Our family is in decline

Lance remembered a very interesting thing when he heard this.

In the game, Leonard will have a fixed negative trait of [kleptomania] at the beginning. During the process of entering the dungeon adventure, there is a chance that the loot will be put into his pocket.

It's okay to steal a thousand or eight hundred pieces, but if something important is taken away, the player's blood pressure will skyrocket.

This behavior is very inconsistent with his status as a church crusader, so players have always ridiculed Leonard, the "Light Thief".

Because at the beginning of this title, Lance was also worried about whether Leonard would touch his trophies, so he was responsible for most of the tasks of cleaning up the battlefield. Apart from the reason for the sacrifice, he was just to prevent this.

But in fact, he found that Leonard was not very interested in money and material desires.

He would give them several bonuses every time he went on a mission. Disma spent his money on whoring and gambling, while Barristan liked to go to the pub to drink after get off work. Only Leonard was not interested in any of these. Use the money to help orphans and needy families.

Before, he couldn't figure out why he got kleptomania but why he didn't steal his own. Now Lance finally knew the reason.

Because he gave real money to Leonard, and later he promulgated a new policy, and the territory subsidized money to provide reasonable assistance to orphans and widows.

Leonard didn't know what the lord was thinking, and he seemed a little disappointed when he asked his question.

"If there really is a God, why did he allow the world to become like this? Has the Holy Light abandoned me?"

"If you want to understand this, you have to know the origin of the concept of God."

Sure enough, when Leonard heard this, he seemed a little curious about the origin of God, and Lance immediately put on the look of a scholar and spoke slowly.

"The source of fear is unknown. In the age of human ignorance, there are too many things in the world that are difficult for humans to understand, such as natural disasters, man-made disasters, life and death issues, etc. At this time, humans are fragile and powerless, so we need help psychologically.

For example, when night comes, humans can only huddle in their nests, always wary of those nocturnal beasts, because safety at night cannot be guaranteed, so they define night as 'evil', and when day comes, light will replace darkness, and humans Safety is guaranteed, so light is defined as 'good'.

However, the human beings of that era had poor knowledge. They did not understand the principle of conversion between day and night at all, so they artificially imagined an extremely powerful existence to control everything, and this artificially imagined existence was called "God".

This type of god is the law of nature and will not change due to human will at all. Whether you worship it or not will not affect nature itself. Just like I don’t believe in the holy light, but the sun will still rise from the east, you believe Holy light, but the sun will still set from the west. "

Leonard fell into deep thought after hearing this, and upon seeing this, Lance asked another question.

"What is your definition of God?"

"omnipotent."

"Since gods are omnipotent, why do they still need to be worshiped?" Lance smiled, looking very frivolous. "It is always humans who need gold coins. The so-called gods are just an excuse for them to drive you to plunder. reason."

"Sir, stop talking!"

Just as Lance was about to start talking, Leonard suddenly interrupted him. He looked around cautiously and made sure no one noticed before explaining in a low voice, "If the church knows about this, he will be beaten." Heretics are put on trial.”

"Do you think I'm a heretic?" Lance looked at him with a smile.

He looked like he was not afraid at all of the church, which was even more terrifying than the empire.

Because now that he has the courage brought by his own strength, if he really provokes the church, he will run away and leave the ancestor this big trouble to them.

Anyway, I can excel wherever my abilities go, and I no longer have only one way to go like in the beginning.

However, his words were stopped by Leonard.

If according to the logic of the church, the lord is a cultist who spreads heretical doctrines, even the methods he showed before can be said to be evil arts.

But I witnessed the lord all the way. He went to the cursed land alone to fulfill the promise made thousands of years ago for the sake of world stability. In just ten days, he quelled the internal troubles, defeated the foreign enemies, and revitalized this lifeless town.

He is more holy light than those who preach the holy light, dispelling the darkness and bringing himself the hope of salvation.

"no."

Leonard answered in the affirmative with a serious look on his face.

"No need to be so serious, we are just chatting." Lance smiled and nodded when he heard this. He was finally sure that he was more important than the church in Leonard's mind, and only then did he really reveal his sharp claws.

"To understand this, we have to talk about the origin of the concept of religion."

After Lance figured out his attitude, he didn't show much reaction. It was as casual as chatting with friends over barbecue.

“Because human beings have poor cognition and habitually attribute all unknowns to God, then God becomes an omniscient and omnipotent existence, with the power to explain all unknowns, and at the same time, God is given powerful authority.

But as I just said, God is a natural law in the beginning, and He is not affected by human will, so this authority is vacant.

God doesn’t care, but this divine power is full of infinite temptations for humans, so some people steal divine power. They compile scriptures to monopolize the right to interpret God, allowing ordinary people to become God’s servants, and they turn into God’s spokespersons. , becoming a 'god' who actually enjoys divine power.

Religion is an organization created by a group of people who steal divine power.

The top-level bishops and priests hold the power of religious interpretation through the compilation of scriptures and enjoy the highest privileges.

The second level consists of priests, nuns and knights. They are responsible for collecting religious taxes to ensure the operation of institutions, monopolizing cultural education and brainwashing believers through religious schools. They are also responsible for protecting the upper levels and attacking enemies through violent means. These people enjoy certain privileges.

The third level is ordinary believers. They have no privileges and must support the first two levels in the form of offerings and taxes. They are obviously being exploited without knowing it.

The fourth level is those who do not believe in religion or believe in others. They are directly excluded from the system and labeled as heretics. Their fate is not..."

Lance was peeling back the fig leaf of the church layer by layer, revealing the twisted core inside.

But Leonard was a little confused, frowned and asked:

"If the church is really so bad, why does it still preach all kinds of truth, goodness and beauty?"

Leonard also met many wise men during his wanderings, but no one had ever told him this.

He felt that the lord could answer the questions that had been bothering him, and he urgently needed more explanations.