Lust and sin are like twin sons bound together by fate.

In another world, it was no other than the religion that made Andrei in his previous life scoff, but now he had to re-examine it.

Bodhi Patriarch Bodhidharma and his disciples have put forward many extraordinary precepts, the main purpose of which is to free mortals from the intrusions of worldly desires in order to seek a state of transcendent sublimation. There is also a saying among the local immortal sects in China that the three corpses are beheaded, while the Western True God Cult even enumerates the seven major sins of pride, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, lust, and gluttony. It can be regarded as a very incisive summary of lust and sin in that era.

Due to the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, five of the seven deadly sins of True God can basically be summed up in a Chinese cultural word for greed – jealousy is the covetousness of what others have, laziness is the covetousness of comfort, lust is the coveting of beauty, gluttony is the coveting of appetite, and even the vanity of coveting glory and greed in the narrow sense – and the covetation of money and power.

In the case of Pride, which is ranked first, it is likely that Chris, the sage of the True God Church, was rejected and ridiculed by most people when he first started his mission, which is actually a very normal situation for a fledgling religion. But Chris, who was entangled in his heart, was angry and made up the myth that the Seraphic Angel Lucifer finally degenerated into the Great Demon King Lucifer because of his conceit and disrespect for the true God, and ranked it as the first major sin. To vent the deep resentment in their hearts and to warn those who are wavering.

Religion is sometimes a very interesting thing, especially in an era when the occult is in decline and science is dominating the world. The true God of the new age preaches that the true God has created and arranged all scientific principles and scientific facts, and that the great Almighty Lord is the creator of science, and that if science cannot make people know the true God, it is absolutely pseudoscience!

Therefore, in the works of Western consciousness and culture, there are those fanatical believers who believe that cloning and artificial intelligence are anti-God pseudoscience and must be resolutely purified.

For the fanatics, they can find the right explanation for themselves in everything you can use to refute them—as the saying goes, there is belief, and there is none.

The Immortal Sect uses the so-called metaphysics and the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients as a skin to survive in the era of the end of the law, and they claim that there is one life, two fortunes, and three feng shui, and you just believe that all of the above can be changed through the mystical powers. There are even some high-ranking people among the people who believe in these so-called metaphysics, and most of the traditional wealthy businessmen have contributed their "strength" to the spread of metaphysics with a mentality that they would rather believe in themselves.

The most absolute is the Spiritualist Bodhi Sect, which tells the followers that everything you can see is illusory and meaningless, and that only the Bodhi in your heart is the only truth in this world. I don't know how many believers and hypocrites have been conquered by the lofty rhetoric of "the wind does not move, the flag does not move, but the heart moves", so even in the era of science, there are still many people who lack sustenance in their hearts and are willing to believe in them.

However, in the context of that era, the cost of proselytizing has also been greatly raised, if you do not have a super high IQ that can fool people and become lame, then in the face of the new generation of people who are becoming more and more popular in basic science, it doesn't matter if you can't convince them, the important thing is that if you don't have enough eloquence skills, you will not only fail to convince others, but also let your faith be questioned by those heretics or atheists!

In this era when people are increasingly lacking in admiration, if you don't even have a diploma with a higher education, don't think about the profession of a priest as soon as possible!

People will always believe what they want to believe. We cannot completely dismiss some of the good ideas and great wisdom in religion, but in fact most of the so-called believers in the whole world are much more paranoid than ordinary people who do not believe. They are only willing to believe in the so-called good fortune, the true God will forgive their sins and lead them into the kingdom of God, and what other means are there to avoid evil, and then the so-called evangelism and good karma, which are repeatedly emphasized by the priests, so that they can be paid attention to and blessed by the gods...... In many places, religion can almost be said to be a simple spiritual sustenance for believers, and a means for the vast majority of priests to accumulate money. Those who really sublimate their morals and sentiments because of their religious beliefs can be said to account for only a very small part of it. The primary purpose of the priests is naturally to develop believers, and to guide believers to goodness or something is just to follow suit.

The fact that some people who can't even understand the great experiences of the sage Chris's life will call themselves believers is a kind of irony that even an unrelated person like André can hardly bear.

In China, many people, including believers, only know what a priest is, but do not understand why a "pastor" is.

This even includes some so-called believers who go to church every week and give to churches and pastors every year. In the West, the definitions of priest and clergy can be said to coincide completely. But the reality is that because almost all the Eurohas believe in the true god religion, priests are equivalent to priests in the West, so much so that the Chinese also refer to them as priests in many Western fantasy works.

- The origin of the word priest is because the sage Chris once said: mortals are the lost lambs of the true God in the world, and the priest is the shepherd and teacher who shepherds the sheep on behalf of the true God, so the priest of the True God Church is also honored as a priest.

At first glance, it may seem like a lofty setting, but in fact, it indirectly confirms that the sage Chris was born poor, and the theory he set was easy to understand at the time. But in fact, the true God was placed in the position of "landlord", and the early Chinese people believed that the so-called landlord was to accumulate wealth by exploiting the labor of the proletariat. So in Andrei's view, Chris's statement was nothing more than a theory developed on the basis of his limited knowledge, which might have been outstanding at the time. However, the difference between Eastern and Western cultures reflects a certain kind of information that seems to be nondescript...... Even the owners of sheep who love their flocks will pick wool, drink goat's milk, and eat mutton. Although the true God cannot necessarily be measured by the eyes of mortals, it is inevitable that there will be a strange feeling for non-believers who are new to this theory.

The title of priest is more inclined to a long-standing tradition. However, the current Chinese people uniformly refer to the clergy in Western fantasy works as priests, which is just a way to take things out of context, because many of the gods in those stories do not have the argument that the priests herd the lambs for the gods.

In the Whispering Forest, the priesthood who is the spokesperson of the goddess Garlandia is called a priest or priest, and the druids who worship nature can naturally be included in it. Even the orc shamans worship their ancestors and the power of nature, and the goddess of the earth is also one of the objects of their reverence. So in Garlandia you can even see witches and witches praying to the goddess devoutly, but no one uses the word "priest" to refer to the priesthood who dedicate their lives to the goddess.

As a young goddess priestess, when Santia Leungxi came to visit her brother's family in the Emerald River Valley, she was invited by the Grand Druid of Yudeon, who was also a member of the Watchmen.

The elder who was known for her hard work invited her to listen to the Son of the Abyss's lecture tonight, and made her request directly—the Grand Druid wanted Santia to be a priest loyal to the goddess, and then be able to accompany him to objectively recount her most direct understanding of tonight's lesson to the elders of the watcher's upper echelons.

Shantia walked between the streets where everything seemed to be in order, watching the cowardly demons who came and went enthusiastically greeting her niece Little Eluni who responded with a bright smile, and the young priest who felt that everything in front of her seemed so incredible couldn't help but ask: "My little Eluni, please tell my aunt that you know all of them!?"

"Not all of them knew each other, they all looked similar, and Eluni could only recognize Wajaw and Lothar at a glance...... They are always surrounded by a bunch of cute big dogs!" When her parents are busy with work, Eluni always likes to play with the cowards in their spare time, who makes them so similar in size, physical strength, and even thoughts and knowledge?

"And what about their Highness, the son of the abyss, who is praised for his extraordinary wisdom?" Santia thought that the innocent and innocent little girl might give her a more objective answer.

"Auntie, do you mean His Royal Highness Andrei!? Andre is amazing! Look at the 'Appi' in my hand! It is cast by His Royal Highness Andre as the 'director system'...... Last week, I also listened to His Highness's arithmetic class, and my parents said that His Highness was even more simple and straightforward than they taught. It's a pity that I can't listen to His Highness's class tonight, and my parents said that I am still too young to understand and not suitable for learning what His Highness will explain tonight...... Auntie, do you think that Eluni will become as smart as His Highness in the future?"

"You will! You're the smartest little girl my aunt has ever seen. Santia had no idea that the Child of the Abyss had such a profound effect on a little girl, and she remembered that when she was a child, the Children of the Abyss would run out and devour the child when she was noisy and disobey her parents...... If the demon leader didn't do it deliberately because he had a deep dissent, then he should be an outstanding wise man who really has extraordinary qualities.

But what will the truth be?

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Today we will focus on the specific manifestations of desire and sin. Andrei on the podium said slowly in front of the crowded audience.

No wonder my brother and sister didn't let Elle come to tonight's lesson...... It's just that why does this strange course still attract so many listeners? Shantia, who first came into contact with the Children of the Abyss, felt very puzzled, aren't people's hearts all good? Why are so many elves gathered here? Could it be that they have only been in contact with these demons for a few months before they have been assimilated? The morality and wisdom of the elves that have been passed down for thousands of years!?

The young priest who didn't know why was full of all kinds of questions.

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"The most well-known and most harmful of desires is the greedy 'word'. Over-inflated, it allows people to try to gain wealth by stealing, cheating, robbing, and other methods that create no value and wreak havoc on the social order, just because these methods seem to be the most efficient...... And our legislation must first strictly curb these similar behaviors...... The greedy ones who are put on the collar are no longer mind-eating beasts, they are like tamed animal companions like the Demon Pastoral Dog and the Abyss Guardian Dog...... It has greatly promoted the progress of human society! As a powerful people who only rose after the last war, they have begun to exert great pressure on the traditional territory of the orcs! Although the inflated desire inevitably causes a certain amount of chaos in their society...... Restrained desires also represent people's yearning for a better life. It is this yearning for beauty that urges human beings to make continuous progress at a speed that we have never seen before!"

Different from the Bodhi Sect, which advocates "no desire, no desire", and the Immortal Sect, which advocates "rule by doing nothing", the reformed True God Religion has put forward a theory that is more in line with human nature, and behind the original sin there is also a deeper true meaning.

Ironically, Andrew, who was disgusted by the Protestant history of openly selling indulgences, is now borrowing some of these ideas.

"Seeing that others are doing better than us can cause people to feel more or less unbalanced. It's just that some people know how to restrain or channel them, and some people feed this subtle desire into a powerful beast...... Those who slander and secretly do bad things to others are typical manifestations of jealousy. On the contrary, the belief that we will strive to catch up with the goal through our own continuous efforts is called 'enterprising'!"

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"In order to reinvigorate your enterprising spirits, as the leader of Andrarui, I solemnly declare before the end of today's class. In the future, the top three students in the Criminal Psychology exam, like the top three in mathematics, will receive a special offer from Andrari and will be able to give lectures and answer questions as a tutor in the future. In terms of treatment, the psychology teacher is exactly the same as the math teacher!"

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In the bustling crowd of people leaving class, Gru and his brother waited anxiously for the children of the abyss who came down from the podium.

"Your Highness......!" the rabbi looked expectantly at the noble man who had changed the fate of his and his brother's troubled lives.

It was His Highness who ignored his bad reputation as a goblin and insisted on leaving Gru and himself behind, which led to his current stable and fulfilling life.

"What's the matter with you, Rabbi?" replied Andrew, who was accustomed to answering questions directly from the audience from the podium.

"Your Highness......" The goblin standing in front of the son of the abyss looked a little twisted, because he felt that his thoughts were too much, he was just a lowly goblin, and it was already a goddess to be able to get such a life now!

"Can someone like me and Gru be a guest lecturer for Andrari?" asked the rabbi in a whispered wistful voice.

The expressions of the Children of the Abyss were unnaturally stunned for a moment, but the brief silence made the two goblins even more uneasy.

"Hahahaha......" Very suddenly, Andrei's exaggerated laughter attracted the audience that had not yet ended.

The green faces of the two goblins instantly turned an unsightly brown, and the curious gaze of the crowd seemed to put a great deal of pressure on them—but the young priest who was standing quietly in the crowd deliberately paid attention to every detail of this seemingly ordinary conversation from the beginning.

He was laughing at the two goblins in public. ...... If two goblins who were known for their meanness asked how she could become a priest to the goddess, she might have turned around and walked away. Although this behavior made the demon leader seem very ungraceful, Shantia felt that this was also a normal reaction that most ordinary people would have. But isn't he a wise man with extraordinary wisdom that Mr. Judeon admires?How could he do such a thing that is even more vulgar than that of ordinary people!?

However, the next words of the Children of the Abyss caused the young priestess to feel an inexplicable shock that made her feel inexplicable—until many years later, every word of the passage was still deeply imprinted in her mind.

"You guys are a good question!" said Andrei, who barely wanted to mock the two goblins with a smile on his face, "You goblins are born with a thin physique that prevents you from doing the heavy manual labor like the dwarves and minotaurs. But there is one thing that is not so far from everyone in the room. ”

"That's wisdom!" Andre tapped the green-skinned little man's forehead with a serious expression, "Wisdom has little to do with your innate bloodline, even if you are not as smart as the elegant elves when you live in your own tribe, and you are not as calm as the persistent dwarves when they treat metal and stone, but the acquired learning can completely change all of this to a great extent—— there is no wisdom in this world that is innate!

"Remember what I said today!" Andre half-crouched on the ground, his slender hands clasping the goblin's shoulders tightly, "it is precisely because your physique is weaker than that of mortals that you should make the most of your own talents, which are not inferior to others. Effort and perseverance will slowly turn your unpopular part into your own strengths and strengths! You can't compare with Andrarui's strong craftsmen in terms of labor, but that doesn't mean that you can't be wise! You may not be able to become a powerful warrior like Mora, but wisdom can also protect yourselves to a certain extent, at least it can change the image of your goblin race in people's minds - it can change your life! It can change your whole world!"

"Keep working in this direction!Boy!!"

The Children of the Abyss left behind a trance-like back in the moonlight, two goblins who were so excited that they couldn't help themselves with tears of emotion, and a group of listeners who looked calm and thoughtful as the background.

PS: There must be a lot of inaccurate details about religion in the previous statement, so I also set up such a so-called alternate religion like an alternate earth. But that's probably what it means, so please don't worry too much about it.