Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 166 Father! I sold the blood of innocent people!

"Assholes! Damn it! You're not even afraid of us. These are no longer ordinary rebels. We must strike hard!"

Still in the reception room of Etienne's mansion, Etienne groaned and asked someone to apply medicine to him.

This medicinal wine comes from an Arab doctor. It’s really effective.

The other congressmen also had solemn expressions on their faces.

The same congressman with a long beard said, "Etienne, I think the matter you mentioned earlier is feasible."

"I talked to Stephanie about this in the afternoon."

"When that woman mentioned Garys, she got so angry that she flew into a rage. You could say she was on our side."

"Nowadays, the only one who truly supports Garys is the stubborn old Amedee."

The MPs reached a consensus.

This was another middle-aged congressman who took over the conversation.

"I have contacted a broker here. The guy wants a total of 200 gold dinars, and 100 must be paid in advance."

As soon as he finished speaking, Etienne shouted viciously.

"I'll give you 50! In the name of God, I swear, I will fight him to the death!"

Then Etienne began to curse Guéris in all kinds of ways in the name of God.

……

For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Cut down trees and build a fortification against Jerusalem; this is the city that is to be punished, a city full of oppression."

"As a well gushes forth water, so this city gushes forth evil; violence and destruction are heard continually in it, sickness and injury are continually before me."

—Jeremiah 6:6-7
Another sermon ended. Nowadays, Garys preaches every day at different locations, trying to take care of everyone in the city.

For people in the city, being besieged is not the norm after all.

It's like the sword of Damocles, hanging over your head, and you don't know when it will fall.

And during these days, Adil's army launched tentative attacks again and again, exerting invisible oppression on the residents of the city.

The scale of those attacks was not large, but every time the alarm bells sounded, the citizens of the city felt as if they had been abandoned by God.

At such times, only Garys stood up again and again to preach to the residents of the city.

Tell these residents: God has not abandoned them, as long as they can sincerely repent and make amends, the city will be liberated soon.

To be honest, Garys was not in a hurry to rescue the situation.

The more desperate the situation is, the more likely a drowning person will grab at a straw.

However, Garys did not just hand over a straw, but jumped into the river himself and pulled those who fell into the water to the shore.

Therefore, the contents of his sermons became more and more popular.

[The Lord once said: "There are poor people in the world because there are rich people; there are rich people because there are poor people."]

[The wealth of the rich is taken from the suffering of the poor, just as the roots of a towering tree are deeply rooted in the withering of the poor.]

【The freedom of a few people comes from the slavery of the majority. This freedom is a blasphemy against justice before God.】

[A poor country is a true reflection of a rich country. The hunger, cold and distorted faces of the poor are the evidence of the crimes of the rich.]

【Civilization has oppressed countless people into inhuman conditions, destroyed their lives like a hurricane, and crucified people like Jesus.】

[The faces of the people are like the image of the world rejecting the Lord, and their groans are a testimony to the sins of the world.]

[The rich, just as they rejected Christ in the past, are abandoning today’s poor to the brink of death.]

[The Lord said: "Whoever abandons the poor abandons me; whoever despises suffering despises me."]

【The glory and eternal life of the Kingdom of Heaven are given to the poor, the mourning, the hungry and the thirsty... not to the proud. If the freedom of the rich is built on the suffering of others, the Lord will tear down their glory and make their honor vanish like dust! 】

——Excerpt from the second volume of "The Words of Gailis". It was because there were many sinners and wicked people in this city that it was besieged by a large army.

Although Gellis did not explicitly state this, many citizens subconsciously agreed with it.

During these days of siege, they needed an outlet to vent their anger.

For Gérisse, many of these ideas actually originated from the liberation theology of the 20th century.

As a Catholic theology, liberation theology boldly uses Marxist class thought to analyze the core of social contradictions and comes up with some of its own answers.

Among them, Father Ignacio Eyakuria believes that:

Keeping the majority of people in poverty is a form of violence.

Unlike individual violence, this kind of violence is "structural violence" or "systemic injustice". It is a "structural crime".

This violence is like a hurricane, ravaging the faces of the poor. These poor people who are unbearable to look at are the "crucified people."

Father Ignacio Eyakuria said: “The rich have abandoned them just as they abandoned Christ.”

However, in Gellis's eyes, it is these people who are abandoned by the rich, despised by the nobles, and forgotten in history who possess unspeakable power and noble character.

The sermon ended and the people dispersed.

In the church, Garys was still packing up the ritual objects, but there was a hunched man who was unwilling to leave.

He watched Gellis rise from the bench, then clumsily walk through the middle corridor, step by step.

On his thin face, the deep wrinkles were as ugly as if they were carved by a knife.

He was only forty years old, but he looked as old as a skeleton in a grave.

Poverty and suffering crushed him, and the years tortured his body and mind into a pile of garbage.

Only a pair of cloudy eyes still had some light left, which was given by the thing in his arms.

30 silver coins - this was the wealth he had never possessed at the same time.

They collided coldly in his arms, making a heart-pounding sound.

【Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests and asked, “How much will you give if I hand Jesus over to you?” So they gave him thirty pieces of silver.】

——Matthew 26:14-15
However, every time he took a step toward Garys, the silver coins became hotter, as if burning his skin.

Gailis was still packing up the ritual objects, but he just stood there calmly, letting the clear footsteps echo in his ears.

The man finally came behind Garys, and his trembling hand slowly reached into his arms and grasped the cold dagger.

The chill penetrated into his bones, and tortured him alternately with the hot coins.

The pain twisted in his chest like an invisible blade.

He could no longer hold the dagger, and his fingertips loosened weakly.

The cold weapon made a crisp sound on the floor.

Tears blurred his vision and he fell to the ground, crying bitterly.

"Father! I sold innocent blood!"

The man covered his face and sobbed like a child, tears streaming down his wrinkled cheeks, and the coins were thrown to the ground beside him.

The clinking of coins seemed to have caught Gailis's attention. He turned around and tried to help the man up.

"Where did I sell it? I'm fine, right?"

"I am guilty! I have betrayed innocent blood!" The Jewish elders said, "This is your business, what does it have to do with us?" Judas threw the silver into the sanctuary, left, and hanged himself.

——Matthew 27:4-5
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