316 What is faith?
What is faith
"I'm very confused, and I don't know what I'm looking for, my brothers, who have been with me for more than ten years, can completely betray me and betray the Triumphant Dynasty because of Allah and spiritual beliefs, and I don't know how many such people there are in my gang!" Wang Xing shook his head in annoyance, his hands formed into a trumpet shape, and shouted a few times into the distance.
"Brother Xing, you only saw betrayal, but you didn't find perseverance! You saw Zhang Zhi's rebellion and began to doubt your brother and love righteousness, but you didn't notice persistence, such as Ling Yuan, who I have always disliked, has he always been by your side from the beginning?" I didn't mean to comfort Wang Xing, I just talked about things.
"Everyone has a purpose, everyone approaches me just to get a better life!
"It's still what we just said, since you are a human being, you must have thoughts, and you want to make your life better and improve your quality of life, there is nothing wrong with that, right? We can't expect to tie everyone up with just one so-called affection, right? Your purpose is to take revenge, but why should you ask others to do the same with you?" I blurted out almost without thinking, and after I finished speaking, I regretted it a little, Wang Xing was already emotionally unstable now, and I deliberately stimulated him.
Wang Xing was obviously stunned after listening to my words, and touched the class by himself, staring at my face with two bloodshot eyes, panting heavily.
"Uh... Brother Xing, what I said just now is completely bragging, just ignore it directly, if you are not happy, you will continue to shout, continue to shout, and my brother will accompany you to drink for a while..."
"You're right, I'm really a little self-deceived, I'm always using my own creed to bind others, no wonder I don't feel satisfied!" Wang Xing's voice was hoarse and he nodded his head, then turned around and continued to roar at the land of Chongzhou City, facing his feet!!, "I'm going to kill someone, I'm going to kill Chu Fei, I'm going to destroy the verdict!"
I could hear Wang Xing's shout this time just to vent, and after he finished yelling, the two of us looked at each other at the same time and laughed, raised the wine bottles and touched each other, and poured a large sip of liquor into our mouths together.
"Are you in a better mood?" I looked at Wang Xing and asked with a smile, and after a flurry of shouting and shouting, the confident Wang Xing came back.
"It's okay, thank you! Xiao Si..." Wang Xing nodded, drank the last sip of liquor in the bottle, and threw the bottle out.
"Brother Xing, it's not good for you to litter so casually, even if you don't hit people, it's not good to hit flowers and plants!" Seeing that Wang Xing was in a bad mood, I also made a joke at will.
"Come with me to a place, I want to know what faith is all about!" Wang Xing patted me on the shoulder and motioned to go upstairs.
"Where are you going?" I promised to eat and drink with my brothers from Tianmen in the evening!" I smiled as I got into Wang Xing's Land Cruiser.
"I won't delay you for too long, don't you wonder what faith is? What kind of spiritual power can make people give up everything and be willing to betray and betray their past..."Wang Xing asked me suspiciously, while playing the steering wheel.
"Could it be that you know the headquarters of the Destruction Organization in S City?" my curiosity was instantly raised.
"Of course I don't know, I just know that there is a church on the outskirts of the city, and there is a group of demonic believers there! I want to know through their mouths what faith is..." Otherwise I'll never know what's going on in their heads?"
"That's right!" I nodded admittedly, although there is no person like Zhang Zhi inside Tianmen now, it is difficult to guarantee that such a situation will occur in the future.
Follow Wang Xing to drive all the way to the outskirts of the city, and finally found the church called "Peter's Basilica" in the middle of the mountain.
Embark on a bluestone paved path towards Peter's Cathedral.
On both sides of the front of the church are tall minarets, the cross at the top of the tower is solemn, and countless finely carved minarets are stacked on top of each other.
"Brother Xing, when did we have such a cathedral in S City?"
Standing on the stone steps, I looked at Wang Xing next to me.
"It's been there for a long time, but we all worship Second Master Guan, who cares about this kind of foreign thing!" Wang Xing put his hands in his coat pockets, biting the cigarette holder in his mouth and shaking his head.
"Silence, people can have no faith, but they can't be in awe!" At this time, an old man with black and white hair and an old black suit looked at me and Wang Xing with a cough.
"I'm sorry old man, we don't mean anything to blaspheme!" Wang Xing nodded apologetically at the old man.
"God says to be loving, and He will forgive you!" the old gentleman made a prayer gesture respectfully on his forehead and chest.
Following this devout believer into the interior of the church, it is as if you have entered an ancient temple, only to see this cathedral made of polished marble, its internal and external carvings look like a work of magic.
But my only thought at the time was that with such an open-air roof, wouldn't the congregants need to pray on a rainy day...
Following the old gentleman into the interior of the church, I saw that the reliefs on both sides were colorful window paintings depicting Bible stories and several European versions of the zodiac pictures, the sunlight was hidden outside the glass windows, making each glass pattern colorful.
Along the way, I listened to the old gentleman whispered a lot of allusions and doctrines about the church, I knew that this was a Christian church, the more Wang Xing listened, the more addicted he became, both eyes became bright, I was completely holding the attitude of listening to the story, perfunctory nodding my head, through the old gentleman's narration I came to the only conclusion that "all people are guilty", and we all lived for atonement for our sins.
Of course, I would not dare to express such thoughts, otherwise I would have to be torn alive by the old man and a group of parishioners.
As soon as we entered the hall, the old gentleman stopped talking, but motioned for us to find a row of wooden benches to sit on, and on the prayer table a young priest of not very old was leading the believers in prayer in a soft voice.
Many men, women and children chanted along with the priest's chanting, I didn't understand a word of what he said, the only thing I heard clearly was "Amen", what interested me was the priest standing on the prayer platform, the same as I had seen in TV and movies, slightly thin, wearing a long black priest's robe and reciting the Bible, nothing unusual, but the cross hanging on his chest seemed to be different from what I saw along the way, his cross was actually upside down, could it be that the priest had any privileges? And I've never seen this guy before, but why does it feel so familiar?
Wang Xing imitated the appearance of those believers, put his hands on the door of his head and whispered silently, I had nothing to do, and secretly looked around through the gaps, and my eyes met the priest on the prayer table, and he actually grinned at me strangely...
His smile should seem kind and sunny to outsiders, but in my eyes, it always feels particularly incongruous. ,
The old king next door