Cthulhu Gonfalon
Chapter 661
Yan Xiong feels that for the gods, the church is not only a tool for mission, but also a manifestation of His philosophy.
Perhaps from the perspective of strategy, from the real interests, the gods should encourage or at least acquiesce in the church to have a variety of ideas, there are different factions. And the **** of war, Winner, and the goddess of wealth, Manis, who have powerful churches, do exactly that. But Yan Xiong does not want a church like this.
What he wants is a relatively pure, full of vigor and fighting spirit. Although everyone has all kinds of ideas, they can basically be consistent in the fundamental philosophy of life and goals.
He knows that his ideas are a bit too idealistic and impractical – to build such an organization, even with the support of the true God, will not be so easy. But he feels that if there are not enough conditions, since he is a powerful god, you can know what the believers are thinking, and you can give strength according to the degree to the priests who fit their own ideas. Then there is no reason not to do this. .
Admittedly, this practice will reduce the number of devout believers and reduce the number of priests, but the so-called sergeant is not expensive, a high-ranking priesthood, than a hundred low-ranking priests More powerful. A temple hosted by an excellent main sacrifice is more valuable than the altar of the ten grass-headed teams.
At least, he thinks so.
So after careful consideration, a few days later, he issued another god, let the believers, especially the priests, study their own teachings, use the doctrine to compare life, and reflect on whether they have the tendency of secularization and vulgarization. And thus pure thoughts.
For those priests who are "love of the red dust", he does not criticize, but instead establishes a new department in the church, allowing them to engage more in dealing with society, and needs more softness and flexibility. thing.
In this regard, he received a lot of support and advice from the law **** Lau Bran.
The **** of law, Law Bran, is often also called "the Lord of justice". Although He is not the main **** of the gods, he can't use the title "Lord of XX", but what He does, In particular, the holy warriors of His Majesty have won such prestige for Him.
The saints of the **** of law are a group of stubborn old fashioned men who respect and uphold the dignity of the law and do whatever it takes to maintain the normal order of society. In most cases, they protect the weak, limit the power, and maintain order that benefits the middle and lower classes. But if necessary, they will also attack those who violently resist and help the rulers maintain social order.
If evaluated by the "Nine Camps" system, the saints of the **** of law probably belong to the two camps of orderly goodness and order neutrality. The former is more and the latter is also quite a lot.
Unlike churches such as the Lord of War or the Goddess of Wealth, the system of the Church of God is much purer. From the priest to the pastor to the holy warrior, they all strictly follow the doctrine of the **** of law, and even a little bit of specific operations on the details require special prayers.
This kind of unconventional old-fashioned practice has greatly reduced the efficiency of work, so that the priests of the **** of law are often ridiculed as "woody mind bags" and "all stones in the brain". But it is undeniable that it is this stubborn and almost rigid style that gives them the trust of the whole society. No one knows that the priests of the **** of law are absolutely rules--even if this rules them If they disagree, they will only choose to leave, or persuade the rulers of the rules, and will never try to fight against the rules.
With such a reputation, the sacred people of the old-fashioned law will be welcomed even in the most chaotic areas of law and order. Even those evil lords have shown a friendly attitude towards these powerful people who maintain order and rules.
The key to all of this is "the purity of the organization."
Among the gods, there is no more emphasis on the purity of the church than the **** of law, but it is necessary to control the "moderate" precisely, to turn this into a force for organizational growth, not to hinder the development of the organization, but no one can Do better than the **** of law.
Therefore, when Yan Xiong wanted to promote the rectification inside the Void Mask Church and improve the purity of the organization, he naturally thought of asking God for the law.
The God of the Law is very pleased to ask him, introduce him to a lot of experience, and send several priests who have made great contributions to the history of church development to help the heroes, two of whom are even His Holy Spirit.
With the help of this group of experts, Xiong Xiong quickly compiled a series of documents and plans to carry out a large-scale retraining of the priests in the Void Mask. He listed a long timetable and planned to re-train all the clergy in the total temple of the Void City in two to three years.
The first to receive training is the priests who were sent to the federal federation of the secret tower. These priests are the most friendly to the lords and nobles because of the influence of the missionary work, or the most affected by the upper class. Yan Xiong concentrated them and analyzed the social development, recalling the struggle between the upper class and the bottom people, let them be shocked, realized their mistakes, and repositioned their positions.
Of course, this has changed the mindset, and no longer feels that development and progress should be bottom-up and based on the middle and lower classes. For these people, Yan Xiong did not sternly reprimand, but decided to give them a good lesson.
Although he is not a historian, he has seen a lot of mouths on the Internet. Naturally, he understands that this idea is also quite a market--it is nothing more than the so-called "reformism."
In the earth society of the earth, reformism is very popular, because in all areas where the Internet is universal, economic conditions are generally not too bad, social contradictions are relatively less intense, and “improvement” is naturally more popular than “struggle”.
In this world, those priests who tend to improve their direction are also mostly born in wealthy families. They usually preach and contact people who are in relatively better living conditions, or in comparison with those lords. Enlightened local activities, so the social contradictions they feel are relatively moderate, so that they feel that as long as the liberalization of the upper class is promoted, the development and progress of the entire society can be promoted.
The lesson that Yuxiong gave them was to arrange them in areas where the lords were not enlightened and the weak-faced false-face church was weak, so that they could appreciate the innocence and ridiculousness of the idea of "improvement."
Should we improve by improvement? of course can. The premise is that you must first be able to force those who control power to the point where they must accept improvement.
Realize the improvement and progress by propaganda and persuasion, how can there be such a good thing in the world!