When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 643: People cannot voluntarily become slaves!
It was not only Rufair who left on Rufair's ferry, but also noble students such as Silvanik and a new issue of Pravda.

The ferry docked at the edge of the wild spider forest, and pieces of newspaper wrapped in brown paper tied with hemp rope were stuffed into the covered carriage.

Two horses neighed and galloped along the mortar road on the Holy See-Jeanne d'Arc highway.

Not only carriages loaded with newspapers, but also carriages loaded with woolen cloth, mortar, peat and other goods were also running wildly on the road.

The coachmen, wearing thick woolen robes and with water bags filled with beer hanging around their necks, lined up on the wide road, telling crude jokes they had just heard.

The distance from the Wild Spider Forest at Nanze Lake to Fort Jeanne was about 120 miles. It took Horn and his team 10 days to walk there. But after the construction of this mortar road, the coachmen could easily complete this difficult journey in just one day.

After the construction of the Erno River is completed, this time can even be shortened to half a day or even a morning.

The coachmen set out in the morning and arrived at Joan of Arc in the evening, where they would split up outside the city.

The cargoes carrying mortar and woolen cloth were headed south to the industrial docks, while the cargoes carrying newspapers and peat were headed toward the docks in the city.

The porters at the dock picked up a bundle of newspapers in each hand and threw them into the cabin in a relay manner. The peat had to be processed into honeycomb coal before it could be loaded onto the ship.

The flat-bottomed mail barges would set out at night, crossing the stars and lights reflected on the water, sailing on the dark river channel driven by the autumn wind.

The only difference now is that, except for a few bridges that cannot be demolished, most of the toll bridges used for collecting taxes have been demolished one by one.

So it only takes 3 days, or even less than 3 days, for the latest issue of Pravda to appear in the dock area of ​​Rapid City.

Even the Truth arrived in Rapid City before Rufair, and was delivered to the newspaper boys who were anxiously waiting at the dock.

The Holy Fathers specially set up a fund in Rapid City to transfer orphans from the poorhouse to serve as newspaper boys, and even arranged for them to learn to read.

These orphans, dressed in tattered linen clothes and each holding a cloth bag, began to shout along the street, waving the newspapers in their hands.

"New Paper, New Paper!"

"The latest truth is out!"

"There are 4 newspapers today. I won't charge more for more!"

The window on the second floor of the hotel suddenly opened, and a young monk's head popped out: "That newsboy, give me a newspaper."

For the loss of a large copper coin minted in Rapid City worth half a dinar, Mudie got the latest copy of Pravda.

Holding the Pravda, Mudie did not return to the second floor, but sat directly in the restaurant on the first floor, ordered a bowl of oatmeal porridge and barley tea, and read while eating.

In the past, there would always be a glass of beer on the breakfast table of the people of Thousand Valley, but after Meliati came to power, the "Frugality Decree" was issued.

The ordinance includes a provision that prohibits restaurants from serving any alcohol before noon and encourages citizens to report it, who can receive one-third of the fine.

So these hostels and restaurants had to replace beer with barley tea, but sometimes they would also provide fermented barley tea to regular customers.

As assistant monks of Kasha County, those who perform well will be sent to Rapid City for training and examinations when winter comes.

As one of the monks in training, Mudie would naturally not regard Pravda as an ordinary reading material, but an important tool for the Papal Palace to convey the direction of the wind.

It must be said that this issue of Pravda was four sheets of sixteen pages, but it still only cost half a dinar.

Mudiay didn't read a single word of the messy news and poetry, and jumped directly to the theology page, only to find that it was still a commentary on current affairs.

Then he realized that the two extra pages with densely packed small characters were actually additional issues of the theology page!

As Mudie gasped, other priests and monks in the restaurant exclaimed one after another and heard the sound of spoons falling to the ground.

Because these pages are not so much an introduction to theological content as they are a scene of debate among priests, theologians and friars of the Holy Fathers, and the content is quite intense.

In the previous article "On the Mason Parish", the topic of whether people are willing to be slaves was already quite sensitive.

In the second issue, an anonymous theologian immediately submitted an article to Pravda entitled "Refuting the Two-Wheeled Weirdos" and it was published.

The main content is the old patch of the church. Simply put, people can freely give up their freedom, because freedom is essentially a right of choice, and the existence of the right of choice means that people have the right to choose not to exercise freedom, or even choose to give up freedom.

Therefore, people's voluntary slavery is the full manifestation of freedom.

Originally, Mudie thought that this was just an extreme test by the Holy Way Sect, and that it should have stopped after the "Refutation of the Two-Wheeled Strange Man". But he did not expect that the "Pravda" would not only not ease up, but increase its intensity!

The author who responded to the article "Refuting the Two-Wheeled Weirdos" was a new author with the pen name "Mr. Horn".

Compared with the two-wheeled weirdo, Mr. Horn's words are more sharp and spicy. He doesn't even use polite words at the beginning of this rebuttal.

"I have only one thing to say to this anonymous theologian: You confuse the inner essence of freedom with the outer exercise of freedom! I don't know whether you are stupid or foolish.

The act of choosing to give up freedom (voluntary slavery) that you mentioned is itself the exercise of freedom, so the so-called giving up of freedom is logically impossible to achieve, just like you cannot lift yourself up!

...We can look at the Gospel about the conversion of St. George, which clearly states...

...This example better reflects the essence of freedom—he chose to obey voluntarily out of his faith in God, rather than being forced to obey in a state of lack of freedom.

...If a person really completely abandons freedom, then he cannot even make a choice of faith, because freedom is the basis of all choices. "

"well said."

"Right, that is it!"

It was as if the debate was taking place in a tavern, and many of the Doctrine of the Means and Juano monks and priests could not help but cheer.

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The other monks who still believed in the old sect said sarcastically: "You are so anxious, aren't there more to come? Look, this yellow-robed ascetic monk is the one with the real insight!"

Mudiay stopped drinking porridge, and even when the oatmeal cooled down, he continued to read attentively.

“This Mr. Horn obviously does not understand what the purpose of freedom is.

Is freedom for you to enjoy happiness in this world? The highest purpose of freedom is not to maintain autonomy, but to enable humans to choose good and God...

...As Saint Pierre said in the Gospel, I am the servant of Messiah, and this is the final destination of mankind!
Therefore, when people choose to give up their freedom, they actually enter a higher level of freedom, that is, true freedom.

...This freedom lies in completely breaking free from the constraints of self-will and obeying the absolute will of God. "

Seeing this, Mudiay was sweating profusely. As a Juanno supporter, he had to say that these moves were almost the final word, and he had to think carefully about how to refute them.

To put it simply, it is clearly written in the Gospel that the saint said that he was the servant of the Holy Lord. Isn't this voluntary slavery?
In the tavern, there was an instant of sighs of pity and pride, "getting back to the original source".

But their sighs soon stopped because those who read fast had already turned to the second additional issue.

A third author appeared in the second additional issue, and it seemed that he was also a contributor, because this was the first time I saw this pen name - The Master of Moulin Rouge.

“If giving up freedom is seen as a way to true freedom, then it still essentially needs to be accomplished through freedom, so it is impossible to achieve a true state of giving up.

God gives man freedom, not so that man can deny his existence by giving up his freedom, but so that man can actively understand God’s existence through free choice.

Saint-Pierre’s metaphor of the servant is based on moral consciousness arising from free will, rather than actual slavery.

Giving up freedom completely deprives us of this self-awareness, and further denies the meaning of being human. Isn’t that contradicting ourselves?”

The Moulin Rouge owner inserted long paragraphs of logical arguments and examples into the article, but basically the first four sentences can summarize it.

But soon the murmurings in the restaurant gradually stopped, because the group of assistant monks and citizens saw the end of the article.

“…if freedom is only meant to be given up, then it loses its meaning as a gift from God, because if it is only meant to be given up, then why would God give it?

Therefore, giving up freedom under any circumstances denies the image God has given to man - that is, being created in the image of God.

The Holy Father created humans and other intelligent creatures in his own image. Whether it is the Aiel or the dwarves, they are all part of humans. Humans are the primates of all creatures. This is what the Holy Father has determined.

If people can give up their freedom and be slaughtered at will like pigs and sheep, then what is the use of human wisdom? Why did the Holy Father give humans wisdom and freedom? "

“Therefore, a true believer should not only not voluntarily become a slave, but should also forcibly restore the freedom of slaves and those who voluntarily become slaves, because this is a blasphemy against the grace of the Holy Father!”

Mudiay's breath hitched for a few seconds, right at the last sentence of the newspaper.

"For the sake of the Holy Father, we should be willing to pay the price of war, even if the unfree people are not on our land!"

(End of this chapter)