Chapter 980: Awakening Party (III.)
The tendency in the cultural circles is to completely liberalize the control of thoughts, no longer establish an official church, and there is no need for unity of thought, and people can convert to any church according to their own interests and freely profess their faith. X
Rudolph sensitively disliked this kind of free and chaotic ideology, and Roland, as a traverser from the earth, deeply realized through the painful lessons of history what a dangerous hidden danger it would be to abandon the ideological and public opinion position in a period of rapid social change, so he was more resolute than his father against the "anarchist" tendency in this ideological field!
On this issue, he is indeed better suited than his father to stand up and take a stand. The reason is simple, he is the chosen person of the goddess of fate, and the vast majority of the members of the Koras family and even the Kolas legion are also followers of Sindra, and it is his duty to expand the influence of the Sindra Church in the Far East and replace it with the legitimacy of the Pero Church, which cannot be compromised. On the other hand, Roland also pointed out that there are still fanatical followers of evil gods such as Narok, Tiamat, Hexstowe, and Barol Vermore in the Far East, and that if these cultists are allowed to do whatever they want, the religious and ideological circles in the Far East will turn from extreme repression to extreme chaos.
"Compared to the burning at the stake in the Inquisition, crimes and even terrorist activities in the name of religious freedom will pose a greater threat to people's lives."
Roland's words were like stones thrown into a calm lake, and immediately caused a huge controversy in the venue.
Almost in tears, Pastor Denis jumped up to applaud Roland's speech, publicly expressing his full support for his views and pointing out that the Pyrrheutics were not so rigid from the beginning.
Today's people do not know the history of the past, and do not know that at the beginning of the founding of the empire, there were many cults of all kinds on the land, and that the blatant activities of cults that held blood sacrifices and even cannibalism had become the most hated public hazard by the people. In such a grim situation, the Peiro Church can only fight the cult with harsh means, and it is precisely the people, not the church itself, who demand the establishment of the Holy Light Inquisition to assist the militias everywhere in fighting against the rampant cultists.
Of course, this hatred of heresy gradually turned into overkill, and even legitimate religious beliefs were included in the list of strikes, which was the result of the bloated and rigid system of the Perot Church itself, which rigidly followed tradition to the point of path dependence, and distorted the true meaning of Perot's teachings, and the emergence of "reformers" within the Church was precisely to correct this error.
Based on the above ideas, Genesys is very well able to understand Roland's position. Although the Sindra Church and the Perira Church were in a hostile position in the Far East, in his opinion, this was not a major difference in philosophy between the two, and there was no clash between the believers of Perot and Sindra, but the hostility between the two sides was only due to political factors, and there was no possibility of resolving the conflict, which was the root cause of Dennis's cheekiness to come to the meeting.
Roland felt that Denis's remarks were reasonable, but unfortunately Philip's defeat caused people to completely lose confidence in the Church Reformers, and Janis was also affected, and no one but Roland wanted to listen to him on such an occasion.
Although not very religious, Paul Prit was also a follower of Sindra, but he was the first to jump out and challenge Roland, questioning him for exaggerating the threat of cultists.
Roland smiled slightly, since this thing hit the muzzle, he didn't mind teaching the other party a good lesson.
Paul was known for his debating skills, but Roland did not bite a word with him at all, and directly cited the examples of his own experience to prove the threat of the cultists, starting with the orcs who were most familiar to everyone present:
"The first battle in which the Kolas legion made a name for itself was to sweep away the orc armies that had marched south from the mountains of Lucia, and Mr. Pulit must have known that the most powerful orc warbands either worshipped Geush or were followers of the god of slaughter, Eresnu, and they slaughtered humans as a religious ritual of sacrifice to the evil gods, who would dare to say that the brutality of the orcs had nothing to do with their cult beliefs?"
Next, Roland used his two-year adventure in the north as the main line, recalling the cultists he encountered during the trip:
Nero, the "skinning baron" who caused the massacre in the lumberyards, was a follower of the evil dragon goddess Tiamat; The Purgatory Titan Grande, who led the war-scourge believers to destroy Kitland City, was the chosen person of the "tyrannical god" Hexstowe, who swore to slaughter 66,666 Kitlanders as a sacrifice to Hexstowe, and the Kitlander traitors Sergei and Oleg father and son who colluded with Grande were fanatical followers of the female evil god Mokesh; Kraken, the pirate queen of the North Bay, is the daughter of Barol Vermore, the god of the giants of the deep sea, and her main activity in the North Bay is to spread the cult of the deep sea, claiming that only by converting to Barol Vermore can she survive the impending flood catastrophe; The Dragon's Eye is a military order established by the followers of Tiamat, claiming that a person's nobility or lowliness depends on how much dragon blood he has in his body; Not to mention the largest cult organization in the Far East, the "Naraku Cult", the followers of the Grim Reaper hate all living people, if this group of madmen is indulged to practice Naraku's creed, the Far East will become a ghost world infested with undead!
Roland's extemporaneous speech became a cadenza at the banquet tonight, and the sharp-tongued Mr. Plitt did not find any opportunity to find fault during the hour-long speech, and the rest of the audience listened attentively, so that Roland ended his speech with unprecedented applause, and most of them accepted Roland's point of view:
The intellectual circles of the Far East could not tolerate anarchy, and it was necessary to establish a mainstream faith to replace the ideological vacuum that had arisen due to the collapse of the Pero Church, and the Sindra faith, which represented the spirit of hard work and revolution, should be indisputable, and nationalism and patriotism, as an important complement to the Sindra faith in the field of secular ideology, would be established as the bottom line that the educational community must adhere to.
On this premise, Roland is willing to adopt a tolerant attitude towards those beliefs that benefit the hearts of the world:
"The Kode faith of the Kitlanders embodies a positive competitive spirit; The sea elves of the North Gulf follow the teachings of the deep-sea Saisila to develop maritime trade and rescue merchant ships trapped in storms free of charge; The followers of Vijes of Parnia are the nemesis of the Naro, who oppose the resurrection of the dead against their wishes, oppose the misuse of magic to manipulate the undead, and believe that the old should accept the end of their life and make room for the young to survive and develop; The followers of Bokab were happy to spread the knowledge of magic, believing that the industrial revolution based on the progress of magic technology would make people's lives easier; The Green Druids of the 'Ring of Harvest' have made a great contribution to the development of agriculture in the Far East......"
There are also many gods in the good or neutral camp, whose teachings are generally beneficial to the development and progress of human society, and Roland is open to this, promising not to suppress and ostracize, let alone abuse the stake. But for those notorious and perverse cult believers, Roland will not be polite to them, kill those who should be killed, expel those who should be expelled, and never tolerate adultery!