Chapter 878: Parliament steps in to promote the development of Protestantism!
"The war in the Netherlands is currently in a stalemate, with the front lines stagnating in the central area..."
"The third batch of magicians who went to the front line for training returned. The casualty rate was less than 3%. None of the magicians sent by Thunder Horn died..."
"The Parliament has observed that a new group of glorious divine priests have appeared in the Netherlands. They do not obey the orders of the Holy See, and they do not even think that their magic comes from the Holy See..."
"Gretel!"
"Gretel!"
"...Gretel Nordmark!"
"ah?!"
Gretel was startled and came back to his senses. Unfortunately, he had a lot of tasks during this period, and he was busy day and night:
Daily hospital work needs to be done, and daily subordinates need to be guided;
Magic needs to be practiced, mental power needs to be practiced, and physical combat needs to be practiced. At the very least, it cannot stop before becoming a knight;
The art of disguise has not yet reached the teacher's requirements, and it takes at least one hour a day;
The teacher opened up a lot of internal information on level 7, 8, and 9 magic. Not only did it include magic descriptions, but also combat records and image descriptions. It was so hard to memorize it every day...
If the spell caster had not ensured 8 hours of sleep every day, otherwise there would be no spells the next day. Gretel doubted that the teacher would really let him stay up all night, and then another, up to 4 hours of sleep a day.
Under such a tense pace, it was normal for him to skip the weekly meetings.
What's more, the regular meeting hasn't started yet, and the teacher hasn't come yet. They are the brothers and sisters gathered together to watch the recent news broadcast by the tower spirit...
"Gretel, did you hear what I just said?"
Senior Brother Belbo raised his voice slightly. If you simply want to be a magician, you can naturally bury your head in the laboratory and ignore what is happening outside the window;
However, as a disciple of the Lord of Thunder, he naturally has to bear more responsibilities than others. Without knowing anything about the situation and changes in the outside world, it is easy to be led into a trap, which in turn affects the entire sect.
Not to mention, a low position and a narrow vision will ultimately be of no benefit to the magician's own development in the long run.
He stared at the little junior brother who was distracted in the meeting, and was prepared to give him a few words of truth if Gretel couldn't answer the answer. Well, don't be too harsh, little Gretel can still be taught...
Unexpectedly, he did not get the chance to preach. Gretel blinked his eyes, as if sleepwalking, and actually started to repeat:
"The Parliament has observed that a group of different clergymen have appeared in the Netherlands... They do not think that their magical powers come from the Holy See... Hey!"
After retelling this point, he screamed like a cat that stretched out its claws on the pan and burned itself. Archmage Baierbo suppressed a sigh:
"What's wrong?"
What a surprise!
"Justified by faith!" Gretel opened his eyes wide, looking like "You didn't even think of this", and gestured:
"You can still have divine magic if you don't obey the Holy See. Divine magic does not come from the Holy See - this is justification by faith! They actually even came up with this! This is a big killer. If it is played well, it can directly split the Holy See.
of!"
"How to say?"
"Everyone can directly contact God! Everyone can read the classics on their own, rely on their own beliefs to contact God, and obtain divine magic. No one is nobler than anyone else!" Gretel waved his hands wildly:
"Then the Glorious Holy See, the spokesperson and agent of God on earth, go away!"
"Little Gretel is right." A clear voice suddenly sounded. Everyone present stood up and turned around. Before everyone saluted, the Lord of Thunder waved his hand and said leisurely:
"We were discussing this just now. Historically, there have been many people who have obtained magical powers independently of the Holy See, but most of them were burned to death by the Holy See. This time the power of the Holy See is weakened, and the opportunity is better - well, Gretel,
Go on, how should we make use of this?"
"ah?"
Gretel was stunned.
use?
How to use it?
No one is taking advantage of it!
Historically, it seems that Martin Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses, and then Protestantism appeared, and then they started fighting...
What impressed him most about Protestantism now was that it was the Church of England. King Henry VIII of England remarried, divorced and remarried, gave up Catholicism and turned to Protestantism...
It seems that in history, the bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants was no less than the number of people who died during the Crusades...
The above are all fragments of knowledge found in junior high school and high school history books. As for how to use it, this is difficult for him, it is not written in the book!
By the way, ninety-five theses!
"I think a theoretical system may be needed to unify these clergy." He hesitated while turning his brain rapidly:
"Let them know that their approach is correct. They can use this theory to promote, influence more people, and confront the Glorious Holy See..."
Theoretical systems are needed at all times. Whether it is the Renaissance or anything else, we must have the guidance of a theoretical system to move forward steadily and far. The more Grete talks, the faster his mind spins:
"This theory must be rigorous, complete, and self-contained. It is best to refute many of the current practices of the Glorious Holy See and deny them theoretically..."
For example, indulgences or something? Alas, I don’t know if the Glorious Holy See here sells indulgences? Maybe they don’t sell them at all. After all, selling holy water is enough...
The Lord of Thunder watched the news on the battlefield of Gretel Netherland with great interest. After layers of screening and discussions at the review meeting, only these few were reported to their legendary mage.
The only thing that aroused their interest was this one, and the only one that had been discussed heatedly before. And little Grete, dozing off and wandering around, actually focused on this one at a glance!
What is this? Intuition?
"How should I write it? What should I write specifically?"
He asked deliberately. Grete spread his hands and said confidently:
"I have no idea."
"Um?!"
"I really don't know!" Gretel's momentum instantly dropped from "reasonable and confident" to "not justified yet strong", and within a second, it quickly dropped to "aggrieved":
"I'm not a believer in the Lord of Radiance! I'm not studying theology! How could I know!"
Martin Luther was a professional theological scholar! I am not! He was a doctor of theology and a professor of theology, and he had devoted himself to research for decades! Such long-term research is fake. At least he had a thorough understanding of the doctrine!
I, this "Ninety-five Theses", if you ask me to write it, I can probably only write it like this -
Article 1, justification by faith. Human beings are directly connected to God because of faith, without having to go through the Holy See. Articles 2 to 95: omitted...
If Martin Luther had really written like this, it would have been impossible for him to found Protestantism, and it would have been very possible for him to have been beaten to death.
Fortunately, he is now backed by the Magic Council, and professional matters can only be left to professionals. Gretel calmly passed the blame:
"Find a group of priests from the Nature Religion, the Temple of the God of War, and the Temple of the Goddess of Spring to draft together! They are priests after all!"
Archmage Baierbo looked slightly sideways. You said this as if you were not a natural priest - so far, how many doctrines and classics of the Natural God Church have you read? How many have you memorized?
This opening is to find people from the three temples to write it together, so you just leave it to the parliament, right?
The Lord of Thunder also complained silently. After thinking about it, Gretel is more inclined to be a magician, which is what everyone is happy to see. He nodded calmly:
"This is one of the alternative options. Well, if we adopt this option, what should we do? After writing it, send people to distribute it on the mainland? Or should we just use [Memory Weaving Technique] and choose someone to spread it?"
In fact, after the plan was discussed, the undead legend was the most interested.
The Immortal Lord even volunteered to go to the mainland to choose a suitable partner. Then, he used the nine-ring magic [Memory Weaving Technique] to inject the entire theory into that person's mind...
"Well, this might not be good..." Grete thought about it and then dismissed it:
"If such a long story suddenly appeared in my mind, I would definitely think that I was crazy, or else, I was affected by someone else's spell. It's better for this kind of thing to grow naturally..."
That's right, that's right! The Lord of Thunder secretly gave his disciple a thumbs up. In fact, after the Immortal proposed the plan, he was immediately slapped back by Steiner, using the exact same reason.
Sure enough, they were dead bones. There was no brain in the skull. He couldn't see things that a child could see!
He squirted silently in his heart and continued to urge Gretel. Gretel couldn't be pushed, so he quickly used his brain and decided to plagiarize history again:
"Well, if that doesn't work, just find some theological researchers from the Glorious Holy See. It's best to be honest and simple, not dissatisfied with the style of the core members of the Holy See, and also famous. The best ones are the best, born in poverty, and relatively young.
, Are you energetic?"
The things they come up with should look more satisfactory? More rigorous, more meticulous, and less likely to be refuted by the original system?
It was done by outsiders, and something is always wrong...
"Then what?" The Lord of Thunder smiled. Gretel's eyes widened:
"Then let it go! There will definitely be those local nobles and local lords who are in need of divine magic, may still believe in the Lord of Radiance a little bit, but hate being controlled by the Holy See, so they can lend a helping hand!"
Why was Martin Luther preserved at that time? It seemed because he was German? By the way, he was German, and the Holy See was in Italy. Germany wanted independence, but everyone didn't deal with it...
Gretel thought about it and added:
"Oh, it's best to choose such a person from the local lords from the beginning!"
"And then?" The Lord of Thunder became more and more interesting the more he listened. He simply took out the things discussed by everyone at the legendary meeting one by one, and teased Gretel to speak:
"Does the parliament want to get in touch with those people? Does it want to win them over? Does it want to fund them and support them?"
Grete shook his head, and then shook his head again. That means his warrior level is not high, and he cannot shake his head fast, otherwise he may have left an afterimage:
"It's better not to, right? Most of the people who would make such a theory are those with the strongest and purest beliefs... Direct funding would be a bad thing! Let the local lords win over them! Let's win over the local lords!"
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