Chapter 2458: Crushing Game
Religious competition is always the most brutal. From ancient times to the present, countless wars have broken out for faith, and the blood has flowed like a river. So when the Axis Church and the Tokusatsu Church met in the hot spring city, it was destined not to end peacefully.
In order to keep the believers, Aqua can only help the store to improve the quality of the hot springs, but it is really tiring. If you are not careful, you may turn the store's hot springs into white water. She is not used to this cruel struggle. Moreover, the Tokusatsu Church came with bad intentions and came very fiercely. They came prepared and ready to go.
Faced with the various consumption concepts and health concepts promoted by the stores under the influence of the Tokusatsu Church, Aqua, who hastily responded to the battle, is completely no match. Seeing that she can't keep her believers, the goddess is very panicked. She really wants to know if the three guys on the other side have any shortcomings so that she can attack.
"I advise you not to do this, because they are obviously from heaven and must have investigated your past. If you attack them personally, I'm afraid they will expose all your dirty laundry, and your believers will be greatly disappointed." Duran reminded Aqua not to seek death.
Aqua felt that she should not have any real evidence: "Although I am willing to deceive, I have never had any real evidence, no written evidence."
"Then Eris's fake breasts are evidence? It's not you who spread rumors." Duran felt strange. Would Aqua use 100% correct evidence when attacking others?
"That's true. Eris is padded. Otherwise, why is she so big among so many goddesses?" Aqua said confidently: "And when I say this, others will believe it because everyone thinks she is not right."
Duran said that this goddess really won't cry until she sees the coffin. She is not only willful but also very arrogant. However, she is sure to lose. After all, the Tokusatsu Cult is really benefiting the people, which is equivalent to a miracle.
"Where did this Tokusatsu cult come from? I'm really pissed off. If this continues, my believers will be pulled away. Kazuma, you should find more customers. I want to protect my believers." Aqua asked Kazuma to think of a solution.
Sato Kazuma said that he also wanted to see if the hot spring across the street was so effective. He didn't want to help the goddess because it had nothing to do with him.
Aqua tried very hard to help the believers improve their business, but unfortunately the effect was limited. So the last few believers began to waver, because these believers found that the Tokusatsu cult across the street was really strong, and also stipulated various requirements for employment, what to do and what not to do, and made the store owners convinced.
Religion must have various regulations, so that ordinary people's lives also have a sense of ritual, so as to strengthen the influence of religion and bring people closer to God.
As a religion that absorbs a lot of religious advantages, the only disadvantage of the Tokusatsu cult is that it has established three idols, which makes it easy for believers to split. However, division is also a characteristic of religion. After all, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions. The same problem requires different explanations in different places, so religious division is also a way of expansion, and it can even be said to be an inevitable way.
After all, the expansion of religion first requires a split from the original doctrine, because the original doctrine of religion generally teaches believers to be anti-human or to protect only a small group of people. If you want to expand, you must not be anti-human and must follow human nature. Then you can't just protect a small group of people, you must expand the scope of protection.
In this way, the original doctrine is modified. If it continues to expand, there will be different interpretations of the classics, and the doctrine will be further divided. This is the inevitable result of different ways of thinking in different regions. No one can control it, not even God. In order to explain this division, you have to keep patching.
So setting up three idols is to prepare for future divisions. If religion is not divided, it means there is no development. Only with division can there be development.
For such a far-sighted religion, it is natural for Aqua to lose to them. On the contrary, it is a very normal thing.
With fewer and fewer beliefs, Aqua is getting weaker and weaker, a capital word of misery.
Sato Kazuma went to enjoy the hot springs across the street and found that they were indeed very good. A bath in them would make you feel refreshed and beautiful. Moreover, the service was very comprehensive, and there was even a massage. After a trip, all the fatigue disappeared, as if she had been reborn: "Aqua, look at me, my skin is now like a baby's, and the bones of my whole body seem to have been repaired. You should also try it."
Boom!
Aqua was very angry, and she secretly thought that she must destroy their hot springs. At this time, she was more terrifying than the Demon King's army, with a gloomy face. In order to keep her faith, she had to throw herself into darkness and turn black.
"What dangerous things are you thinking about? Don't do anything that violates your status as a goddess." Kazuma knew the goddess's mind very well. As soon as he saw Aqua's expression, he knew that she must have bad intentions.
Although everyone felt that Aqua was a little pitiful, they did not support Aqua's blackening. After all, she had snatched Aqua's believers with her own ability. Aqua did lose, and it would be too embarrassing if she didn't admit defeat.
Everyone looked at Duran, hoping that he could talk about reason and let Aqua accept the reality. As for why they didn't persuade her, it was because they knew they couldn't. Aqua was about to go crazy, and only Duran could persuade her.
"Ahem." As the leader of the team, Duran couldn't just watch: "Aqua, it's actually very simple to restore your faith. Why don't you join the Tokusatsu Church?"
If you can't beat them, join them. This is true for humans and gods. Duran gave Aqua an idea: "You can wear a battle suit or armor, or even turn into light."
"Join them?" Aqua thought it was interesting. If she joined them, she could share their beliefs, which would be more convenient than preaching on her own. According to the ability of the Tokusatsu Church to spread, it will definitely be able to collect more believers. If I join them, I will definitely get more than before: "But how can I make them willing to accept me? My doctrine is completely different from theirs."
"Don't you find that the three idols of the Tokusatsu Church are gods who selflessly devote themselves to their believers? Their three doctrines are to work hard for their believers until their death. If you turn yourself into a god who serves believers, won't you be the same as them? Doesn't their creed say that everyone can become light?"
"But only gods can share beliefs. I must be their god, not a believer." Aqua's problem is that her own standards are too high. If the main god of a clan condescends to share beliefs with other religions, Aqua will not do it if his status is low, and if his status is high, the Tokusatsu Church will not do it.
This is indeed a problem for religion. In the ancient primitive tribal era, tribes fought with tribes. In order to make the losing tribe evolve peacefully, the winning tribe generally added the losing tribe's god of faith to its own religious system, so there was polytheism.
However, polytheism is generally weak and scattered, and has no ability to fight back against the invasion of monotheism.
Although Tokusatsu has three idols, it is actually a monotheistic religion because of the Trinity. Duran smiled: "It's actually very simple, because these three idols have human bodies, you can become their human bodies, and you are the same as God."
To absorb new content, you have to patch it, and reasonable patches mean religious progress.