Different from Lawrence's previous life, this world now attaches great importance to faith because of the real existence of gods. At least for most beings with wisdom, their own faith is absolutely indispensable.
But unlike most of Lawrence's previous lives, which were exclusive in their beliefs, the intelligent creatures in this world can be said to be very free in their choice of beliefs.
For example, for the objects of belief, gods are naturally the mainstream, but non-god beliefs can also be accepted and recognized as appropriate beliefs.
For example, druids who believe in nature itself, and existences such as godless priests and godless knights who take a certain idea as the object of their faith can also walk on the earth openly.
In addition, believers of gods, except for clergy, basically allow their followers to have multiple beliefs. As long as your other beliefs do not conflict with the beliefs of this god.
At the same time, for these gods, believers are free to join or leave the church. It is only required that such changes must be made out of their own wishes and have reasonable reasons.
However, the entire society must severely crack down on a kind of belief, that is, false gods. Unlike other beliefs, this kind of belief is called false because these beings use deceptive means to obtain belief.
Part of this comes from the powerful devils or devils in the lower planes. Because they are so powerful, they will naturally attract a large number of beings who worship them. At the same time, such powerful beings can also bestow various spells and supernatural abilities on mortals, just like gods bestow
Those clergy have the same ability to cast magical spells, but the price is higher than that of gods.
Others are beings who are not gods but long to become gods. For various reasons, they do not want to take the arduous path of formal god-goers, so they pretend to be gods to trick ordinary people into worshiping them.
Own.
In this case, they cannot grant power to the mortals who worship them like real gods or beings from the lower planes. However, they will use all their extraordinary powers to make various disguises and pretend that they are
god.
Obviously, no matter what kind of false god it is, it will have a very negative impact on the entire world. Therefore, it will naturally be listed as the target of severe crackdown by the mainstream.
For the former type of false god, all we can do is to destroy all the organizations related to it as much as possible. Because the opponent's true body is hidden in the lower plane, it is generally difficult to catch them out.
But for the latter kind of false gods, they will be chased and beaten once they are caught. Many of the raw materials for the artifacts with divine beliefs in various churches come from these, which are not of a very high level, but they are still jumping up and down.
Awesome guy.
It is also because of the existence of false gods that those who hope to truly become gods naturally need to undergo certain tests.
For example, when Lawrence arrived at New Saul Island in a fast airship, he saw several large ships decorated with lavish decorations and flying church flags already moored beside the pier in the port.
These ships basically come from the churches that had good relations with Lawrence before, and the reason why they are here now is to congratulate the little doll for lighting the divine fire and becoming a secondary god.
But from a deeper level, this is also a collective assessment of Nora by the churches belonging to the civilized camp to confirm that she is indeed not a false god.
This custom actually began to appear shortly after the civilization camp was established, and the reason for this is a kind of screening and recognition within the alliance.
For those gods who established the civilized camp back then, they certainly hoped to recruit enough members, because only by constantly recruiting new blood can the activity of the entire organization be maintained.
But because they will provide certain support and protection to those who join, these gods must check those new joiners to avoid letting some dangerous elements mix in.
Of course, because Lawrence had communicated with those churches before, those churches were able to watch the whole process of the little doll's ascension ceremony.
During this period of time, they naturally checked and confirmed that the little doll was not a false god, but from a rule perspective, the next step had to be done again.
"Your Excellency, you are finally back!" Just as Lawrence got off the boat, a young man wearing the most common local work clothes came directly to greet him.
But what is different from those workers is that this young man has a Yin-Yang fish logo hanging on his chest. According to what the little doll just said, this is one of the five priests she has found in the recent period.
As a newly lit divine fire, Nora was very lucky to be able to find five priests in such a short period of time.
It is normal for Nora to send one of the only five priests to pick up Lawrence. After all, Nora is so busy now that she can only find someone to pick up Lawrence for her.
For this pastor, Lawrence is the closest being to the god he most believes in, and he is also the highest leader of the entire church. Therefore, it is very normal to come to greet him.
"...Her Majesty Nora is the guardian of New Sol Island and the surrounding archipelagos and islands, and the controller of various microorganisms. Although her current followers are jackals in a small world beyond the stars.
Lord, but it is not the exclusive god of a certain race. All intelligent creatures can believe in it, and it will also protect all creatures who believe in it..."
Just as they were riding a carriage to the city center, many people gathered in the city center square. And a Nora pastor was standing on a temporary platform made of several boxes and loudly shouted to the people below.
Promote the teachings of the little dolls.
"How effective is this propaganda?" Seeing the interested expressions of the audience, Lawrence asked the priest sitting next to him.
"It's very good. In less than a week, more than 90% of the people on the island have chosen to believe in our god." When talking about this matter, the priest raised his eyebrows and showed an excited look.
"And in addition to those people on our territory, there are also a lot of people on the surrounding islands who choose to believe in our Lord Nala, and even half of them can be found on some islands. This is actually far more than we expected before.
"
Lawrence didn't think there was anything strange about this matter, because there was almost a blank area of belief in the surrounding area, and the belief in Nora could just fill this belief gap.
As for spreading faith, it is naturally difficult to spread faith in places that already have faith, because this requires competition or even war with other existing faiths.
However, it will be much easier to spread your own beliefs in areas like the surrounding areas where there is almost no belief. As long as these beliefs are useful to the locals, they will naturally gain the beliefs of the locals.
However, according to this priest, the believers of the little doll now mainly come from the priesthood of the patron saint of her region. However, as the main priest, there are not many people who believe in Tianyan and microorganisms.
As far as he knew, the believers attracted by these main clergy are now mainly concentrated in hospitals, pharmaceutical research institutes, and a series of people whose work is related to fermentation and antisepsis. This is because this belief is closely related to their profession.
For example, there are many Noras in those fish and meat processing plants who believe in her because of her priesthood of microorganisms. Because belief in her is beneficial to the preservation of various finished products.
In addition, the first miracle performed by the little doll after igniting the divine fire was to ferment a lot of small fish and shrimps that are usually used as scraps as raw materials, and then make a kind of fish soy sauce or fish sauce.