Chapter 4513 Chapter 4515 [Battle of Faith]
After that, Xiang Nan practiced Kungfu by himself, helped the Goddess Church and the Monkey God Church to preach, and lived a small life with Elizabeth.
At the end of one year, he received one percent pure soul from Cory Busso.
Although the spirit world does not have the concept of time, the mortal world does. Therefore, Koli Buso and Chak Baba naturally know the passage of time through communication with the mortal world.
There are more than 10,000 of these one percent pure souls, gathered in a bottle, which looks quite dazzling and bright, like a light bulb with a hundred watts.
A person's soul is as small as a firefly. When more than 10,000 "fireflies" gather together, the brightness can be imagined.
Xiang Nan then opened the bottle, but did not dare to release all the souls at once, but carefully took out more than a hundred. After all, the only thing that will last forever is to be careful.
Then, he began to absorb these souls through the magic circle, and suddenly a large number of memories poured into his mind.
Although these souls have been purified, the purifying fire will not completely clear their memories. It will only remove those evil thoughts and evil thoughts, so there are still a lot of memories left.
Some of these memories are good, some are boring and meaningless trivial matters, and now they all flood into Xiang Nan's mind.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan's spirituality was strong enough, so he didn't suffer much impact.
But so many complicated memories did bring him a lot of pressure.
After all, more than a hundred people have memories of men, women, old and young, with various identities, occupations, cultures, and all kinds of strange things.
They were all remembered by him, just like a library after an earthquake. All the books were mixed together. It was so chaotic.
"Most of the memories are useless, just forge them all out." Xiang Nan thought.
Forging meditation is to meditate on hitting the soul with a sledgehammer to remove impurities from the soul. And these boring memories are impurities. There is really no use in keeping them and they should be removed.
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Xiang Nan immediately began to use the forging meditation method.
After absorbing more than a hundred souls, Xiang Nan's soul has been slightly strengthened, so he can perform the forging meditation method more freely.
But the stronger the soul, the stronger the hammer struck by meditation will be. It belongs to the category of "the higher the Tao is, the higher the demon is." Of course, the forging effect will be better.
Within a few days, Xiang Nan had refined all those boring memories. But some memories are very good, so Xiang Nan chose to keep them.
For example, there was an old man who was a very good fisherman and once caught a hundred-jin tuna. His fishing skills are pretty good;
There was a young man who was a bard who was good at the oud (known as the king of musical instruments in the Middle East and the ancestor of the guitar) and singing. His playing and singing were very good.
There was a woman who was good at cooking all kinds of fish. She could cook shrimps in more than a hundred ways. She was a very famous local cook. Her cooking skills are very good...
These memories are useful to Xiang Nan. Although he himself is considered versatile, as the saying goes, having more skills is not a burden, and there is no harm in mastering more memories.
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His spirituality increased by about one-third. In addition, I also learned thousands of various skills, such as music, dance, cooking, fishing, hunting, building cars, building houses... It can be said to be a great harvest. During this period, the power of the Goddess Church was also growing. Not only is the number of believers increasing, but more importantly, the cohesion is also strengthening.
In the past, although the Goddess Church had temples, priests, and held some activities regularly, it had no binding force on believers. If the people believe in it, they can leave if they don't, so the organization is very loose and has little appeal.
Just like in ancient China, many people believed in Guan Gong. Even the Hongmen and Qinggang worshiped Guan Erye, and held activities to celebrate Guan Erye's birthday. But almost no organization rebelled under the banner of Guan Erye.
However, after Xiang Nan's reforms, the cohesion of the Goddess Church has been greatly strengthened. As long as believers join the church, they basically don't think about apostasy, so they can only be pious.
In this way, the organizational and appeal power of the Goddess Church has been greatly strengthened, and it really has the momentum to rise up and call out, and the crowd responds.
Because of this, the rulers began to fear the Goddess Church and began to take various measures to suppress, exclude, and expel the Goddess Church.
However, they were taught a lesson by the East India Company and did not dare to blatantly destroy the temple and arrest priests and believers. However, the covert exclusion, suppression, and expulsion still brought a lot of resistance to the development of the Goddess Church. .
After Xiang Nan learned about this, he knew that the development of the Goddess Church had reached a bottleneck.
Today, there are nearly 200 million believers in the Goddess Church, and the global population is only about 800 million.
Most of the remaining population are followers of Christianity, Tianfang, Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions. These religions have been highly integrated with power, and many have even been designated as state religions by rulers.
For example, the state religion of most countries in Europe is Christianity, which is nothing more than Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant; the state religion of the Middle East is basically Tianfang religion; and the people of Tianzhu basically believe in Hinduism.
Taoism and Buddhism in China also have a very wide audience. Although they have not become state religions, they are loved and supported by the rulers.
Therefore, if the Goddess Church wants to continue to develop, it must also control secular power. And if you want to compete for power with other religions, conflicts are bound to break out.
Because those who hold power will not give it away easily. No one will give away the power they have obtained to others without fierce resistance.
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However, before causing a conflict, Xiang Nan asked Keli Buso, "What if the Goddess Church has a dispute with other religions?"
"What kind of dispute?" Corybuso asked doubtfully.
"The battle of faith. It's similar to the Crusades back then." Xiang Nan explained, and recounted the current suppression of the Goddess Church. "Now the believers have basically been divided up. If we want to increase the number of believers, we only need to can compete with other religions, and in doing so, it will be difficult not to cause conflicts.”
"That's it." Corybuso nodded. He naturally knew about the Crusades.
In order to fight for their faith, the Crusaders went on nine expeditions to the East. They fought in a terrible way and were ultimately defeated. And this also caused the Christian faith to waver in people's hearts.
If their "Lord" is really all-knowing and all-powerful, and the only true God, why did the Crusaders who believed in Him suffer repeated defeats, and eventually even lost the Holy City?
After people's minds changed, the Renaissance began and the mind was liberated. Following the religious reform, the Age of Discovery, and the Enlightenment, came one after another...
"I'm worried that if there is a dispute over faith, will God, Buddha, God, and Brahma be personally involved?" Xiang Nan asked.
He is now invincible, but he is definitely no match for God. In particular, gods such as God, God, Buddha, and Brahma were so powerful that he could hardly imagine them.
If they were to leave the field in person, it would be absolutely impossible for him to win. Even if people don't end up, he can't stand the trouble as long as he is alone, and he believes that Cory Busso can't stand it either, so he first explores the truth.
If it's too dangerous, forget it.