Luke and Lauren acted on their own terms.
The Blessed One builds his city within a city, and the king exalts himself to the highest level.
Luke longs for the secularization of the church, while Lauren enjoys the glory brought by the legendary and even mission-oriented family.
Over the past few decades, they have undoubtedly been each other's best help.
Laurent spent half of the tax revenue from the southern territories to support Luke's city within the city, and Luke the Blessed was naturally unstinting in his praise for the king of the Leydonites.
Luke sometimes wandered the streets and sometimes sat quietly in the church. He looked at the heaven of faith on this earth with gratitude and satisfaction.
In the past, he traveled and preached with compassion. Now he has never given up his compassion, but he no longer travels around, but stops in this city within the city.
The rationality of a city within a city took shape.
The only trouble is...
Luke saw with his own eyes the people prostrate themselves in prayer, only doing good deeds and not daring to do evil. For some reason, Luke thought of the pagans who obeyed our King.
Those pagans who worshiped the false god, the King of Kings, Luke had heard their chief priests preach when he was young, and he had refuted several of them. Luke remembered that in his impression, those pagans emphasized the coming of judgment, Emphasizes obedience to God's laws and will.
Blessed Luke suddenly froze, and he suddenly thought:
"Have I unknowingly adopted the views of those pagans?"
Over fifty, Luke suddenly felt a chill from his fingertips.
But soon, the no longer young priest saw comfort from the people doing good deeds.
"My Lord...I just accidentally learned some of the advantages of those pagans."
Although he was relieved, Luke still felt a little uneasy.
He recalled the days when he traveled around in the past. For more than ten years after building this city within a city, Luke always thought that he had never been as enlightened as he is today.
If the church wants to penetrate deeply into the secular world, it must learn to rule.
Fear is one of the best ways to rule.
The cold wind blew, and a burst of heat surged from his chest. Luke felt uncomfortable in his throat, so he covered his mouth and coughed.
Luke felt his head feel a little swollen and thought that he might be infected with the cold.
That can't be called a minor illness, but it can't be called a serious illness either.
Luke lifted his steps, he was about to return to the mansion to rest.
In the streets not far away, there was a loud quarrel at this moment.
"Kill him! Drive him out! He's a heretic!"
"Infidels, get out! This is not your place!"
"Go to Hell. Infidel!"
Luke suddenly felt strange when he heard the voice. He had not heard such hateful words in the city within the city for a long time.
The blessed man couldn't help but lift his steps and walked to the alley as quickly as possible.
He saw a scrawny old man who was being surrounded by several True believers in an alley and being brutally beaten with objects in their hands.
The old man knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the true believers. This actually aroused the true believers' determination to punish evil. They insulted the old man and believed that such heretics should go to hell.
The coldness pierced the palm of Luke's hand like a needle. The Blessed One was stunned for a moment, watching these people whom he taught to be good, wantonly showing their evil to the pagans.
One of them, probably a carpenter, hit the old man's fragile shoulder with a wooden ruler. Hearing the latter's cry of pain, he instead held the holy statue around his neck.
Luke heard the man say:
"Woe to you, evil people! The gospel is so close, but they push it away. The church is the interpreter of the gospel, but they turn their backs on the true religion! You must not be such people, or you will suffer eternity in hell. Miserable.”
Every inch of the Blessed One's body was frozen.
The man in front of him quoted his own sermons and tortured the heretic who did not believe in the true religion.
The movement in the blacksmith's hands did not stop. He ignored the pagan old man's shrill cries and beat the old man's bent knees hard.
The man chanted enthusiastically:
"Righteous and good people, you must respect the church and respect the church. Why? Because the church connects the earth and heaven. You can pray through the church and your voice will reach the kingdom of heaven. Blessed!"
Luke's hands and feet trembled. The man imitated his preaching manner, and the words he recited were so precious and solemn.
Blessed people who thought they were enlightened,
Suddenly,
He didn't even know what he was thinking.
The pagan old man curled up and knelt on the ground. Seeing that the true believer in front of him was unwilling to let him go, he immediately recited the name of his god in Yawen language, praying for protection from his prayer to the King of Kings.
The true believers who were besieging the old man were furious when they heard this. They raised the objects in their hands and were about to increase the intensity of their hands.
"Stop! Stop!"
Luke shouted at the top of his lungs.
When a familiar voice came, the true believers immediately stopped what they were doing. They looked at Luke, with a trace of panic on their faces.
Luke walked into the alley step by step and looked directly at the huddled pagan old man.
As Luke approached, the True believers chanted scriptures in low voices and stepped aside silently, as if they were using the scriptures to defend themselves.
The Blessed One could not utter a word, so he could only lift up the pagan old man.
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Luke walked into the church in despair.
Religion is exclusive.
Luke knew this;
However, when he was still a young priest, he traveled around the country and clearly saw that the true believers and the pagans were in harmony with each other. In some places, both sides were happy and harmonious with each other.
Before today, Luke never expected that the people listening to his sermons would be so content to do evil to pagans.
Is this all due to his own promotion of the church to go deep into the secular world?
No, it's impossible...
I have thought deeply about this, and it is definitely not caused by this. Those people do evil just because they have evil thoughts in their hearts.
The priest, who was no longer young, found an excuse and was relieved. He straightened up, and he suddenly felt a different kind of strength...
“In the eyes of those people, isn’t doing evil to pagans not doing evil?”
In the empty church, Luke asked loudly.
He must punish the few true believers and teach everyone in his next sermon that doing evil to pagans is still evil.
Luke suddenly made up his mind.
Just then, a monk walked in.
Luke looked at him, and what he was holding in his hand was a silk gold book.
The Silk Gold Book will only be used for papal bulls.
The monk walked to Luke respectfully and said, "Father Luke, the Pope has issued an oracle."
Luke nodded slightly and took the oracle from the monk's hand.
Then, the priest raised his fingertips and touched the holy water on the altar, and then slowly opened the oracle.
This is a ritual that has been established in recent years as the church has grown.
Luke, who was happy to see the church grow, would not disobey it.
Luke looked at the oracle, and his eyes couldn't help but fall on the last line of the oracle. That was his habit.
The last line is usually a summary.
I saw the Pope leaving a shocking statement on it...
"Our Lord is better than the gods of the pagans, and it is blessed to convert people. For the sake of the Lord and for the sake of our gospel, killing the pagans is not considered murder."
Cold sweat broke out on Luke's neck, and his hands suddenly relaxed...
The oracle fell to the ground, making a lonely sound.
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