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Chapter 9: New Theology
At this time, Isa Nebet, the heroine of this game, was leading a group of refugees in Luye Territory, waiting for the lord to distribute relief food.
Because she deviated from the storyline of the original game, Isa did not become a saint, but returned to the North which was at war, and used her abilities to practice medicine and save lives at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation.
With the continuous collapse of the northern front, a large number of farmlands were destroyed, resulting in a large number of rural population becoming refugees.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Rescue in the north could no longer accommodate so many refugees, so these refugees had no choice but to become displaced persons and flee southward.
It was in this context that Isa left the church and fled south with this group of refugees. However, as the number of refugees increased, Isa began to become overwhelmed. The savings she had accumulated from working in the royal capital had run out, but more and more refugees followed Isa to flee.
"Old village chief, drink this bottle of holy water and you will get better soon. May the goddess protect you."
After saying that, Isa handed the medicine bottle to an old man's mouth.
"Sister, how can an old man like me use such precious holy water? Or... let's leave it to the young people."
The old man was barely breathing and it seemed as if he didn't have much time left.
"Don't worry, old village chief. I still have a lot. The relief food from the Lars family was transported to the castle yesterday. It will be distributed soon."
With Isa's persuasion, the old man finally drank some holy water, and his expression looked much better.
In fact, Isa's potion had been used up on the way. The water in the bottle has a more accurate name in modern times - placebo, which is actually ordinary river water plus wood ash.
For Isa, the three years of studying in the royal city was like a dream. Isa once wondered what would happen if she had accepted the church’s invitation to become the saint’s maid in the royal city. At least she wouldn’t be wandering with a group of refugees like she is now, right?
Even his originally eye-catching silver hair turned into a dull gray-white during the escape.
But Isa has no regrets. Even if she is given another chance, Isa feels that she will still return to the North to save the refugees.
After taking care of the old man, Isa returned to the team. She had been in Luye Territory for several days, but the local lord, Count Yager, had no intention of distributing relief food.
Because there were more and more refugees in the North, Grand Duke Lars issued a relief order, ordering all vassals of the Lars family in the North to distribute relief food to the refugees who came to the territory, and the Lars family was responsible for compensating the nobles who distributed the relief food with food or money.
The refugees naturally heard the news, but unfortunately, so far no refugee group has received the so-called relief food.
Looking at the holy light in her hand that was gradually dimming, Isa fell into confusion.
The strength of a clergyman's holy light does not represent whether his faith is firm, because the holy light is affected not only by faith but also by magical talent.
But if a priest's holy light becomes weaker and weaker, or even dims, then the only possibility is that the priest's own faith is shaken.
In order to reflect on why her faith was shaken, Isa has been studying the scriptures in the past few days, but the more she studied, the more she found that reality and the scriptures were incompatible.
The goddess clearly taught that all people are God's people and that God's people are all equal in status, but why are people divided into rich and poor, noble and humble?
The goddess clearly taught that sin is unforgivable and must be severely punished to cleanse it, so why can the rich escape punishment by using indulgences?
Excommunication is clearly the power of the Goddess and the Pope, so why would monks threaten ordinary believers with excommunication and force them to donate money?
The goddess' oracle clearly required her people to unite, but under the interpretation of the high-level bishop, the oracle became that if someone hits you on the left cheek, you should extend your right cheek to be hit too.
Originally, Isa didn't think there was anything wrong with the church's annotated scriptures in her hand. But when Isa really returned to the North for a field investigation, she found that the beautiful world in the scriptures did not exist at all.
The demons will not stop the war just because you offer them your right cheek, and the so-called unity of the church is only aimed at those nobles.
The poorer the believer, the more "donations" they need to make.
Issa felt that her faith was indeed shaken.
Especially when the refugees who followed Isa began to starve to death, but no lord or noble was willing to release food, and even the churches in various places closed their doors.
If nothing is done, I'm afraid all the refugees brought out from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation will starve to death in Luye Territory.
Among the refugees at this time, a man was sharpening a shovel on a stone to guard against bandits along the way.
Although the rusty iron sheet of the shovel did not become sharper after the man's grinding, the man still continued to grind with red eyes.
In the man's arms was a shriveled and smelly little corpse.
Two days ago, Count Jager opened the door and released food, but it was just a small bag of food, and he wanted to exchange it for a woman, and it had to be a young and beautiful woman.
This is not relief food, because Count Jager said at the time: "First, let's define what a refugee is. Those who can reach Luye Territory are people who have the strength to eat a full meal, so they are naturally not refugees, so I can't give you relief food."
The man’s wife was chosen to enter the castle on that day and was given a bag of food for her children.
But the bag of food seemed to be expired rice that had gone wrong. After eating it, the man's child had a high fever that wouldn't go away. Because there was no medicine and due to long-term malnutrition, he died the next day.
Isa's holy water couldn't save the child, and neither could the increasingly dim holy light.
No one blamed Isa. This silver-haired nun sold everything she had along the way, even her certificate of identity as a nun, just to exchange for more food so that everyone could survive until the territory where relief food was distributed. Isa had long become the spiritual leader of everyone.
But every time Isa thought of the man holding the child's body and crying in front of her, saying, "The goddess must like this child, so she took the child to the kingdom of God," Isa's heart seemed to be gripped by something.
In fact, not only the men, but also many refugees who were waiting for relief food outside the castle tightly grasped the farm tools in their hands.
Some people even chopped down the wood and sharpened it into spears. Everyone unconsciously moved closer to Isa.
Because two days ago, Count Jacob not only exchanged expired rice for the women among the refugees, but also saw that Isa could not produce the church's credentials, and tried to force Isa into the castle, but was pushed away by Isa.
Unexpectedly, Count Jager was not angry, but became even more excited. He gave Isa two days to consider. If Isa refused again after two days, Count Jager would send guards to kill all the beggars blocking the gate of his castle.
During these two days, Isa did not sit idly by. Although the holy light became dimmer, Isa still preached every day. The only difference was that the content of the sermons was Isa's own insights from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation to Luye Territory.
This is a theory that originates from church scriptures but deviates from traditional interpretation. It focuses more on poverty, oppression and injustice, strives for social justice and equality, and emphasizes the coexistence of divine power and human rights. What are the means to achieve all this?
It's violence.
Isa has realized that studying medicine cannot save the North, and only struggle can bring liberation.
Although these ideas are still in the enlightenment stage, if Lind, who is far away in the gray-collar world, heard them, he would probably shout "WTF! Liberation theology?"
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