Of course, the Spiritual Church has developed to such an extent that the local United States Bureau of Investigation branch in Santu City has actually paid attention to this newly emerged sect.
However, the level of attention is not high.
Because the core circle of the Theosophical sect takes the route of an almost private association.
Core believers who are qualified to participate in the festival and understand the important information of the church must undergo a round of secret testing by the "Ring of the Abyss" (actually Ivan uses 001 to remotely peek).
Although it is not ruled out that there are spies from the intelligence department around these people who may inadvertently eavesdrop on relevant information, but after all, the time is still short, and the quality of the core believers themselves is relatively high, so this problem has not yet arisen.
This has led to the fact that Archbishop Flomingo of the Church is suspected of possessing extraordinary abilities, which has not yet been exposed to the local intelligence agencies.
So far, the Scholomance Church’s registration with the Investigation Bureau only includes “a community of interests that brings together multiple forces,” “a vehicle for secret alliances between the city’s dignitaries in the name of faith,” and other labels that Gate 0 doesn’t want to deal with.
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Of course, it’s hard to say what the situation will be like if the church continues to expand, especially if it leaves its strong base of Santu City.
Therefore, after receiving the oracle of "Yes", Flomingo also realized this and did not rush to expand blindly. Instead, he continued to strengthen the invasion of faith against the city's high-level dignitaries while trying to stabilize the interference of other religions.
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Yes, although the Scholomance Church had previously wiped out two major gangs and dealt a brutal blow to the cults, it later took advantage of the general trend of purges to drive out all the cult forces in the city.
But those equally legal sects have also obviously begun to be wary of the expansion of the Spiritual Church.
Let’s do some basic knowledge here.
In the eastern part of the Nole continent, the mainstream belief spread can be called the belief in the gods of heaven and earth.
This belief system, which uses ancient myths and legends as its skeleton and cultural ideas as its core, has been continuously improved for thousands of years and has generally become very mature.
According to the differences in core concepts, the sects under the belief system of the gods of heaven and earth can be roughly divided into two types: the Mingshen sect and the Mirror Xing sect.
Most Myojin sects are relatively old and have distinctive characteristics, that is, they clearly worship one or more "gods" as idols.
Through daily fasting, chanting, and observing precepts, we pray for God's protection so that our souls can enter the holy realm of heaven after death.
Although the Jingxing Sect, which appeared later, also respects the gods of heaven and earth and recognizes the authority of the gods, it advocates more of "doing the deeds of gods as humans."
That is to say, he was born to save people, cultivated merits and virtues, and finally his soul was transcended.
Under the two major categories of Mingshen Sect and Mirror Xing Sect, there are also many branches.
There are many branches that even blend the ideas of both parties with each other, resulting in new ideas, and even "modern alternatives" that incorporate the characteristics of other religions.
Strictly speaking, the Church of the Spirit is a branch of the Myojin sect, which believes in "Ye", the true god of hell, and abides by its precepts.
But you must know that Santu City, and even the entire Hedong region, is actually the traditional sphere of influence of the Jingxing Sect!
Because the Holy Land of the Jingxing Sect and the Tiandang Mountain Liuli Sect, which is also one of the five major sects in the belief system of gods, is located in Tiandang Mountain in the east of Hedong.
It's only eight or nine hours' drive from Santu City at most.
Under this circumstance, apart from the Liuli Sect's church, even the other small churches in Santu City are all from the Jingxing Sect.
A Myojin sect church suddenly appeared. It was really eye-catching.
But at first, other Mirror Movement churches thought that the so-called Spiritual Church was just a new trick played by underworld organizations like the Flame Society.
Out of fear of these evil forces and the idea of "you just take jujube pills", they didn't pay too much attention.
But now, these churches are surprised to find that this thing that did not even have its own classics before and was purely a grass-roots team is not only not dead, but is actually getting more and more alive!
Recently, five new psychic churches are under construction in Santu City, and the lower-level believers have spread from Hong Street to most of the entertainment industry circles in the city, and the expansion is extremely fierce.
What makes these churches even more uncomfortable is that more and more prominent, wealthy and wealthy donors are being pulled away by the Spiritual Church and will no longer come to them to make donations or offerings.
The daily income of a bunch of small and large churches has plummeted within a month, and is now generally cut in half.
The so-called cutting off a person's financial path is like killing one's parents!
As soon as these churches counted the donation boxes, they immediately became angry.
People with the same hatred and hatred joined together, planning to give a damn "Mingshen Sect" heretic a hard blow and attack the other party's arrogance.
But after a round of investigation, these churches encountered difficulties.
This is a dog biting a hedgehog, there is no way to bite it!
The Spiritual Church’s model of absorbing ordinary believers is actually closely tied to the actual industry.
The church's current main source of believers are practitioners in its entertainment industry.
Less than half of the city's bars, amusement halls, cinemas, dance halls, chess and card rooms, tea rooms, board game bars, bathhouses, hotels, etc. are all under the control of the Scholomance Church, and it also has many shares in other industries.
And these are not illegal businesses.
It is even said that the entertainment stores under the control of the Scholomance Church are so clean that there is nothing illegal at all.
Coupled with the marketing methods of many chain discounts, it is more popular with ordinary people above the middle class.
This becomes very difficult to handle.
After all, believers themselves still have to eat from other people's rice bowls. They can't throw away their rice bowls for the sake of faith, right?
As for those powerful people.
The normal way for Der Spiegel churches to compete for high-end believers is to have a "debate" with their enemies.
After a lot of quoting scriptures and mixing in private goods, as long as you say you have won, it will naturally be more powerful, and rich people will be more willing to believe that your church is more capable and more effective.
I am willing to wave a lot of money and donate money to wash away my "sins" and pray for good fortune.
but…
No matter how these churches send out invitations for debate, the Spiritual Church simply ignores them.
And the reason is very good
——We are members of the Mingshen sect, we only worship our own gods and do not participate in anything else!
Hmm...that sounds like there's nothing wrong with that?
At this time, a group of church members who were accustomed to being surrounded by the Jingxing Sect were shocked to discover that the Mingshen Sect really didn't engage in debates.
But the problem is, the serious Mingshen sect is not like you to expand like crazy!
Aren’t they all living their own little lives behind closed doors, chanting sutras, farming, and advocating self-reliance without accounting for cause and effect every day?
Usually at this time, the churches that are connected in series should tacitly gather a group of believers to go to the opponent's church to cause trouble.
A few years ago, there were foreign sects who wanted to settle in Santu City, but they were driven out in this way.
But this time, a group of priests gathered together to discuss it for two days and decided not to dare.
Who doesn’t know what the Spiritual Church is originally? It’s all local!
That's the transformation of one of the city's biggest gangsters, the Flame!
Moreover, after the great purges, the favorite thing for countless former gang members who could no longer survive was to seek refuge in the Scholomance Church. After conversion, they would "reform" and then be assigned to work as security guards at the church's properties.
If it were to be a martial arts fight, a group of churches with low combat effectiveness would be beaten to shit by their opponents!
A group of priests from the Mirror School looked at the increasingly thin donation box, and immediately gnashed their teeth anxiously, wishing they could take out the villain and curse Brother Floming to death!
It's a pity, not to mention that there is no extraordinary power in this world. Even if there is, they don't have the ability. It is the traditional performance of the Myojin sect!
In short, a bunch of churches were holding back their anger and tried every possible way to cause trouble, but in the end, some disgusting loopholes were found for them.
Well, your channeling church may be suspected of tax evasion!
Report Report!
The Channeling Cathedral was forcibly modified from a bar and seems to be inconsistent with the "Church Specification Management Regulations"!
Report Report!
This series of reports made Flomingo so sick that he even wanted to drag out these bastard priests and bleed them one by one.
He is a mafia boss, when has he ever encountered such despicable tactics? You still have the nerve to say that you are a Taoist... Well...
Well, it seems that everyone is really not a gangster now...