Chapter 208 The Order of Worshiping the Holy Father
"The Order Worshiping the Holy Father? What the hell is this?" As soon as the water entered his mouth, Horn almost spurted out.
Why do these insects just give him new tricks for three days without letting him know? Didn’t he ask Armand to organize something more low-key?
"Your Majesty, I know you are in a hurry, but please don't be anxious, listen to me slowly." Armand took out a handkerchief and wiped the saliva on his face.
Horn crossed his legs, looking like he was listening to your quibbles.
When setting off, Horn gave Armand the task of investigating the movements and thoughts of these believers.
"Our Salvation Army believers are generally confused after the collapse of their faith." Armand got straight to the point, took out a few pages from the drawer and handed them to Horn.
Horn took these pieces of paper and quickly flipped through them, but the more he read, the more solemn his eyes became.
After the Blue Blood Monastery incident broke out, a large number of Salvation Army believers fell into a period of confusion about their faith.
On the one hand, due to the long-term cultural and ideological invasion of the church, they regard the Messianic religion as a noble existence. All their three views are based on the Messianic religion. The Messianic religion Everything they teach constitutes their spiritual world.
On the other hand, the Blue Blood Incident, the Juanno Incident, and the long-term extraordinary oppression, these experiences and experiences in the real world are completely contrary to the spiritual world of Myrcella.
On the one hand, they cannot accept that they resist the church, and on the other hand, they cannot accept that they forgive the church. Their three views have basically collapsed.
"Did you know that the frequency of crimes during this period is high?" Looking at Horn who was flipping through the report, Armand subconsciously rotated the ink bottle in his hand.
Horn didn't even raise his head, he just frowned and turned to the next page: "I know, what's wrong?"
"I specially visited a circle of those criminal believers. , I discovered a very interesting phenomenon. ”
"What is it?"
"Those who commit crimes are often the most devout believers."
Horn's hand while flipping through the report suddenly stopped, and he raised his head. : "What do you mean?"
"These devout believer criminals, no matter what the reason, will most likely be attributed to one concept." Seeing Horn raise his head, Armand stopped turning the ink. bottle action.
“What concept?”
Armand said: "That means that the Messiah Church has done this kind of thing, which means that the teachings are all false. Those who tell us not to fight, kill, or steal are all false. We don't need to go Comply'.
In other words, they are self-destructive after the collapse of their faith. Without the restraint of Messila, they want to vent out all the things they once wanted to do but did not dare to do. ”
This is actually because Horn's complaint meeting at the Castle of Joan and the hatred education he gave when passing by the Blue Blood Monastery in the Wild Spider Forest were so successful that the contradiction between these believers and the church was extremely sharp.
The collapse of faith led to a moral vacuum. In order to ensure order, Thomas and others established the Order of Worshiping the Holy Father with some extreme admirers of the saints as the backbone.
"There are currently hundreds of people in this order. Their purpose is to expel the church, restore Kush, and ask the Kush people not to fight against the Kush people."
This means that after the imaginary community of the church collapsed, in order to ensure that the social order did not collapse, some knowledgeable people proposed to replace the church community with Kush?
“This Order of Worshiping the Holy Father is not so much worshiping the Holy Father as worshiping the Holy Sun.” Armand said distressedly, “They regard you as the chosen one, the savior, and the leader. The qualities of the Kushites far exceed those of you as the son of Myrcella.
I think our ultimate goal is the same. Instead of letting it grow wildly, what do you think?” >After thinking for a while, Horn organized the report in his hand and put it on the table: "Let's find an opportunity and I will personally inspect it and then say whether it should be retained or banned if it should be banned."
"Okay, I have already contacted them, but there is one more personal question I have."
"Say." Horn said concisely. "You have been talking about ideological transformation, so what do we stand for after integrating the Order of Worship of the Holy Father?" Armand asked.
"About the claims of the Order of Worshiping the Holy Father..." In fact, he had thought about this issue for a long time, and only recently summarized some relatively clear ideas.
Going to the window, Horn thought for a long time before saying: "Armand, please remember this."
Armand pulled out a few pieces of fine, thick white paper and dipped his quill into it. Dip in ink and wait for Horn to speak.
"First, we are anti-church but not anti-religion. First of all, we declare that the Pope's intention in the Holy City is good, but it was executed badly by the church below. It will be fine if we eliminate the Church of the Thousand Valleys.
We will eliminate it later. After replacing the church in the Qianhe River Valley, the church will definitely disagree.
At that time, it will be said that the Holy Father’s intention was good, but it was executed badly by the pope below, so we can just eliminate the pope.”
The main purpose of this is to make up for the collapse in the spiritual life of the believers and maintain basic moral norms and social order.
If it is a strict scholastic theology, this statement is full of errors.
Theologians have spent centuries and nearly a thousand years patching every possible problem point in the Gospels, just to prevent similar situations from happening.
But the group of people under Horn are naturally not as rigorous as scholastic theology. Even if they are smart people who know certain "patches", they will still see through them without telling them, and even deceive themselves.
Because under such desperate pressure, they are like people falling into the water. No matter how dangerous the life-saving straw is, they have to grab it.
Even if Horn is the devil, they all have to lie to themselves that Horn is an angel.
Otherwise, everything from spirituality to materiality has been penetrated, and there will still be a bazaar.
"Second, to promote happiness in this life, what is the main contradiction among these believers at present? It is the contradiction between the believers' desire for an increasingly rich material life and the Messianic church's requirement that believers live an ascetic life of peace and contentment... "
Writing this, Armand's rapidly sliding pen tip slowed down: "Your Majesty, if you do this, wouldn't it be contrary to the first point? Isn't this the substitution of 'human rights' for 'divine rights'? '?"
"No, no, no, you see, although the "First Gospel" regards the Holy Tree and the people of the Holy Tree as the only people loved by the Holy Father, in the "Later Gospel" , but this love is extended to all creatures, especially intelligent creatures.
Myrcella even openly declared that 'all thinking creatures are the highest masterpieces of the Holy Father in the world.' Isn't this true. Are you saying that humans also share the characteristics of God?
The affirmation of human value and human secular behavior is the affirmation of the Holy Trinity, which does not conflict with the teachings of Messianism.
Note that only the church requires people to live an ascetic life. The Gospels only praise and pity the poor and do not require everyone to live a life of poverty. ”
This is to win over the citizens, small landowners, armed farmers, low-level monks and other large middle class people.
Horn reads until late at night every day, and the knowledge gained is not without gain. Although he has no formal training, his theological level is comparable to that of some rural bishops.
"The third, and most important point, is to put forward... ..." Speaking of this, Horn hesitated. He wondered if it was a bit drastic to make this idea at this time?
But Horn then thought about it. He is the incarnation of the Holy Father in the human world. As the Messiah, The exegetical authority of the sons of Ra is unlimited.
Even if something goes wrong, just let the Holy Father come down to earth to punish him, and then let the Holy Father forgive him on behalf of the believers. He will punish himself with three cups of wine, and the Pope will do it.
Moreover, these two points are basically equated with "abolition of serfs and nobility" in the eyes of the imperial people, and have not reached the level of later modern times.
After thinking for a long time, Horn finally said it: "All men are born equal, and all men are born free."
(End of this chapter)