between priests, theologians and Holy Father monks from all sides, and the content is quite intense.
In the previous article "On the Diocese of Masons", the topic of whether people voluntarily became slaves was already quite sensitive.
In the second issue, an anonymous theologian immediately submitted an article "Refuting the Two-Wheeled Monster" to Pravda and it was published in the newspaper.
The main content is the church's old patchwork, which simply means that people are free to give up freedom, because freedom is essentially a right to choose, and the existence of the right to choose means that people have the right to choose not to exercise freedom, or even choose to give up freedom.
Therefore, voluntary slavery is the full expression of freedom.
Originally, Mudiay thought that this was just an extreme temptation by the Holy Doctrine, and that this should be the end of it after "Refutation of the Two-Wheeled Monster". But he didn't expect that "Pravda" not only refused to alleviate it, but intensified its efforts!
Responding to this article "Refuting the Two-Wheeled Monster" was a new author with the pseudonym "Mr. Horn".
Compared to the two-wheeled weirdo, Mr. Horn's words are sharper and more pungent, and he doesn't even use polite words at the beginning of this rebuttal.
"I have only one sentence for this anonymous theologian: You confuse the inner nature of freedom with the outer exercise of freedom! I don't know whether you are stupid or stupid.
The act of choosing to give up freedom (voluntarily becoming a slave) is itself an exercise of freedom. Therefore, the so-called giving up of freedom is logically impossible, just like it is impossible for you to lift yourself!
...For this point, we can look at the content about the conversion of St. George in the Gospels, which clearly states...
...This example better reflects the essence of freedom - he freely chooses to obey out of his belief in God, rather than being forced to obey in a state of no freedom.
...If a person really gives up freedom completely, then he will not even be able to make a choice of belief, because freedom is the basis of all choices. ”
"Well said."
"Yes, that's it!"
As if the debate was taking place in a tavern, many monks and priests of the Holy Doctrine and the Juano sect could not help but cheer.
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Some of the other monks who still believed in the old sect said angrily: "You are so impatient, you are so impatient, aren't there more to come? Look, this ascetic in yellow is the one with true knowledge and insights!"
Mudiay's hands that were still eating the porridge stopped. Even if the oatmeal was allowed to cool, he would continue to read with concentration.
"This Mr. Horn obviously failed to understand what the purpose of freedom is.
Is freedom just for you to enjoy happiness in this world? The highest purpose of freedom is not to maintain autonomy, but to enable human beings to choose good and God...
...As St. Pierre said in the Gospel, I am the servant of Messiah, which is the final destination of mankind!
Therefore, when people choose to give up freedom, they instead enter a higher level of freedom, that is, true freedom.
…This kind of freedom consists in completely getting rid of the shackles of self-will and submitting to the absolute will of God. ”
Seeing this, the sweat on Mudiay's forehead was about to drop. As a Juanoist, he had to say that these tactics were almost the last word, and he had to think carefully about how to refute.
To put it simply, it is clearly written in the Gospels that the saint said that he was a servant of the Holy Lord. Isn’t this a voluntary slave?
Instantly, there was a sigh of pity and pride in the tavern.
But their sighs soon stopped, because the fast readers had already turned to the second extra issue.
In the second additional issue, a third author appeared, who seemed to be the same contributor, because it was the first time I saw this pen name - the owner of the Moulin Rouge.
“If giving up freedom is seen as the way to true freedom, then it essentially still needs to be completed through freedom, so the true state of giving up cannot be achieved at all.
God gives man freedom not so that man can deny man's existence by giving up freedom, but so that man can actively understand God's existence through free choice.
St. Pierre's metaphor of a servant is one of moral self-awareness based on free will, not actual servitude.
Giving up freedom completely deprives this self-consciousness, and thereby denies the meaning of human beings. Isn’t it true that you are refuting yourself? ”
The owner of the Moulin Rouge inserted large sections of logical arguments and examples into the article, but basically the first four sentences can summarize it.
But soon the tuts in the restaurant gradually stopped, because the group of assistant monks and citizens had read the end of the article.
"...If freedom is only something to be given up, then it loses its meaning as a gift from God, because it is only something to be given up, so why should God give another gift?
Therefore, no matter what circumstances, giving up freedom is denying the image God has given to human beings-that is, being created in the image of God.
The Holy Father created humans and other intelligent creatures in his own image. Whether they are Aiel or dwarves, they are all part of humans. Man is the primate of all things. This is what the Holy Father has determined.
If people can give up their freedom and let themselves be slaughtered like pigs and sheep, then what is the use of human wisdom? Why does the Holy Father need to give mankind wisdom and freedom? ”
"Therefore, a true believer should not only not voluntarily become a slave, but should also forcibly restore the freedom of slaves and voluntary slaves, because this is a blasphemy against the grace of the Holy Father!"
Mudiay's breathing stopped for a few seconds, just before the last sentence of this issue of the newspaper.
"For the sake of the Holy Father, we should pay the price of using weapons for this, even if the unfree people are not in our land!"
(End of chapter)