"Even by your logic, a big city is a man-eating Beast. If you wanted to stop people from being eaten by the Beast, then you should have pulled out its teeth—you should have gone into those office buildings and killed the company bosses who created the homeless, instead of deceiving yourself and using those lunatic doctrines to trap your already impoverished fellow townspeople in a primitive tribe without modern equipment."
"If you could truly make the entire town rich, let every one of them eat the finest food and have the warmest shelter, making their lives hundreds of times better than those homeless people's, then perhaps I could partly agree with your view that 'big cities really aren't good enough.'"
"But you're a complete idiot. You couldn't save the circus, couldn't restore the town's reputation, couldn't bring in more tourists, or give people higher incomes."
"Suppose you really had the ability to accomplish all that, letting people make money right on their doorstep and live the most prosperous lives. You wouldn't need to peddle this cult doctrine. They would stay and build their hometown instead of running off to work in big cities."
"Unfortunately, you don't have that ability. That's why you can only rely on a cult, using deception and brainwashing, even violent coercion, to force people to stay here and live their so-called peaceful lives."
"Deep down, you know it too. Without those methods, no one would sincerely love or respect you. All their praise for you is fake, built on coercion. Because you knew that wasn't good enough, you wanted to build your ideal country in the spiritual world."
"You changed all their minds and made everyone sincerely like you. But you also understood that it was still fake. The more they seemed to worship you as