Chapter 18: For the Faith
"Jehovah is my shepherd. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info I will not lack. He made me lie down on the green grass and brought me to the water's edge where I could rest. He revived my soul and led me in the path of righteousness for His name's sake. Though I have walked through the valley of death, I will not fear evil. for you are with me. Thy rod and thy rod comfort me. Before my enemies thou hast made a feast for me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil, and thy cup of blessing hast overflowed. Grace and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. ”
"Amen"
"Amen"
Everyone fell to their knees, whether they were sincere or unreligious, and each of them looked the same excited, and bowed with their hearts and souls.
This is the third week of the month, from the beginning of the small worship only in the castle, to the later collective worship in a township, and now all the devout believers in the entire Earl of Desmond, the scale has even reached the point that even the castle of the little Count Tang can not fit in, and can only be held in the knights' martial arts arena outside the castle.
As a nobleman, the Count of Little Tang certainly could not kneel on the dirty ground like ordinary people, and he had a special silk futon (snatched from the monastery...... The first one knelt down in front of Priest Philip, although the knights behind Count Xiao Tang did not have such a good treatment as Lord Count, but they also had a linen futon to protect them from being stolen, but the peasants below did not have this treatment, but they didn't have pants in the first place, so it didn't matter if they got their bodies dirty.
Count Don Jr. stood up and stood beside Priest Philip - this is a bit out of place, of course, but who can expect a devil to obey God's rules? At least that's what Priest Philip thought.
Count Don looked at the dense kneeling disciples in front of him, there were at least 10,000 people, a line full of thousands of people, and these 10,000 people were able to be silent throughout the whole week—this was really terrible, people couldn't believe it, was this still a medieval peasant?
However, the power of faith is indeed so terrifying, and we may be able to get the answer just by looking at the current Green Cultists.
Human body ~ bomb, you can get seventy-two virgins when you go to heaven, hum, why don't you say that there are 108 beautiful girls in Niangshan, a green cultist is seventy-two virgins, so aren't all the women in heaven all sex~ slaves, and from ancient times to the present, the population in heaven has not exploded long ago?
But Muhammad said that my Green Sect is not a good thing, but you Christ is also not a good person, and the old saying about witch hunting is not to be said, and the intelligence of the Child Crusade, a twelve-year-old boy who claimed to have received the Apocalypse, was able to kidnap 20,000 to 30,000 children to be slaves in Alexandria.
Count Xiao Tang felt that if he had the heart to develop in the direction of the cult, he would only need the means of an ordinary pyramid scheme company to ensure that he could tear Jesus and kick Muhammad, and he would become the world's No. 1 sect in ten days.
But fortunately, Count Don Jr. does not have such a plan and ambition at present, and he is not interested in being the pope, he is more interested in how to make no one in his territory defecate in the open anymore, and no one can feed him in front of him, so in order for the worship effect of Philip to achieve expectations, he still supported some tricks for this priest who took refuge in the devil.
For example, MLM.
After someone invites you to the pyramid scheme, the work of brainwashing you begins, and you will unknowingly enter the trap that others have arranged in advance. He speaks with an amiable attitude and takes care of life. It looks like a good harmonious society, a big family, at this time, you have to be careful, they are aiming at the wallet in your pocket......
Not just pyramid schemes, early Christian missions, early green sect missions, early Buddhist missions, which sect in the world has not used this kind of tactics? It is known as the most pure and inactive Taoism, and there is also the legend of Lao Tzu riding a bull Lu Dongbin to save people.
No matter how dark it is, this is the truth that loving soldiers like sons, didn't the boss of Huiyuan just say that when you do business, you have to be a son and a pig to sell. When Wu Qi was a general, he shared food and clothing with the lowest level of soldiers. He did not lay a mat when he slew, did not ride a horse or a chariot when he marched, carried dry food himself, and shared the labor with the soldiers. One of the soldiers had sores, and Wu Qi used his mouth to suck pus for him. The soldier's mother cried when she found out about this, and said, "In the past, Duke Wu sucked the pus from the sores for his father, and his father fought with all his might, so he died in battle. Now Wu Gong is sucking the pus from my son's sores again, and I don't know where he is going to die again. ”
Amiable, and then get some miracles after sharing weal and woe, the simple point is 'Da Chu Xing Chen Sheng Wang', and the slightly more complicated is 'Taizu beheaded the White Snake Uprising, Fire Fist Zhu Chong Eight came to the world', but for Christians there is no need to be so troublesome, because the first article of the Bible is 'At the beginning of the world, God walked on the water', so for Christians, if a person can walk on water, then he has a symbol of the Holy Spirit. (This is shown in many anime, such as King Arthur, who was blessed by the fairy of the lake, was able to walk on water.) )
Therefore, the traditional large-scale magic show - water walking can be staged, and most of the modern magician performances water walking are with high-strength tempered glass under their feet, and the tempered glass is spread in the water, and it cannot be seen under the sun. But in the Middle Ages, where the Count of Little Tang lived, there was no such thing as tempered glass, let alone tempered glass, and even the glass, which was made of saltpeter and silver, was very blurry to see, and it was still a luxury imported from the East!
So we can only find another way, fortunately, although the glass magic of the West does not work, our ancestors still left us a set of profound skills after all, its name is called - light power water floating!
Floating on water is mysterious and mysterious, but to put it bluntly, it is a skill in which the human body fully inhales, regulates breathing, and relaxes the whole body without the help of any power, including limb strokes and treading water, so that the specific gravity of the human body is less than the specific gravity of water and maintains balance, and the mouth and nose are always exposed to the surface of the water and floats quietly - of course, the following is a plywood.
Of course, this kind of skill is difficult to train, and not everyone has this talent, but he provides an important idea for Count Tang, that is, there must be something under his feet!
That's right, the plywood can't do it, because it's too brittle and too weak to support a person's weight, but if it's a plank, or even a whole piece of wood that is inserted straight into the bottom of the water and is only a little lower than the surface of the water, then as long as you are not a fool, what is the problem with standing on the water? Because you are not standing on the water, but on the wood now! - What's wrong with Philip Priest walking on water with his feet soaked?! Who cares about the clergy's feet at such a moment? Besides, the Bible doesn't say that God walked on water and His feet were clean!
If all of them have reached this point and there are still doubts, then Count Xiao Tang can only ask others to evaporate from the world.
The performance of this miracle requires a whole set of plans, including dozens of round straight logs, several trays, and most importantly, the ability to hide from the world, Priest Philip is able to show his acting skills perfectly in front of all the believers without stage fright. So before performing this miracle, the devil fully showed his cruelty, holding a knife to his neck, and forcing Philip to fall into the water dozens of times before forcing Philip to fall into the water dozens of times, and finally allowing Philip to feel the location of the wood under the water with his eyes closed.
So the performance was a success, and Philip became famous, and devout believers came here to listen to Philip's sermons.
"God loves people to be pure, so you have to keep yourself pure in order to be favored by God, so how can you stay pure? The easiest thing to do is to wash your hands......"
As Priest Philip spoke, a servant brought a basin inlaid with gold and diamonds, which immediately aroused a burst of amazement—the splendid appearance of the objects used was also a form of awe. Priest Philip put his left hand into the basin, and with his right hand he took off his clothes, leaving only a pair of large trousers, which he washed in a slow manner, and said while washing: "To keep the body clean is to keep oneself pure, and to keep oneself pure is to insist on righteousness and dignity, so that we can be loved by God......
Balabala.
Towards the end of the service, it is the final climax: all of them, these 10,000 people, will enter the great lake of Desmond in batches, bathe in the water, wash their bodies thoroughly, and heal them, representing their farewell to the sins of the past and receiving the baptism that God has given them.
Of course, this also means that they have to wash their hands five times a day, their faces three times a day, their teeth twice a day, their feet once a day, and they have to bathe once every three days, build toilets for free, dig sewers, and consciously sweep the streets, or else they will be ungodly to God! It's sin! I'm going to be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell!
However, although this scene was so harmonious, Desmond never had the slightest filth from then on, but looking at the thousands of white and naked bodies in front of him, Count Tang felt that he was simply like a pork businessman, and these thousands of naked bodies under him were not the white pork!
Ps1: The Child Crusaders, also known as the Boy Scouts) were a group of children who arose in 1212 between the Fourth and Fifth Crusades.
Ps2: Started going home today, this chapter is a bit rushed, I'm sorry everyone.