Struggle in the Steam Age - Chapter 688

Unlike Lawrence’s previous life, the world now places great importance on faith because of the real existence of gods. At least for the vast majority of beings with wisdom, their own beliefs are absolutely indispensable.

But unlike most of Lawrence’s previous life’s religious exclusivity, the intelligent creatures in this world can be said to be very free to choose their beliefs.

For example, for objects of belief, gods are naturally the mainstream, but non-divine beliefs can also be accepted and recognized as appropriate beliefs.

Existences like the druids who believe in nature itself, and the godless priests and holy knights who use certain ideas as their objects of belief can also walk on the earth with integrity.

In addition, the believers of the gods, except for the clergy, basically allow their believers to have multiple beliefs. As long as your other beliefs do not conflict with the beliefs of this deity.

At the same time, for these gods, believers are free to join or leave the church. It is only required that this change must come from my own wishes and have a reasonable reason at the same time.

But the whole society has to be cracked down on one belief, that is, false gods. Unlike other beliefs, this belief is called false because these beings use deception to gain belief.

Part of this comes from the powerful demons or demons on the lower planes. Because of their strength, they will naturally attract a large number of existences that enshrine them. At the same time, this powerful existence can also bestow all kinds of spells and supernatural abilities on mortals, just as the gods bestow the ability of magical spells on those clergy. It’s just that the price is greater than that of the gods.

Others are those who are not gods, but desire to be gods. For various reasons, they didn’t want to embark on the difficult path that belonged to the regular **** ascendants, so they pretended that they were gods to trick ordinary people into offering them.

Under this circumstance, they cannot bestow the power of mortals who enshrine themselves like real gods or those of the lower planes. But he will use all his extraordinary powers to make all kinds of disguise and pretend that he is a god.

Obviously, no matter what kind of false gods, they will have a very negative impact on the whole world. Therefore, it will naturally be listed as the mainstream target of the crackdown.

For the former pseudo-god, what everyone can do is destroy all the organizations related to it as much as possible. Because the opponent’s true body is hidden in the lower planes, it is generally difficult to catch them out.

But for the latter kind of false gods, once caught, they will be chased and beaten vigorously. Many of the artifacts of various churches with belief in gods come from these not-so-high-level, but powerful guys who jump up and down.

It is also because of the existence of false gods that those who wish to become gods will naturally need to be tested.

For example, when Lawrence arrived on New Sauer Island in a fast airship, he saw several large ornately decorated ships with church flags already moored at the pier at the port.

These ships basically came from the churches that Lawrence had been with before, and the reason why they came here now is to congratulate the little puppet for lighting the sacred fire and becoming a secondary god.

But from a deeper level, this is also an assessment of Nora by those churches belonging to the civilized camp to confirm that she is indeed not a false god.

This custom actually began to appear soon after the establishment of the civilized camp, and the reason for this was a sort of screening and recognition within the alliance.

For those gods who established a civilized camp back then, of course they hope to absorb enough members, because only by constantly receiving fresh blood can the entire organization be maintained alive.

But because they will provide certain support and shelter for those who join, these gods must check those newcomers to avoid letting some dangerous elements get in.

Of course, because Lawrence had communicated with those churches before, those churches during this period can be regarded as watching the puppet’s ascension ceremony.

During this period of time, they naturally checked and confirmed that the puppet is not a false god, but from the point of view of the rules, the next procedure has to be followed.

“Your Excellency, you are finally back!” As Lawrence disembarked, a young man in the most common local work clothes greeted him directly.

But unlike those workers, this young man has a yin and yang fish symbol on his chest. According to the little doll just now, this is one of the five priests she has found in the most recent period.

As a newly ignited existence, Nora was lucky to find five priests in such a short period of time.

And it is normal for Nora to send one of the only five priests to pick up Lawrence. After all, Nora is so busy now that she can’t separate herself, so she can only find someone to complete the job of picking up people for herself.

For this pastor, Lawrence is the closest existence to the **** he most believes in, and the highest leader of the entire church. Therefore, it is very normal to come to greet you.

“… Your Majesty Nora is the guardian of New Sauer Island and the surrounding archipelago and islands, and the master of various microorganisms. Although her current followers are based on a jackal in a small world outside the stars. Lord, but it is not the exclusive **** of a certain race. All intelligent creatures can believe in it, and it will also bless all the creatures who believe in it…”

As they rode a carriage to the city center, many people gathered in the square in the city center. And a pastor of Nora was standing on a makeshift table made up of several boxes and loudly propagating the doctrine of the little doll to the people below.

“How is the effect of this kind of propaganda?” Seeing the interested expressions of the audience, Lawrence asked the priest who was sitting next to him.

“Very good. In less than a week, more than 90% of the people on the island chose to believe in our gods.” Speaking of this, the priest raised his eyebrows and showed an expression of excitement.

“In addition to those in our territory, there are many people on the surrounding islands who choose to believe in our lord Nara, and even half of them on some islands. This is actually far beyond our previous expectations. ”

Lawrence didn’t think this matter was any strange, because the surrounding area was almost a blank area of ​​faith, and the faith in Nora was just able to fill this blank of faith.

For the spread of faith, ~www.mtlnovel.com~, it is naturally difficult to spread faith in a place where it has its own faith, because it requires competition or even war with other existing beliefs.

However, it is much less difficult to spread their beliefs in areas with almost no beliefs like the surrounding areas. As long as these beliefs are useful to the locals, then they will naturally be able to gain the beliefs of the locals.

However, according to the pastor, the followers of the puppets now mainly come from the priesthood of the protector of her area. However, there are not many people who are the main priests and believers in microbes.

As far as he knows, the believers who are now attracted by these priests are mainly concentrated in hospitals, pharmaceutical research institutes, and a series of people involved in fermentation and preservation at work. Because this belief is closely related to their profession.

For example, many Nora in those fish and meat processing factories now believe in her because of the priesthood of microbes. Because after faith, it is conducive to the anti-corrosion problem of various manufactured products.

In addition, the first miracle of the little doll after lighting the sacred fire is to use a lot of small fish and shrimp that are usually used as leftovers as raw materials to ferment, and then make a kind of fish called soy sauce or fish. Dew’s new style condiment.