Martin returned to the living room of Zack's house, which was temporarily used as a campaign office and dormitory, and had just taken two cans of beer out of the refrigerator and was about to hand Tommy a can, and then discussed with him in detail how much money he would get as a campaign manager if he split the bill.

But before he could speak, he saw Page and Nick, the head of the film crew, each holding a thick stack of books, walking in from outside.

This made Martin's brain go down for a while, and even if Paige, the hateful-looking bald old guy, pulled out a hundred electric shockers, he wouldn't find anything to be surprised about, but...... Helping with the work of moving books? How can it be?

This made Martin think that something big must have happened in this world, because no matter how far he hid in the usual hard work, Paige would go to his trouble to find him and tell him to do it.

"The President of the Gambia has made good on his damn promise! Sent troops to occupy the United States? So......" Martin's face was full of disbelief and excitement, grabbing his beer and looking at Paige:

"So the good days of the American white ghosts are finally over?"

Tommy swept the clutter off a card table in the living room, and Paige and Nick walked over to put the stack of hard-sealed books on the table, Paige patted the cover of the top book and explained to Martin, "Nick said that the owner of these books has made it a point to prevent these books from being touched by the Unclean, and in my concept, the word Unclean is synonymous with black people, including the Gambia. ”

"Thank you, Nick." Tommy looked at Nick, the head of the film crew, whose face was full of curiosity, and thanked him.

However, unlike the desperate expression on his face that was always full of Tommy's uncooperative shooting, Nick's face was full of curiosity at this moment, he put the book on the table, deliberately tilted his head and looked at the names on the spine of those books from the side, from those patterns, it can be seen that these are Christian-related classics, but except for a copy of the Old Testament of the Bible, he has never read them all, and he has not even heard the name.

Ignasius VII, 1 Clementus, The Epistles of Panama, Refutation of Abion, 1 Enoch, The Shepherd of the Dark Horse, The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles......

Nick thinks he is more like a Protestant than most Americans who only pray to God in times of shock or crisis, at least he goes to church at least once every two weeks as long as time permits, and he also joins the well-known Christian youth community organization "Energetic New Youth", praying together, having dinners, volunteering, etc., it sounds a bit exaggerated, but the fact is that Nick is a Christian who is already a true believer, after all, most young people are no longer interested in spending time in church and praying together, Filling themselves with scriptures, they prefer to numb their empty souls with poison or drugs.

But he, an orthodox Protestant, had never heard the names of these books.

"A guy dressed like a Ku Klux Klan was a thief, and he gave me these books and told me not to let the unclean touch them." Nick resisted the urge to touch the books and asked Tommy.

While Jeff was speaking to the veterans at the old people's home, Tommy took the time to go to a few churches in Miami, and then asked him to help him go to Panama, and gave him a phone call to help him get some books back, and then he drove to Panama, and in a small church, he saw a white young man in a white robe, and secretly handed him the pile of books.

"Don't care about that guy's nonsense, it's not a precious classic, it's not too collectible, it's just that it's hard to buy it quickly in a short time." Tommy sat down at the table and pulled out his chair: "These are all books from the collection of Sean McDaniel, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of the Christian First in Panama, Florida, who was secretly lent to me by his son, who is also a trainee pastor of my brotherhood alumni. ”

"First Baptist? I haven't heard of this sect. Neil gave a look of suspicion.

Then he suddenly spoke: "It's the one you said you wanted to contact...... Non-mainstream religious organizations? Or rather, a cult? ”

He immediately distanced himself from the stack of books, for it was better for an orthodox Christian like him to distance himself from such theories that ran counter to orthodoxy.

"No~ Of course not~" Tommy saw Nick's reaction, and immediately explained with a smile: "Of course it is not a cult, it belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention, and it is a small subordinate branch of the Southern Baptist Convention, that is, some former Southern Baptist people believe that the sect has deteriorated, so it is just a branch sect derived independently, which is slightly more extreme than the Southern Baptist Church, and some people call it the White Robe Baptist Church." ”

The Martins next to him were already stupid, and they were stunned for a while before they spoke: "More extreme than the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States, which is extreme in TM?" White Robe Baptist? ”

Page walked over and snatched a can of beer from Martin's hand: "You can understand that compared to the ordinary Ku Klux Klan, when the people of this church organization burn black people, they not only wear white robes, but also take Bibles and wear crosses. ”

The Southern Baptist Convention in Martin's mouth is the largest Christian Baptist denomination in the United States and the second largest Christian denomination in the United States after evangelicals.

"Hell, white racist sect!" Martin came to his senses and cursed loudly.

Black Americans in the Southern abhor the Southern Baptist Convention, and even though slavery has been abolished for more than 100 years, and now it's 1989, the Southern Baptist Convention still requires member churches and member families to fly a Union flag.

Another of its infamous names: America's last bastion of racist white Christians.

Tommy took the only can of beer left in Martin's hand, opened the tab and took a sip: "No, it's another small branch of the Christian denomination, it doesn't discriminate against blacks, it has a lot of black members, everyone is very kind, although they are all poor, but everyone is like angels, approachable. ”

"Then why...... With so much preparation to do, if you're really approachable, you can ...... Go straight to the meeting. Nick didn't believe the words that came out of Tommy's mouth: "I know you quote the Bible a lot, and you know how to preach doctrine better than many pastors probably do...... But these religious texts may not be accessible to ordinary pastors, let alone ordinary believers. ”

"What do you imagine a Christian cult leader to look like?" Tommy put down his beer and took down his first book, smiling as he asked Nick.

Tommy's question made Nick think, and after more than ten seconds, he hesitated to speak: "The kind of people who teach Jim Jones in the People's Temple?" ”

"Boss, I have a question, he ...... Do I know the person he is talking about? After listening to Nick's description of the cult leader, Martin asked Tommy decisively.

This description can't be said to be too similar to his damn boss, Tommy Hawke, except for a different name, and a different religion, but it can only be said to be exactly the same.

Tommy drank his beer, leaned back in his chair, and said in a relaxed tone: "Martin said a very important question, that is, why does he think that Jim Jones, who has never met him, is similar to me, he has never met Jim Jones, he has only met me, why is that?" Because he knows me, he understands me, I don't care if there's a God or not, and Jim Jones is that kind of person, it's just a tool for people like us to use, and in the eyes of people like us, God is no different from Trojan. ”

"Jim Jones believes in God, he went to church at the age of thirteen to worship regularly, and he wouldn't be as disrespectful to God as you are." Nick said disgruntled, "You should be in awe of God." ”

Tommy shrugged: "He's for the pastor's wife, he got involved with the pastor's wife at the age of thirteen, he went to church that day, just to make sure the pastor was busy, and he just took the opportunity to go to the pastor's house to comfort the ripe and juicy wife, I was forced to go to church with my brother and my mother since I was five years old, but after my little bird grew hair at the age of twelve, I changed my mind and started going to church with two old friends, guess what, because the pastor's wife in the church near my house is so beautiful...... Two went to peek at his wife and the electrician cheating, one in the church, yes, the country life without money to subscribe to a small movie channel is so boring. ”

"And if Jim Jones had truly feared God, he wouldn't have crossed the Bible with atheistic communism to create his people's temple, did I say? If I hadn't had the opportunity to go to Stanford, I would have gone to seminary, and thanks to my mother, I had worked a lot on Christian texts, and you wouldn't have been my opponent in religious debates, and you wouldn't know as much about Jim Jones as I did, if I hadn't made the money to go to Stanford, but had gone to seminary, and now maybe I'd be working as a pastor in a church, preaching while doing a little *-* child. ”

Seeing Nick's ugly face and a look ready to punch himself at any moment, Tommy lowered his head and groaned, then raised his head and asked: "Only God can keep me in awe of him, but unfortunately he did not come here, and the believers he left in this world are not worthy of our worship, I am afraid that if I kneel down and pout my ass, they will suddenly appear behind me, admit it?" Those people have the ability to teleport, one second they're all holy in front of you, and the next they're already standing behind you, greasing that thing. ”

"That's not God's fault." It took Nick half a day to squeeze out such a sentence.

Even a devout Protestant could not find a reason to justify the unscrupulous pastors or bishops, who deserved hell.

"Going back to the original question, if the cult leader I want to meet is like me, who eats on a Bible, has no faith in his heart, is greedy, fierce, and lustful, why should I read these esoteric and obscure texts to prepare for the lesson?" Tommy patted the books and said to Nick.

Nick exhaled a sullen breath: "So, what does the cult leader look like?" ”

Gary Dooney, a high school graduate of the American Central Christian School of the Christian Mennonite in Ohio, attended the fundamentalist Moody Bible College in college, majoring in biblical theology, and attended the evangelical Wheaton Theological Seminary in graduate school, studying Greek writing, and later, studied ancient Hebrew exegesis at the Presbyterian Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States, and received a doctorate. A large part of the scriptures that followers of Judaism, Samaritanism, Abrahamism, and even Islam held in their hands were compiled by him. Tommy put his finger on the center of his eyebrows and kneaded it vigorously a few times:

"Now, he is the founder of Way-Christ Church in Florida, a fringe Christian organization that is rejected by nearly all mainline denominations."

Nick was stunned for a few seconds before he came back to his senses from the long list of introductions, and then asked in disbelief, "Is it ...... Or what the hell did that Gary Dooney do, rejected by all the mainline denominations? ”

"Nothing, it's a very simple thing, he said......" Tommy paused for a few seconds, shook his head slightly, and said with some emotion:

"Listen to God's word for what is due."

Nick looked at Tommy puzzled: "This sentence doesn't sound like a problem, as a believer, you naturally have to listen to God's word and do what you should do." ”

"In the opinion of Dr. Gary Dooney, if believers really want to listen to God, all the patriarchs, popes, bishops, priests of all Christian or Catholic and other bullshit religions in the world should admit that the New Testament is a false book, just a tool for them to walk in the world in the name of God, Gary Dooni said the same thing as you just said to me, and should be in awe of God, but those big people in the church think that what I said makes sense, God is the same tool as Trojan, how to use it, God doesn't have the right to decide, they have the final say. ”

Nick gasped, almost instantly, cold sweat seeped from his back, he didn't even dare to question Tommy's words, because that Gary Dooney, who has studied Christian theology systematically since high school, and even served as the chief editor of the American Bible Society, shows that his understanding of all Christian texts and history has surpassed all Christians in this world, and he is a recognized interpreter of the Bible, a hand-me-down text.

In other words, the three main denominations of Christianity, whether it is the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, the pope of the Catholic Church, and the archbishops and elders of the Protestant denominations, when they spread their doctrines, the version of the Bible used is likely to have been compiled by this man, and if he said that the New Testament is an apocrypha, it must have been the answer he got after countless examinations, and the answer is very likely to be true.

But the more terrible question is, why can't those Christian church leaders accept this reality and choose to stick to the lie?

As Tommy said, if you accept it, the loss will be too great, and even the entire Christian system will be turbulent and divided, but if you don't accept it, it means that those who are at the top are indeed using God as a tool for profit......

"I ...... Stay away from me, Tommy, you scare me more now than the cult leader, and I'm just talking to you for the first time, and I'm about to question my faith...... Oh my God~" Nick took a few steps back, exhaled a few heavily, and said with some irritation.

"I see your eyes flickering, you're faltering, Nick." Tommy looked at Nick with a smirk, "You're a Protestant, aren't you?" If you were a Grand Elder of the Presbyterian Church in America, what would your first reaction be when you heard the news? ”

"Kill him, or ......" Nick put himself in his shoes, if he was a big man in the church, if he gave up hypocrisy, then the answer given was so direct and murderous.

For such a senior Christian scholar to be kept alive would be a great danger to the upper echelons of all Christian systems.

"You don't have a chance to become a Great Elder, Nick." Tommy laughed, "Unless, you want to see Gary Duni become the second Jesus, don't kill him according to his influence in the world religious circles." ”

Nick hesitated: "So ......"

"They suspended his exegesis, gave him the right to preach, let him prove all this, and then defined him and the true doctrine he insisted on as a cult, and slowly destroyed him by the hands of those ignorant believers." Tommy shrugged:

"Interesting, right? The world simply does not know which of the crowned devout believers, the vilified cultists, the true believers who are God-fearing believers, and which are the terrible heretics who deserve to be banished to hell, just as many people have been reciting the Bible for decades and cannot even tell the truth from the false. ”

Martin listened to Tommy and Nick's argument before he went to get another can of beer, opened it and took a big sip, and then summed up the conversation:

"I have a lack of fear of God." Tommy opens the first book:

"But I am in awe of this cult leader, and when I found out about the existence of this organization, I wanted to know him as well as I could and be honest with him, instead of perfunctory with slickness and sophistry, and that was the greatest respect I could give him."

I hope that this time I can write the book in one go~ At present, I can not cough if I take medicine and do atomization every day~ So I started to restore the code word immediately~

(End of chapter)