Sui Xiong felt that for the gods, the church was not only a tool for preaching, but also the embodiment of their ideas.
Perhaps from the perspective of strategy and practical interests, the gods should encourage or at least acquiesce to various ideas and factions in the church. That was exactly what the gods, such as Wenner, the Lord of War, and Manissy, the Goddess of Wealth, had done. But Sui Xiong did not want such a church.
What he wanted was a church that was relatively pure, full of vigor and fighting spirit. Although everyone had different ideas, they were basically the same in terms of basic life ideas and goals.
He knew that his idea was a bit too idealistic and unrealistic. It would not be easy to establish such an organization, even with the support of a true god. But he felt that if there were not enough conditions, it would be fine. Since he was a powerful god, he could know what his believers were thinking, and he could grant power to the clergymen according to their compatibility with his ideas. So there was no reason not to do this.
Of course, this would reduce the number of devout believers and the number of clergymen. But as the saying goes, quality is more important than quantity. A high-level clergyman was more powerful than a hundred low-level clergymen. A shrine presided over by an outstanding officiant was more valuable than an altar of ten grass-roots groups.
At least, that was what Sui Xiong thought.
So after careful consideration, a few days later, he issued another oracle. He asked his believers, especially the clergymen, to study his doctrine and compare it with their lives. They could reflect on whether they had a tendency to be secular and vulgar, so as to purify their thoughts.
He did not criticize the "greedy" clergymen. Instead, he set up a new department in the church, so that they could deal with more society and things that required more flexibility and flexibility.
In this regard, he received a lot of support and advice from the God of Law, Lao Branth.
The God of Law, Lao Branth, was often respectfully called the "Lord of Justice." Although he was not the main god of a divine system, so he could not be called the "Lord of so-and-so," what he had done, especially the Saint Samurai under his command, had won him such prestige.
The Saint Samurai of the God of Law were a group of stubborn old fogies. They respected and maintained the dignity of the law, and maintained the normal order of society at all costs. In most cases, they protected the weak, restricted the powerful, and maintained order that was beneficial to the middle and lower classes. But if necessary, they would also crack down on those who resisted violently to help the rulers maintain social order.
According to the "Nine Camps", the Saint Samurai of the God of Law probably belonged to the "Good Order" and the "Neutral Order", with more of the former and more of the latter.
Unlike the churches of the Lord of War and the Goddess of Wealth, the Church of the God of Law was much purer. From priests to priests to Saint Samurai, they all strictly followed the teachings of the God of Law. Even the slightest details had to be prayed at the last minute.
This kind of inflexible and inflexible approach naturally greatly reduced the efficiency of work, so much so that the clergymen of the God of Law were often ridiculed as' blockheads' and 'brains full of stones'. But it was undeniable that it was this stubborn and inflexible style that earned them the trust of the whole society. Everyone knew that the clergymen of the God of Law absolutely followed the rules. Even if they did not agree with the rules, they would only choose to leave, or persuade the rule maker, and would never fight against the rules.
With such a reputation, the inflexible clergymen of the God of Law were welcomed even in the most chaotic areas. Even the evil lords showed a friendly attitude to these strong people who maintained order and rules.
The key to all this was the "purity of the organization."
Among the gods, there were some who paid more attention to the purity of the church than the God of Law. But no one could do better than the God of Law if they wanted to control the "moderation" and turn it into the strength of the organization, rather than a restriction that hindered the development of the organization.
So when Sui Xiong wanted to promote the internal rectification of the Church of the Void Mask and improve the purity of the organization, he naturally thought of asking the God of Law for advice.
The God of Law was very happy that Sui Xiong came to ask him for advice, and told him a lot of experience. He also sent several clergymen who had made outstanding achievements in the development of the church to help Sui Xiong, and two of them were even his Holy Spirits.
With the help of this group of experts, Sui Xiong quickly sorted out a series of documents and plans, and carried out large-scale re-training for the clergymen of the Church of the Void Mask. He made a very long timetable, and it was planned that it would take two to three years for all the clergymen to be recalled to the main temple in Void City for re-training.
The first to be trained were the clergymen who were sent to the Commonwealth of Mifata to preach. Because of the influence of missionary work, these clergymen were the most friendly to lords and nobles, or in other words, they were the most influenced by the upper class. Sui Xiong gathered them together, analyzed the development of the society, and reviewed the struggle between the upper class and the lower class, so that they would be shocked and realize their mistakes, and reconsider their position.
Of course, some of them had changed their minds, and no longer thought that development and progress should be from the bottom up, and that they should be based on the middle and lower class people. For these people, Sui Xiong did not reprimand them severely, but decided to teach them a good lesson.
Although he was not a historian, he had seen a lot of arguments on the Internet, and naturally knew that this kind of thinking was actually quite popular — it was nothing more than the so-called "reformism."
In the network society of the earth, reformism was quite popular, because in areas where the Internet was widely available, the economic conditions were generally not too bad, and the social contradictions were relatively less intense, so "reformism" was naturally more popular than "struggle."
In this world, the clergymen who were inclined to the direction of reformism were also mostly born in rich families, and usually when they preached, they were in contact with people who had relatively better living conditions, or they were active in places where the lords were relatively more open-minded. Therefore, the social contradictions they felt were relatively mild, so they felt that as long as they promoted the enlightenment of the upper class, they could promote the development and progress of the whole society.
The lesson that Sui Xiong taught them was to arrange them in those areas where the lords were not open-minded, and the power of the Church of the Void Mask was relatively weak, so that they could experience the naivety and ridiculousness of the idea of "reformism."
Progress through reformism? Of course, it was possible. The premise was that you could first force those who had power to accept the reformism.
There was no such thing as reformism and progress through propaganda and persuasion!
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