Chapter 34 The Madness of the State Religion 44

"The state church has great autonomy, and they may not be willing to obey the orders of adults." Feikris said with some worry.

Guilliman smiled and said, "I will make them listen to me. I am the Emperor's son and the Emperor's best spokesperson. Even a saint of the State Religion would not dare to say that he is more qualified than me to be the spokesperson of the State Religion."

"What if they feel that their interests have been harmed and have a tough attitude??"

"Then tie those heretics to the burning rack." Guilliman paused and looked at Ficris, "Speaking of the burning rack, you can ask the technical sergeants on the ship to help me weld a few. Maybe

We need a few stakes to tell the bishops what will happen to them if they disobey me."

"Sir." Feikris hesitated for a moment, "Is this really good? It seems to be inconsistent with your past style. Don't you advocate that everything must follow the rules and pursue rational thinking?"

"In the face of you, rational thinking will be promoted, and everything must be done according to the established framework, because you are rational and know what is right and what is wrong. Rules can help you restrain your inner arrogance and laziness, so that you can

You understand the purpose of everything you do.

But those fanatical believers do not have this awareness, they will only fanatically follow their beliefs and are willing to become tools of religion."

Guilliman walked around and sorted out his words before continuing, "What do you think is my success rate in persuading them to give up their faith? Be honest, Phicles, don't go out of your way to compliment me, just follow your past understanding of the state religion."

Let me tell you."

"Let them give up their faith." Phikris fell into deep thought. He had quite a lot of contact with the state religion, self-abuse ascetics, various tortures and killings of sinners, and all kinds of crazy behaviors.

After various thoughts on the behavior of the state religion, Phikris got the answer.

"The success rate is 0. It is impossible for them to give up their faith. Faith is everything to them. It is much easier to persuade those believers to give up their lives than to persuade them to give up their faith."

"That's the problem. I can't persuade them to give up their faith, nor can I ban the state religion with a ban, so the means I can take are minimal. Controlling them is the safest way. As long as I control them

, I can carry out a new round of reforms to the state religion, limit the power of the bishops, and guide those believers to the right path just like I reformed the administrative system and the imperial army."

"If I want them to willingly accept my reforms, then I must have a legitimate identity that can make believers feel that I will be one of them. Only in this way will they think that my reforms are correct.

Yes, it was the Emperor who directed me to do this. Those who oppose are the enemies of the Empire, their enemies, and agents of Chaos."

"Sir, this is a bit too complicated."

"Fecris, you have to continue to learn. In addition to fighting, you also have to learn other things. Only in this way can you help me better. What we are facing is not only the battlefield on the surface, but also the invisible ones.

On the battlefield, we must win all the victories in order to save mankind, otherwise salvation will be just an empty talk."

"Chaos will interfere with us, traitors will deceive us, and those who are dissatisfied will also become our obstacles. Some of them are in the open and some are in the dark. Use strength to deal with the enemies in the open, and then use our minds

To deal with those hidden enemies, only in this way can the empire be saved."

"I understand, sir."

"Understood, just go out, I need to be quiet. Report to me other things in ten minutes."

Phicles nodded and walked out.

Guilliman remained alone in his room, thinking about Espandor and how to control the Ecclesiarchy.

The fanatical belief in the state religion is terrible, but it is not without its benefits.

Guilliman can use this faith to help him promote the new system and fight against the demons.

Of course, this is just a stopgap measure.

The state religion cannot exist forever, it can only exist temporarily.

When all areas of the empire burst with vitality under his new technologies and new ideas, the belief in the Emperor will naturally die.

In the Middle Ages, during the dark ages of church rule, the power of the pope was once extremely expanded.

In the end, it gradually declined due to the Renaissance.

After the Renaissance, people viewed God more for scrutiny, criticism and spiritual comfort, rather than fanaticism and ignorance.

In the Warhammer universe, it is unrealistic to deny the existence of gods.

The status of humans and gods should be equal, and they should not kneel down and flatter each other.

Guilliman did not have the skill and courage of the Emperor to directly kill all religions and tear down those temples and temples.

The only thing he could do was to figure it out slowly, by boiling the frog in warm water.

Under Guilliman's order, the fleet recalibrated its course and turned towards the missionary world - Espandor.

A week later, the fleet broke away from the subspace and appeared outside the Espandor system.

There are evangelist communication satellites floating everywhere in this galaxy, sending various encoded imperial hymns and prayers to the outside world at all times.

These satellites are not only sent in the real universe, but also sent to subspace using auspicious devices.

The fleet received a large amount of communication information before entering the real world.

After entering the real world, he was even more overwhelmed by the ocean-like electromagnetic communication signals.

The meditator who processed the communication information showed pain on his head and face, and the machine slaves who reported and performed calculations were twitching due to the huge amount of calculations.

The secondary system was clogged due to the huge traffic volume, emitting noisy and harsh warning sounds.

Most of these communications were useless, consisting of fanatical prayers and hymns from believers.

This forced the fleet to choose to block most of the information to avoid overloading the cogitators and servitors.

There are dozens of pilgrim arks in the Espandor system that are tens of kilometers long. They tow the emperor's sculptures that are hundreds of kilometers high and cruise around the system.

The ark was filled with prostrate fanatics and ascetics, who were beating themselves up day and night to show off the Emperor's glimmer of light.

The Espandor system contains two Earth-like planets.

The planet Espandor 1 is where the main population of this galaxy resides.

On the surface of the planet, there are more than a dozen emperor sculptures that tower into the clouds and break through the sky.

The atmosphere of the planet is filled with the smell of burning incense, and devout believers can be seen everywhere in giant cities, carrying incense burners and sacred flags.

Among these believers there are many fanatics.

The way these fanatics express their piety is very extreme.

There are some wealthy fanatics who not only have scriptures engraved on their bodies, they are so crazy that they use the technology of the Mechanicum to have scriptures engraved on their own bones.

There were also some who whipped themselves with thorns until their bodies were covered with bruises and blood, and bones appeared in some places. They were unwilling to stop and their bodies were dripping with blood as they walked.

There are also some iron cages hanging in front of the Imperial Church.

Those iron cages contain what believers consider to be heretics.

The heretics were tied to iron pillars, and the bruises and bloodstains on their bodies indicated that they had suffered long-term torture.

In the middle of the iron cage, there is a flamethrower, which is turned on with the screams of the prisoners.

The high temperature melted part of the iron pillars, and the molten iron flowed onto the heretics, causing them to scream in pain.

There were also some heretics who had their throats slit by fanatics and fell to the ground twitching. Their blood soaked the ground. Some believers smeared the blood on their faces and knelt on the ground to declare that they had cleansed the Emperor's enemies.

It's a crazy world.

This is a world that has lost its mind.

The scenes captured by the radar array and auspicious device made Guilliman's heart palpitate.

The madness of the state religion was more terrifying than he imagined.

"I hope everything goes well," Guilliman thought to himself.

As soon as Guilliman's fleet appeared, it was discovered by the believers in the Espandor system.

News of the Primarch's arrival spread throughout the galaxy within a few hours, and countless believers cheered it as a reward from the Emperor for their piety.

A grand welcome ceremony was held an hour after Guilliman's fleet entered the Espandor system.

A large number of pilgrim ships joined Guilliman's fleet to show his piety.

Several bishops even expressed their request to board the Macragge's Glory to meet the Primarch.

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