“…… Glorified by the Lord and revealed by the Lord, to You, Father in Heaven, be all the light...... Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and not in your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. ”

The sunlight that comes in through the narrow windows casts a colorful halo on the floor through the stained glass that is mosaiced together from the windows. The angels depicted on the edge of the ceiling were squinting at everything in the room, as if they were looking at mortals above the sky.

In the midst of this colorful light, the statue of Jesus tied to the cross is particularly eye-catching, and together with the elegant incense that permeates this confined space, and the religious music that reverberates in the ears, it successfully creates a sacred and solemn atmosphere.

A young man dressed in black, wearing glasses, and with a gentle appearance, was standing under the cross at this time, holding a thick scripture book with silver trim, and preaching to the believers sitting on the benches with a solemn face, "...... It is not that we love God, but that God loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God has loved us in this way, we should love one another...... Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Thy kingdom come. Walk in earth as well in heaven. Our daily bread is given to us today. To save us from burdens is as if we were free from the burdens of others. to turn us away from temptation and deliver us from bitterness......"

- Judging from the above description alone, it seems that this should be a very ordinary scene of a sermon in a church chapel.

Something like this. In every corner of the world where there is a Christian presence, it happens all the time.

But the problem is that if the believers in the room turn around and look out from the open door of this small chapel, they will immediately see the crescent moon emblem on the roof of the house opposite and hear the cry "...... allahakbar！ (Allah Akbar!) Allah is the greatest! Praise words.

- Here, the Christians and Mu. The Slings are butt to butt every day. Prayers are held less than ten meters apart...... What a harmony!

So, every time the young priest under the cross raised his head, he often made eye contact with the imam with a fake beard and a headcloth on the other side.

And in the courtyard between the two houses. There are also monks in yellow robes and Taoist priests in green clothes who are interpreting fortune telling.

Looking at this "harmonious" scene that can be called a group of demons dancing, Bai Siwen, who has been working here for more than two months, couldn't help but sigh and turned the Gospel in his hand to the page of Zuihou. The morning prayer for the day ended in a hurry.

“…… For all is yours the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Pray, Amen......"

The believers, who had been poured ** soup for more than an hour, went out in twos and threes after receiving the holy bread and red wine.

Bai Siwen, who seemed to be the pastor here, first wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then bent down to turn off the stereo sound of the hymn playing under the pulpit, and then walked out of the chapel leisurely and came to the courtyard in the center of the City God Temple to breathe the air.

Well? Temple?!!

That's right, this is the City God Temple – in this small courtyard house-like temple. The crescent moon emblem in the left side hall faces the cross in the right side hall, and the Buddha and the Taoist Sanqing sit side by side in the main hall, with the national flag planted in the courtyard...... It is indeed a harmonious example of the perfect unity of the major faiths.

Therefore, today, this city god temple, which is full of harmonious characteristics, is both a church and a mosque. It is both a Buddhist temple and a Taoist temple, and it is also a party branch - because the contractor of the Chenghuang Temple, Boss Tian, is actually a genuine party member......

Therefore, the situation in this temple is really like the embarrassing couplet hanging at the entrance of the same city god temple:

Uplink: Faith in Christ's way of nature.

Downlink: Love Jesus Buddha and cross sentient beings.

Side: Allah Allah.

What do you think? Enough with Chinese characteristics, enough harmony!

By the way. In response to the province's recent slogan of vigorously strengthening patriotic education in religious circles and "building party branches on temples," two new party flags and national flags have been added to the top of the horizontal batch in the past few days......

If any devout Christian clergyman saw such a blasphemous "church", he was afraid that his eyes would immediately faint. If it's a fanatical Islamic fundamentalist...... Probably immediately prepare human bombs to blast and demolish this damn place.

I am afraid that such an embarrassing and godly "harmonious" scene can only happen in socialist China.

weishenme good haode city god temple, will it be made into such a nondescript look?

Because in today's land of China, building temples is an absolute business. Just make a room and offer cats and dogs that don't know where they appeared, and someone will come to burn incense and send money to make offerings. If you can match a few majors that will fool people, especially the professional fraudsters released from prison, then the business will definitely be more prosperous - often the net profit of millions a year is trivial!

It's a pity that people in the professional flicker industry with jishu content like this are really hard to find now, and the price is also very high. Therefore, in order to save costs, in order to save costs, the boss of Tian, who contracted this city god temple, not only hired a few experts as the "treasure of the town temple", but also hired a group of eloquent college students to pretend to be professional religious figures, especially the normal students who can speak well are the most popular.

In addition, in order to "broaden the sales channel", Boss Tian also came up with a crooked trick to develop a variety of operations, and turned the side hall of the Chenghuang Temple into a Christian church and a mosque...... Whether the church is Protestant or Catholic, and whether the mosque is Sunni or Shia, I am afraid that even the amateur priests and amateur imams themselves do not know - not to mention that they often change the guard.

As a result, Bai Siwen, a history student at the city's Normal University who was working here for the summer, went through all kinds of god professions according to the daily schedule - not only to play the role of a pastor to preach, but also to make a cameo appearance as an imam to pray, sometimes wear a green shirt and sit in the courtyard to show people palm prints to tell fortunes, and even wear a monk's hat to chant the scriptures with a small novice...... And the pilgrims' evaluations are actually good!

- This ...... Could it be that in the main business of fooling people, the routines of all the major religions are almost the same?

Obviously, this kind of overly pragmatic approach will make many self-proclaimed religious colleagues feel dissatisfied - for example, at this moment, Bai Siwen has just walked into the courtyard when he sees a thin black priest who has come to kick the hall, scolding and scolding the big-waisted boss Tian at the door.

Although the black and thin priest is more eloquent, many things can only be solved by force—after only two sentences, Boss Tian, who couldn't say anything, picked up a broom and struck at this evil customer.

The black and thin priest first fought with Boss Tian for a while, but he was hit the forehead, and his glasses fell to the ground and were smashed, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't beat it, so he had to cover his head and run out of the door, scolding while running: "...... You poor ghost thug, the accomplice of Marx and Grandpa Mao, the demon who does not believe in God, after death, you will go to eighteen layers of hell, and you will be pierced through the heart by the ten thousand arrows of the king of Hades......"

Bai Siwen originally wanted to go over to help the boss, but who knew that the other party was not only so unbeaten, but also spoke quite spoofingly, and suddenly couldn't help but daxiao, "...... Hehehe! Where did this fool come from? Does Christianity have eighteen hells and ten halls of Yama? How does his Bible read? ”

“…… Who knows? This thing is a fool! Boss Tian, the contractor of the City God Temple, who was wearing a flower shirt, shrugged his shoulders, dropped the broom that drove people, pulled Bai Siwen to the corner, and then whispered stupidly, "...... This rammer actually gave me orders in a big way, asking me to respond to the call of the Vatican Church and resist the unreasonable demands of the relevant departments to plant the national and party flags in the church...... Although it is a bit strange to hang a red flag in the temple, but those small temples in the countryside are fine, and the opposite side of my City God Temple is the street office, how can my arms be twisted over my thighs? ”

“…… And then you guys fought? Boss? Bai Siwen smiled, "...... You've been retired for several years, and your temper is still so hot, huh? ”

“…… Where can it be? I still know the truth of making money with anger, so I just hit Haha casually at the beginning and dealt with it. Who knew that this idiot actually climbed up the pole! Boss Tian said angrily, with a tangled and depressed face, "...... I took out a small piece of rotten wood in a glass box from my pocket, insisted on being a fragment of the true cross that crucified Jesus, and forced me to pay fifteen thousand dollars to buy it back and offer it, otherwise it would be a heretic, a demon, and a cultist who would be damned—so I took a broom and drove people out in a fit of rage! ”

“…… There are still people selling holy relics these days? Bai Swen was a little surprised, "...... Shouldn't you want to tie in the sale of indulgence coupons? ”

- The so-called holy relics are the objects used or left behind by the Christian saints.

Christian worship of relics is generally thought to have originated during the Crusades – after the triumph of the First Crusade, pilgrims brought back tens of thousands of relics to Europe, the most popular being the wood of the true cross, which would be enough to build several churches if the fragments of the true cross claimed by each church were collected together; Collect the tears of the Virgin, enough to fill the entire pool; As for the fact that St. Peter's toenails are true, he should have been almost 10,000 years old by the time of Jesus. At least three appeared in the skull of John the Baptist, and there were dozens of dozen teeth in Jesus. There is also the coat of the Virgin, the umbilical cord of Jesus, and the foreskin left over from his circumcision. The chapels in the most remote villages in Europe have an astonishing number of saint bones.

There was once a devout believer who, after seeing too many fragments of the true cross, thought that Jesus must have been crucified in a forest......)