"Destroy the Evangelical Church? Kill all faiths?"

Lawrence looked at Currie, and he couldn't help but laugh.

"What's the matter, what's funny?" asked Currie.

"I just think it's funny, I heard them say that before I came, the development of Orthodoxy was actually in charge of you, Migar talked about beliefs and doctrines, but he was not good at them, he was just a poor man whose mind was confused by power, and you didn't mention it, and gave him all the credit......

Are you weakening your existence?"

Lawrence fiddled with the mask, and for a moment felt that Currie was a little incorrigible.

"It's funny, Currie Ferré, you're probably the most contradictory person I've ever met, you talk about patriotism and love for Gaulnalo, but you think whoever is the king is fine, even if it's a monster like me, you don't care.

You're doing all this to destroy the faith, but you're a faith-maker yourself. ”

Lawrence stood up, and in the darkness he looked at the long table below.

People were eating, they were cheering, they were praying, and he saw Juao, who was gobbling it up, and he was eating without forgetting to make a cross, which was probably taught to him by the girl next to him.

Eyes averted, and the others reacted similarly to him, thanking God for the food, greeting each other even though they didn't know each other, and unconsciously praying together.

"You're doing better than Migel, and that fellow doesn't know anything but repeating the doctrine...... But what is the use of these people's faith?"

Lawrence asked, a little puzzled why Currie had gone to such great lengths to win over the faith of these men.

"What's wrong?" asked Curry.

"I don't think these people's beliefs are worthless," Lawrence said, "they're all poor, people at the bottom of society, rats nesting in the sewers......

I'm curious what do you want their faith to do? They can't bring in the economy, they can't bring votes, they can't even make an impact......."

"Have you ever heard the story of the Mad King?"

Currie still looked calm, and this guy seemed to have only two expressions, smile and calm, as if he was wearing a mask.

"I heard that the Mad King betrayed his faith and was killed on the throne by the people. ”

Lawrence seemed to have thought of what Currie wanted to tell, and he continued.

"You want to use these people and make them 'people', which is impossible, Currie, these people don't have that kind of courage. They are a pack of wild dogs whose spines have been broken by reality, and even such a cheap sacrament would fill them with gratitude. ”

"No, you don't understand such people, Imam Lawrence, but I do. ”

Currie and Lawrence also looked at the men, and there was a look of nostalgia in his eyes.

"You're right, I'm a bit of a contradictory person who wants to destroy the faith, but uses it to achieve the ends. Actually, I don't contradict this, after all, this thing is just a tool to manipulate people's hearts. ”

"Just like the secret blood, we usurp power from the blood of demons, but fight against the demons themselves," Lawrence smiled at Currie, "It looks like another story of a brave man who slayed a dragon turned into a dragon, are you interested in telling it?"

"Actually, you can see that, right?"

Currie didn't rush to answer, but turned to Lawrence.

Lawrence nodded, and he said.

"Yes, you are a believer, a true fanatic, you know religion incomparably, and only in this way can you develop Orthodoxy in Gaul-Nalony into what it is today. ”

But what is happening, making a fanatic so averse to religion and faith. ”

Currie was silent, trying to recall the memories he had discarded, turning over the yellowed pages, trying to find their traces.

"That was a long time ago, I was born into an evangelical family, and the family was in a very bad financial situation, often without food, and it was common for me to go hungry for days on end. ”

Currie let out a long breath and exhaled the stale air out of his mouth.

"I was the kind of person you were talking about, a wild dog whose spine was broken by reality, and I used to wander around the church, praying for communion, but even though it was communion, it was just something that was left over from being eaten.

Life was terrible, but my parents taught me the faith from an early age, even if I sometimes couldn't eat, I had to spend money to worship the idol, which was the most valuable thing in the house, a gilded deity of this size, polished and shiny. ”

Currie said as he stretched out his hand, the size of a finger.

"Faith instilled me, and my parents said that as believers, we should do good, and sooner or later God will notice us, and then the bad days will pass.

I've been looking forward to that day and doing good deeds for that day, I want to live in a house that doesn't blow the wind and eat clean food......"

There was a slight commotion below, and for some reason Juao began to cry bitterly, and he ate the food cleanly, and the dishes were like new, and he cried and prayed.

Currie looked at Juao, a smile provocative on his calm face.

"In order not to starve to death, I became a soldier, although it was very hard, but at least I took care of the food, I paid sweat and blood, I climbed up little by little, I thought that my good deeds were finally rewarded, I would let my parents live a good life, but when I joined the Iron Law Bureau, they made me give up my faith.

It was a great blasphemy, I resolutely refused, and I was ready to be killed, I quit the army, and returned to my long-lost home, ready to tell my parents that I was worthy of God's gift, but when I arrived home, I saw two corpses. ”

Liya patted Juao and comforted him, and the people around him rushed up to give him care, and in a trance they were like a family.

I don't know how many years passed, and Juao's good deeds were finally rewarded, but Curry didn't.

"I don't know exactly how they died, but maybe they starved to death, after all, it had only been long since the Glorious War ended, and everyone had no food, and their corpses were as thin as dry wood, and the gilded statue of the god was placed in front of the corpse, and watched so quietly.

The gilded idol was still worth a lot of money, at least for a few full meals, but they didn't think about it all the time. ”

Currie withdrew his gaze and turned to Lawrence's neutral face, which was expressionless.

"This is the gift of God, Patriarch, and at that moment I suddenly realized that there is no god in this world, only a bunch of self-deceiving people.

I was angry at the faith, I felt like a fool who would have attributed what I had worked so hard to to be a gift from God, and I was amused by the death of my parents, who were still expecting the illusory stuff when they died. ”

"That's why you became the head of the Iron Law Bureau, and now you're in control of the faith. ”

Lawrence looked at Currie, and a third emotion appeared on the guy's face, anger.

"No, it's different, the God of the evangelical church never responds to people, but the Orthodox church is different, I am different, the Orthodox 'God' is real, and we will respond to the call of believers. ”

Currie stared at the crowd below.

"How many people like this do you think there are in Gaul-Nalori?"

Without waiting for Lawrence's response, he continued.

"I've read the demographic report, and poor people like this make up the vast majority of Gaulnalo, but you can't see them, all the people who live in the cities can't see them, and people like this can only live in those remote and backward places, and even if they come to the cities, they can only commit themselves to damp darkness. ”

His voice was stirring, like a speech.

"I was one of those people, Lawrence, so I know very well that a little kindness, a little kindness, can buy these people, and they are the ones who are easier to absorb than the superior people who are picky. ”

"So what? They never have any value at all. ”

Lawrence asked indifferently, in his opinion, these people were not even worth being used.

"That's why I said, you don't understand people like me at all. ”

Currie laughed, he laughed bitterly, and no one knew anything about such a crowd all the time.

"They have been tortured by reality for an unknown amount of time, so long that they have become numb and can't feel pain, but at this time, if you give him the 'poison' of happiness, do you think they will refuse?"

Currie asked, and in his eyes, the mysterious Lawrence also became ridiculous.

"Yes, even if they knew that there was a price to be paid for? The cruelest thing is not to endure the darkness, but to be imprisoned in the darkness forever after seeing the light.

We are the light in their eyes, and if God does not exist, we become their gods, and if the world does not give them kindness, we give them kindness. ”

"So what?"

Lawrence still didn't understand Currie's words.

"So, such gatherings are happening everywhere in Gaulnalo, and we have invested a lot of money in helping these poor people, and we are the ones who can really save them than the high Evangelical Church, if not for the faith, for this regular food, they need our presence, they need this light.

But what about when the light is gone?"

Currie explained to Lawrence what he was going to do next.

"On the day of Pope Migel's accession to the throne, we will cause a conflict between the Evangelical Church and the Orthodox Church, the fanatics of the Evangelical Church will storm the meeting, and there may be bloody incidents, but it does not matter, the Orthodox Church will gradually cancel the supply of the Eucharist in the following time, and the reason for all this will be attributed to the suppression of the Evangelical Church.

Little by little, we will turn them into angry masses, not to think that these people cannot influence anything, to know that they occupy the vast majority of the kingdom, and they are the real silent majority. ”

"Death to the Mad King. ”

Lawrence said coldly.

"That's right, the death of the mad king, this kind of thing the Iron Law Bureau is very good at, we will control public opinion, little by little the gospel church will become the mad king, until it is completely spurned and killed by the anger of the masses. ”

Currie filled his glass again, and he continued.

"Do you think the royal palace of Gaulnalo is really so easy to be stormed by angry people?

In fact, it was not the people who really killed the mad king, but the other noble ministers, this madman wanted to veto everything about the Evangelical Church, which touched the interests of those people, the soldiers opened the gates, the guards could not hear his cries, and the ministers laughed at his grave.

But this time was different, it was a perfect opportunity. ”

Currie didn't continue, but said something else to Lawrence.

"You have bewitched the king with secret blood, right, he has been in the hospital bed for so long that he is so afraid of death that he will not hesitate to accept even if it is a gift from the devil. ”

Lawrence did not admit it, nor did he veto.

"You don't want to know the nature of this power. ”

"I didn't think about it, I just needed to know that it was a good enough tool. ”

Currie continued.

"Steam technology continues to develop, for the first time in a thousand years of history, science has triumphed over religion, the Evangelical Church has been divided internally, and it has suffered so much that it has no time to take care of us, and the Orthodox Church has the support of the Iron Law Bureau and the royal family, and you have created the choir with the technology of the secret blood......"

There was a rolling thunder in his voice, which suddenly coincided with the chanting of the priest below, and he recited it like a prophet.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we will use the people as a disguise, in the name of righteousness, no one can stop us, this is like a torrent of collapse, those who stand in the way can only be mercilessly swallowed up. ”

"It sounds like a revolution, a revolution in religion. ”

I have to say that Lawrence was shocked by Currie's crazy words, Currie was far crazier than Lawrence thought.

"Aren't we? We're on the side of justice, Imam Lawrence, and we're here for a better country. ”

Currie drank the wine from his glass.

"No one will starve, the divine will no longer be hypocritical, and goodwill will be rewarded. ”

"We are the righteous. ”

Currie reaffirmed.

"Stealing the country, manipulating the faith, and setting off a wave...... This will kill a lot of people, a lot of people. Lawrence said.

"I know, but it's nothing compared to what I'm going to do," Currie continued with his crazy idea, "when Orthodoxy dominates in Gaulinaro, the Orthodox Church will have a kingdom to support it, and we will go on a crusade at its strongest. ”

"Crusade?"

"That's right, the Crusade, the Holy Crusade against heresy, I think you'd love it too, right, our interests are the same, Imam Lawrence. ”

Currie was completely immersed in it.

"I will prove my faith there before I reach the sacred Basilica of San Nalo. ”

"Proof of faith?"

"That's right. ”

Currie replied with a smile.

"I will destroy God's most beloved land, turn it into a hell on earth, and do all the most blasphemous things that God feels, and I will prove that God is hypocritical and does not exist, but if God appears and punishes me, then I want to ask before I die, why God never answers the call of believers. ”

"What do you think? ”

Lawrence replied sincerely.

"It's good, it's crazy, it's worth it, and I'm wondering if there is such a thing as God. ”

I thought back to everything I had seen in the temple of stasis, what the Evangelical Church was hiding, and what kind of existence the so-called Silent Ones were.

"Even if you don't propose this, I'll be back at the Cathedral of Santa Nalo sooner or later," Lawrence hesitated, "but aren't you afraid of me? ”

"Are you afraid of what, are you being controlled by some unknown power?"

Currie slowly lifted the collar and the pale old skin underneath it, and it was then that Lawrence suddenly remembered that he had never known Currie's age.

"I can't afford it, Patriarch, I don't care about those things, I just want to see the Evangelical Church destroyed by fire before I die, and that's enough, even if I make a deal with the devil. ”

"Are we on a consensus?" asked Currie.

Lawrence took a deep look at the somewhat crazy man, picked up his glass, and collided with him.