Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 156: The poor were insulted and had to apologize!
The visible boundary separates the upper town and the lower town, while the invisible boundary separates the coolies and craftsmen.

As if by coincidence, Catholicism also divides the world after death into three parts: heaven, purgatory, and hell.

The inhabitants of Hell suffer from fire, loneliness, and mental torture. They are eternally separated from God and have no hope of heaven.

Bishop Amedai, such a high-ranking and powerful person, who lives in the upper city, is a resident of heaven, enjoying the divine light.

However, in order to keep heaven alive, he crossed two boundaries and went straight to the hell he wanted to avoid.

What meaning do the words he said have to these inhabitants of the abyss?
There is a lot of garbage here...

But he had to come, because in Karak, a city with nearly six thousand people, the population of the upper city was less than one thousand, the craftsmen's families were less than two thousand, and more than half of the population was concentrated in the corners of the city.

However, this is an area that is ignored and treated as if it does not exist.

There is a lot of garbage here...

Bishop Amedai continued to preach despite himself. He tried to inspire these people's faith in the Lord through his exquisite and moving theological skills.

He told the residents that sins would be forgiven, the body would be resurrected, and anyone could look forward to life in the afterlife.

Finally, someone in the garbage dump responded to Bishop Amedai's words, and the deathly silence was no longer there.

"But what does that have to do with us?"

"You let someone who has nothing defend someone who has everything?"

The world came alive, but these words were not what Bishop Amade wanted to hear. He was even afraid of it.

When he looked in the direction where the sound came from, he saw the man wearing a hood, standing up from the simple and dilapidated bench.

Amedee felt that the man's voice sounded familiar, and his build was stronger than the person next to him. He seemed out of place in this neighborhood, but was accepted by the people around him.

When the man said, "You let people who have nothing defend those who have everything," the crowd in the church became agitated. They spoke to each other, as if expressing their dissatisfaction with the request for help from the residents of heaven.

Bishop Amedai coughed twice, signaling everyone in the church to be quiet, but no one paid attention.

He had to continue loudly: "I will persuade the wealthy merchants to donate a large amount of coins, and every soldier who defends the city wall will get at least 3 silver dirhams every day!"

Three silver dirhams is already a very high price. Most of the residents here who can sell their labor need to spend a week to earn three silver dirhams.

In the past, any job would attract countless people as long as this price was called out.

"Those rich people are not without mercy. They also have charity and benevolence."

"Now, the Kingdom's army is invincible. Once reinforcements arrive tomorrow, the siege will be lifted, and all those who died in the battle will go to heaven!"

Amedee's pale words were meaningless, and all the promises he made seemed empty...

So the man who stood up from the audience turned around and made a gesture to all the poor people present, which was a gesture for the show to end.

Without words, just a movement, the people in the church stood up together, not caring at all about the gloomy look of Bishop Ame on the stage, and walked out of the church together, ending this meaningless sermon.

Compared to the bishop on the stage who had not set foot in this church for more than a year, Gailis had only been here for three weeks but had already revealed his charm and strength.

When all the believers had left, only Bishop Amedei, Father Antoine, and the inexplicable hooded man were left in the church, along with several guards brought by the bishop and the deacon who helped hold the ceremonial guard.

For a moment, the originally small church seemed empty because of the small number of people.

It was not until then that Bishop Ame recognized the identity of the person who was against him.

The angry bishop walked up to Garys and asked loudly: "Garys, why are you here!"

Garys naturally lifted his hood, revealing a face that was familiar to everyone present. "My Lord Bishop, why can't I be here?"

"Right now, you are lacking knights with rich military experience to help you defend the city, right?"

The bishop was still furious, but he had to admit that what Gailis said was true. Reynald had taken away all the knights of Karak Castle. He could only mobilize 150 city guards, plus the 200 volunteers he had found before, a total of 350 people.

Among these people, there was not a single knight, and many had never even picked up a weapon. The appearance of Gairis at least meant that he could provide some military guidance and help the city defend itself.

But this made Bishop Ame even angrier, because before, not only did Gairis not play a positive role, but he also sabotaged it on the spot!
Facing the bishop's questioning, Gailis sat back on the bench casually and relaxedly.

"My Lord Bishop, do you really think it is appropriate to let those who have nothing defend those who have everything? Will those rich people take up arms and go to the city walls together?"

"How long has it been since you came here? You usually don't care about it, but when someone needs to die, you remember that Karak City is not just the Upper City. There is another half that you have ignored!"

"Is it appropriate? I don't think it is appropriate."

Gérice's slightly lazy words made it difficult for Amedée to answer, so he turned around and questioned Father Antoine directly.

"Antoine, what's going on! I'm the bishop here! Why don't you tell me anything?"

Antoine, a young priest, only twenty-six years old, simply turned his head, glanced at the guards behind the bishop, and retorted.

"Yes, you are the bishop here, but when you come here, you bring guards with you and let them hold halberds to clear the way for you. It's so impressive."

Amedei's face turned even uglier again, and he began to realize why his previous sermon had no effect.

Gailis couldn't help but chuckle a few times, yawned in front of Bishop Ame, and then lay down on the bench like those homeless people on the street.

He propped up his head with his arms and tilted his head to the side to look at Amedeo.

His robe was tattered, and the bishop's vestments were so gorgeous that one could not bear to look at them directly.

"How can a clay pot and an iron pot touch each other? If the iron pot touches the clay pot, it will break into pieces."

"When a rich man insults someone, he gets furious; when a poor man is insulted, he apologizes."

"If you are useful to him, he will use you; if you have nothing, he will abandon you."

"If you are rich, he will stay with you and will not regret it even if he spends all your wealth."

"When he needs you, he deceives you and flatters you to make you trust him; then he speaks to you with great words, saying, 'What do you lack?'"

"When he has exploited you again and again, he will humiliate you with his food, and finally laugh at you; from then on, whenever he sees you, he will avoid you and shake his head at you."

There was a hint of teasing in Garys's lazy words, and as he recited the scriptures, Bishop Amedai's face turned completely dark.

The bishop lost miserably. The residents of heaven asked for help from the garbage in hell. It was a joke from the beginning.

"Jesus ben Sira is indeed a wise man. The Jews 1,300 years ago had already understood many things in human society. I never tire of reading the Wisdom of Ben Sira..."

The Wisdom of Ben-Sira, also known as the Book of Silas, translated as "Gen. I" in the Catholic Church, is part of the Old Testament of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. In most Protestant denominations, it is treated as an apocryphal book and has not been included in their Old and New Testaments.

The Wisdom of Ben-Sira or the Book of Ecclesiastes is a book of wisdom in the Bible. The teachings on interpersonal relationships in it are applicable to almost any situation.

These words quoted by Gellis dealt a heavy blow to Bishop Ame.

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