On Christmas Day, the Pope finally appeared, and he was still the same ordinary appearance, like an ordinary old man in an ordinary city, and there was no trace of dignity. But no one can ignore him, and his eyes and thoughts are unconsciously affected by his every move.

The Pope was accompanied by several ascetics dressed in rudimentary linen clothes and stepping on straw sandals. Although these ascetics were smiling on their faces, they felt like they were crying, with a bitter look on their faces. Their gaze is restrained, and occasionally they inadvertently turn their eyes, and a trace of fine light is enough to make people feel dazzling. These people are the backbone of the current church.

Everyone was cheering and boiling for the festival, but they didn't know that these elders, who had sheltered the church for nearly a hundred years, were about to come to the end of their lives.

The full stop was drawn for themselves by their own hands, and it was also chosen by themselves.

As on Christmas Day, everyone gathered around in the morning to listen to His Majesty's explanation of the scriptures.

There are several very important books in the Church, including the Bible, the Book of Revelation, God Says, Creation, etc., and every Christmas day, the Pope will take out one of them and explain it to everyone.

Books are very strange, everyone obviously sees the same words, but everyone's understanding is different. The more you read, the more you understand society and the world, and the more thoroughly you understand the truth hidden between the lines. Probably only His Majesty the Pope has the most comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of these books in this world.

In fact, the director of the Inquisition should be responsible for explaining the meaning of the scriptures, but this position has been vacant for one or two hundred years, and everyone has become accustomed to the Pope doing it for him, and no one has proposed any meaning.

The Pope sat due east, with Archbishop Rhodian on his left, Attila on his right, Zenobia after Rossi in third place on his left, and in front of him was a representative of the ascetics.

Rossi didn't expect that he could actually sit here, once upon a time, these figures around him were existences that he could only look up to, but now, they were only separated by a short distance of half a meter from each other.

Rossi was not only the highest-ranking person in the Inquisition, but also the district patriarch.

If it had been a thousand years ago, when Rossi had been the patriarch of the most important region of the Turman Empire, he would have been qualified to charge the papal throne.

The title of patriarch is very special and requires the canonization of the church and the ruling class to be recognized, and this title represents the most powerful group of people in the church at its peak, in the context of the unity of church and state. Not only can they manage the church itself, but they can also control the political situation in a way that is above the ruling class. In that heyday, it can be said that the patriarch was the only great man of the Pope and the Son, and even the cardinals could not be compared.

But to this day, the patriarch is just a title.

What's more, Rossi has no qualifications and no strength, so who is willing to admit his position? Therefore, being able to rank third on the left hand is already a special favor for him by His Holiness the Pope.

Large passages of Scripture were made so easily understood by the Pope that the apostles listened in fascination, with some sighing and some weeping. There were even some believers in the crowd, who were already kneeling on the ground, listening to the sound that was almost like the "Tao".

There is no Tao in this world, or the way of saying it is different.

At least that's what Rossi thinks.

He listened carefully and was very touched.

Of course, it's just a feeling. After all, he is a human being, and it is impossible for him to regard religion as the support of his soul like those apostles or believers who have been brainwashed by religion in the field, and he cannot resonate with the scriptures.

To put it bluntly, religion is a deep exchange. I offer you faith, and you give me spiritual joy and well-being.

In the Celestial Empire in another world, most of the people who believed in religion were old people. Many people think that the elderly are easy to deceive, and that the elderly cannot distinguish the real from the fake. In fact, this view is wrong, think about it carefully, when you think that those "old people" are superstitious about religion, you never think that it is these "old people", what they were doing when they were young.

They followed Taizu to make a revolution, firmly believed in materialism, and held high the spirit of the leader to fight all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, they were the first batch of people in the real sense to break the four olds, break superstition, firm beliefs, and sneer at the ghosts and gods.

But why do they believe in these gods and ghosts more when they get old? It's not that they've been deceived, it's not that they're old and confused, it's an exchange.

They trade their faith for the fear of the unknown.

People are complex and complicated, and simple is also very simple, at least people are afraid of death.

In fact, this sentence is also wrong, everyone is not afraid of death, but afraid of the unknown. The human mind is too complex, and the more you think, the more you fear, especially the fear of the unknown. What is the world like after death, how will people feel after death, and whether they have a soul or not? These unsolved questions have always plagued people, making people feel fearful, and they are the most primitive fears. So these once staunch materialist warriors need an exchange to appease their fear of the unknown.

Religion does this by establishing a complete world of the dead through the description of the afterlife. No successful religion can avoid this, which is "detachment." To put it bluntly, after you die, you have a place to go, where you can enjoy all the good things and avoid the bad things.

People need this kind of psychological comfort when they are about to face the great fear of death.

The more a well-established religion is established in the world of the dead, the more advantageous it will be in attracting believers.

Among the native Taoism, Buddhism, and foreign Christianity in the Celestial Empire, Buddhism and Christianity were popular, but Taoism was not visible to the world.

In fact, the system of Taoism is more complete than the latter two, but why is Taoism not as broad as the latter two? That is because in the Taoist system, the establishment and description of the world of the dead are far from eliminating people's fear of the unknown of the world after death.

Therefore, Buddhism and Christianity, which advocate the Pure Land of Western Bliss and the Divine Heavenly Kingdom, have a wider audience.

It's like buying a ferry ticket, would you rather go to the six gates of the roulette wheel to draw a grand prize, and maybe you will vote for a beast or a plant in your next life? Or do you want to go to the Western Pure Land of Bliss and the Divine Heaven to enjoy boundless joy?

This is the exchange, the real core hidden behind the various interpretations of faith!!

This is also found in the teachings of the Church of the Light, and a separate book could be devoted to the description of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the Bible, believers can travel through time and space to the heavens on the other side of the universe through the guidance of the stars on the Pope's chest. In Heaven, there is no suffering, no iniquity, only enjoyment and joy.

When the Holy Light Church was lifted, the number of believers increased, and it is precisely because of this that there is an audience base in the world, and the suffering people or the elderly who are approaching their deadlines need a spiritual and spiritual comfort.

In Rossi's thoughts, the Pope closed his mouth.

Every Christmas, he will only explain one morning, and the rest of the time, it will be a party.

The church meeting was not as absurd as the gathering of the ruling class of the empire, and the people in the church who knew or did not know would get together to exchange their own cultivation or understanding of the scriptures, and it was more like a large salon. People share their experiences with others, and in this way they are recognized and satisfied.

Rosie stood aside and looked at it for a few moments, then left with Hano.

In the past, he would surround some big people and listen to some mysterious things around them, but now, he didn't have the mood or the will.

Things in the imperial capital are still fermenting, and he needs to rush back as soon as possible.