From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 433 Freedom of Religion
[Spirituality] represents variables. For extraordinary people who possess [spirituality], there is no absolutely impossible thing, even things that are theoretically impossible to achieve.

[Spirituality] means infinite possibilities. Of course, these infinite possibilities do not mean that they are all good things, because, of course, not all infinite possibilities are good. Bad development is also a variable.

For high-level extraordinary people with inheritance, [spirituality] is usually the last thing to be shaped. Even many traditional legends reserve [spirituality] for shaping after they are promoted to legends.

The reason is very simple. Instability, which represents variables and infinite possibilities, is the most dangerous element among the five legendary elements. Legends are okay, but if ordinary high-level spellcasters cannot grasp it, they will easily get lost in the variables and infinite possibilities.

Many disasters in this world in the future will be caused by high-level extraordinary people being lost.

However, although it is dangerous, for Roland, [Spirituality] is the best choice he can make at the moment.

Clarify oneself, anchor the concept, represent the [concept] of self, Roland, who has some doubts that his reincarnation is not simple, is now completely unable to shape it.

The combination of body, magic, soul, and spirit, representing a perfect [personality], is not something Roland can create now. After experiencing one physical sublimation and two spiritual sublimations, Roland did not build a balance between the three. His soul is stronger than his body.

Moreover, since he had experienced a physical sublimation, his soul did not have an overwhelming advantage over the body. He could not, like other legends, choose to abandon either the body or the soul and shape his [personality] with the body and magic or with magic and soul.

As for [Authority], as a tool for understanding and changing the world, when Roland was promoted to the middle and high levels, he chose the path he was most familiar with, that is, the all-inclusive [world], and chose to become a true all-round wizard.

If one chooses only the most basic concept of [life] power like Kan Ozu, then it is not impossible to shape [authority].

Because Roland did not choose only one or several individual concepts of power like other legends, but chose a path that is the most difficult and the least cost-effective even among players.

Only professional players who are completely willing to pay any price, pursue power, have sufficient time and energy, and have a full understanding of the game will choose this path and it will be possible to achieve it.

Moreover, even among professional players, only Roland and a few top professional players have truly walked this path. Most professional players who choose this path are stuck in the shaping of [Authority] and can only give up in the end.

Of course, choosing [World] is just more adaptable than choosing other concept power legends. In addition to having some advantages in the early stage, it can also be caught up in the later stage.
In professional duels, Roland was also beaten one-on-one by top professional players with single-concept power.

In addition, there is no difference between a traditional legend that is promoted through four legendary elements and a legend that is fully promoted through five legendary elements.

Spirituality, which represents variables and infinite possibilities, even if it is incomplete, can also give traditional legends the possibility to complete themselves. Although it will be dozens of times more difficult than before the spark was ignited, it is not impossible.

In short, even if Roland was the first to walk this path and was known as the world's number one wizard, he would not be able to complete the shaping of [Authority] before his body was sublimated a second time.

Roland is currently unable to shape any of the [concept], [person], or [authority]. At best he can only rub out a little bit of them. Therefore, he can only choose the only one that can be shaped, which has the lowest threshold, is the most dangerous, and is also the one that can bring the most change and power: [spirituality].

How long will it take to shape [spirituality]?

Roland lay down on a chair in the flower shop, closed his eyes, and sighed helplessly at the 25% of his spirituality that was now complete.

20% of them were semi-finished products that Roland had slowly shaped over the past few years, based on his understanding of "spirituality", and the other 5% were the harvest from Roland's flower shop in this small town during this period.

By guiding and changing the variables in other people, one can achieve spiritual perfection.

Or maybe the speed of promotion was too slow. If Roland had been a high-level spellcaster when he first established the War Committee, the change in the fate of millions of people in Donnar and the fall of Kan'ozu would have been enough variables for Roland to shape his [spirituality].

Unfortunately, even after killing Kan'aozu, Roland was only a sixth-ring spellcaster, and there was no way to shape his [spirituality] in advance, so now Roland could only hone it slowly.

Roland touched his [spirituality] and spoke casually.

"Gray Crow, close the store. No one is coming today."

This flower shop is not visible and accessible to everyone. Only those who stand at the crossroads that change their destiny can see this shop. Therefore, from its opening to now, the flower shop has received an average of no more than 0.7 customers per day.

After hearing Roland's words, the Gray Crow slowly flapped its wings and hung a wooden sign outside the door, indicating that the store was closed and not accepting any customers.

Hela also gently put down the kettle. She took out a table and chairs from her space bracelet and placed them on the open space. Then, she took out the liquid of wisdom and a cup and filled the cup with the liquid of wisdom.

At the same time, the undead also walked into the depths of the store, came out with a bunch of information and government affairs, and placed them all on the table.

Roland walked over tiredly and picked up the top government document.

This is a new reform bill that has been reviewed and approved by the Executive Committee.

【Freedom of Religion】

This is a new religious policy that was formulated by the committee through internal investigation, combining the committee's actual situation and integrating the committee's original religious management regulations.

Although Roland had previously formulated relevant management regulations in the first edition of the Golden Law, because the management of religious beliefs was not particularly emphasized at the time, he only established the basic principles of the management of religious beliefs and freedom of belief by the Administration Department, without giving clear definitions and concepts.

After the Pantheon Church had established contact with the Sinar Pantheon and massacred the Dawn Church, which they considered to be a complete heresy, the issue of religious belief has gradually become one of the hot topics discussed on the Internet.

When faced with this topic, all the current churches of the War Council got involved, and they all aspired to become the state religion of the War Council.

Whether it was the Pantheon Church that had been purged and was under strict restrictions and control by the management department, or the Dawn Church that was regarded as a heretic by the Pantheon and experienced the Bloody Incident, or other churches that split from the Pantheon, as well as the Donnar Traditional Faith Church, they were all paying close attention.

The only one that did not get involved was the Four Saints and One Church. Unlike the other churches that suddenly became active, the Four Saints and One Church, which had been particularly active since the opening of the external network, became quiet at this time. In order to seize the status of the state religion, these churches added fuel to the fire and exposed each other's past, and the debate surrounding religious beliefs became increasingly intensified.

These churches even expressed their wishes through the management department. The Pantheon Church said: If Roland is willing, they are willing to recognize Roland as Littorio's successor and the new God of the Pantheon; other Pantheon heretical churches said: As long as Roland is willing, they don't know Littorio at all. There has only been one God of the Pantheon from ancient times to the present, and that is Roland.

The churches of the local knights of Donnar also expressed their willingness to remove the position of the Supreme God and let Roland take it.

Roland was naturally completely indifferent to this. It was well said, but it didn't feel as good as the Four Saints and One Church.

If Roland really cared about these things, then why didn't he choose the Four Saints and One Church? At best, they would just integrate Roland into their original system and make him a member of their pantheon, while the Four Saints and One Church only believed in Roland's monotheistic faith.

In the teachings of the Four Saints and One Church, the four names of God are merely descriptions of different aspects of Roland.

Therefore, the wishes they put forward to the management department were useless. Neither Roland nor the executive committee cared much.

However, in order to put an end to the increasingly heated debate related to religious beliefs, the Executive Committee initially drafted a reform bill.

With twelve votes in the Executive Committee, all except Roland, the Executive Committee passed a reform bill to establish the Four Saints One Church as the state religion and, based on the principles previously established by Roland, allow other faith churches to operate normally.

In response, Roland used his veto power to fight back.

State religion? What state religion? Why are we still mixing politics and religion in this era?

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Roland understood that religious beliefs could not be eliminated, but he would never allow the establishment of a state religion or the interference of religious forces in politics. Church and state must be separated.

Therefore, under Roland's arbitrary order, the National Religion Act was not actually implemented, but was replaced by the current reform plan.

【Freedom of Religion】The reform bill includes three major principles: freedom of religion, equality of religion, and separation of church and state.

The law will stipulate that citizens enjoy freedom of religious belief, that is, the freedom of citizens to voluntarily choose and believe in religion based on their inner beliefs.

Its meaning includes: citizens have the freedom to believe in religion or not, the freedom to believe in this church or that church, all legal churches, the freedom to believe in religion in the past but not now or not believe in religion in the past but believe in religion now.

Freedom of belief requires that no committee, organization, social group or individual should force citizens to believe in religion or not. At the same time, the legal principle of equality of belief also requires that citizens who believe in religion and those who do not believe in religion should not be discriminated against.

The separation of church and state clearly defines the scope of the church's power. Any church activity must be based on the constraints of the Golden Rule. Any doctrine must be reviewed and approved by the management department. All church rules are only for moral encouragement, and the church is prohibited from punishing believers for violating church rules.

Apart from excommunication, the church has no right to take any coercive measures against believers.

In addition, no one is allowed to use religion to disrupt public order, harm the health of citizens or hinder the operation of the committee; the church shall not be controlled by foreign forces in its religious activities and religious affairs, and shall not have organizational affiliation with foreign religious organizations and groups.

Roland flipped through the reform bill and after confirming that it was similar to the draft he had read before, he passed it.
Then, Roland put the reform bill aside and looked at the attachment below it.

This is a summary report on the detailed situation of the church within the committee that Roland asked the Management Department and the Administration Department to compile.

What caught Roland's eyes was the church size ranking compiled by the management department based on internal data, combined with the number of churches, priests, and registered believers.

Among all the churches, the largest one at present is a church that Roland had never expected: the Four Saints One Church.

As the youngest church on the committee, a church that had been built up slowly from scratch, Roland could not imagine how other churches could lose to them.

The Four Saints Church has become the largest church in the committee? Is this true?
Roland was a little surprised. He flipped through the report and looked at the information and data recorded by the Administration Department and the Management Department.

Unlike other churches, the Four Saints Church was a secret sect that was later incorporated into the Imperial Court.

Since it was a secret sect before, many members were under the names of other churches. After being summoned, these members naturally transferred to the Four Saints and One Church. Moreover, when they left, they also took away other priests they had developed in other churches.

As a result, the Four Saints and One Church quickly had a group of elite and mature priests and a personnel base for spreading the faith.

Although the funds allocated to them by the management department were not much, and as a new church, they did not have much assets.

However, as the church with the most sensitive sense of smell, the Four Holy One Church seized the opportunity of the committee's reconstruction and economic development and took the initiative to participate in a large number of urban construction projects.

Thanks to the committee’s encouragement and support policies, the Four Saints and One Church was able to get one church after another for free by participating in construction projects.

Moreover, the Four Saints and One Church is also very bold. Once a project is completed, they will leave one or two priests behind to be responsible for missionary work, while the others will continue to sign up for other construction projects.

In addition, as a pioneer, the Four Saints One Church often takes the initiative to sign up for various difficult construction projects and devotes itself to remote and difficult areas. Many border and remote cities are basically converted to the Four Saints One because only the Four Saints One Church is stationed there and there is no competition from other churches.

Although there are such people in other churches, they are just private actions of some priests in other churches, which cannot compare to the joint efforts of the Four Saints and the entire church.

In addition, the Church of the Four Holy Ones does not exclude outsiders, whether they are elves, halflings, dwarves or goblins, the Church of the Four Holy Ones will send priests to their settlements to build churches and preach.

Even if there is no supporting policy, as long as the local city hall is willing to allocate a piece of vacant land to them, the four saints and one priest can directly build a small wooden house on the vacant land and then preach.

(End of this chapter)