2006, Holy Advent Cult (Part 2)
Because the Force really exists, within the scope of Fourth Civilization, whether it is the Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao that they worship as gods, the mysterious Jedi Knight, and the Force-sensitive that gradually begin to increase in the principality, they are also reminding the people of this -
Supernatural power exists.
Therefore, in fact, during the Galactic Republic period, Jedi Order, the representative of the Force, had a status in the hearts of ordinary people that was mysterious, powerful, and otherworldly, but it was also accompanied by more fear.
Jedi Order was eventually destroyed. Although a large part of the reason was due to the conspiracy of Palpatine, another very key factor was that as an organization that still needed to absorb a lot of fresh blood from the people and constantly replenish the young Force-sensitive, they ended up being separated from the people.
People are afraid of them, afraid of Jedi Knight, and they are unwilling to send their children to Jedi Order. And even if they did it for various reasons, they still felt hatred for Jedi Order in their hearts.
Of course, Jedi Order they also have their own considerations. They are worried that the Force will be abused, worried that the balance of the Force will be broken, and more importantly, worried that a class will be formed because of the Force.
Because the Force is so powerful, if the number of Force-sensitive increases, then what they can do will indeed be far stronger than ordinary people. Over time, the powerful Force-sensitive will become superior, and ordinary people will become enslaved.
Therefore, in principle, Jedi Order does not agree with Jedi Knight starting a family, and intermarriage between Jedi Knight is absolutely not allowed. The purpose is to avoid the combination of Force-sensitive and form a powerful Force family.
Because of this, the number of Jedi Order is decreasing year by year. When Rusan Reforms a thousand years ago, there were about 20,000 Jedi Order, but when Clone Wars broke out, there were only more than 10,000 Jedi Knight left.
Similarly, when Galactic Republic was finally reorganized into the Galactic Empire, although Palpatine's policy towards Force-sensitive was completely opposite to Jedi Order's, one thing was the same - they both chose to conceal it from ordinary people. They don't want ordinary people to know too much about the Force. The only difference is that Galactic Republic is promoting Light Side of the Force, while Galactic Empire directly issues instructions. The existence of all Force-sensitive is illegal and must be officially controlled.
Therefore, although Galactic Empire still has many official Force-sensitive organizations, the people of the Empire still feel fearful, strange, and mysterious about the existence of the Force...
But now, Duchy of Dawn has gone in the opposite direction and chosen to popularize the Force.
Duchy of Dawn currently has four the Force organizations, the elite Twilight Covenant, the militarized Ghost Academy, the theoretical Holy Advent Research Institute, and the popular Holy Advent Cult. Among them, Holy Advent Research Institute was actually researched under the auspices of Holy Advent Cult.
These four organizations cover almost all Force-sensitive and Force-sensitive, and the most important thing is that not only such people, Holy Advent Cult is also open to ordinary people!
The sect basically has no restrictions on ordinary people. It mainly regulates their behavior and morality. It also guides them to understand the Force, revere 'The Unity', and worship the 'Son of God' Tang Xiao.
That's right, Holy Advent Cult regards Tang Xiao as the Son of God, not the Supreme God in the original version of the doctrine. To put it more bluntly, the previous doctrine was too bullshit and will always be exposed. But the 'Son of God' is different. He is a son, a son of God, an heir, a spokesman, whatever you want to call him.
As for those people who were preached by the first version of the doctrine, who are going to stand up and say, 'Eh? Why did you demote the supreme human god Tang Xiao? ' Don't worry, he will disappear the next day, silently.
In short, ordinary people who believe in Holy Advent Cult can attend regular sermons held in the church of the sect. In this ceremony, Force power powerful members of the sect—mainly the two classes of bishops and cardinals—will preach in person. The content of the sermon is not only to preach the doctrine of Holy Advent Cult, but also to make all the ordinary people participating feel the Force to some extent.
As for how to make them feel it, there are many ways. There are both the Force means and technological means.
Therefore, in this process, those ordinary people who sense the Force and have this unprecedented feeling will naturally continue to deepen their recognition of Holy Advent Cult, thus making the sect a universal religion that can penetrate the general public.
However, since Holy Advent Cult is still under development, the number of people is relatively small, especially the number of bishops and cardinals with a certain Force talent is very limited, so the sermon ceremony can only be held in big cities on some major planets. But even so, many people are now willing to take interstellar flights to these planets to participate in ceremonies.
This is the cohesion of religion.
Tang Xiao is very satisfied with the development of Holy Advent Cult so far, and is also very satisfied with the work of Helmut-Zemo and Anita.
Duchy of Dawn will not become a theocratic country at present, at least not yet, because Tang Xiao's power is far from enough. If one day he encounters a stronger opponent than him, then it will be troublesome if politics and religion are unified. Apart from anything else, at least the current Palpatine is recognized as being stronger than Tang Xiao. In the general perception of the entire galaxy, Tang Xiao is only the second strongest person in the galaxy.
Later, Helmut-Zemo asked Tang Xiao in a private situation whether to include Holy Advent Cult's Pontiff Anita into the harem, so that she could be convinced.
But Tang Xiao is very calm most of the time when it comes to lust and women. He told Zemo that he could never have any relationship with Anita. Because once the two have a relationship, in Anita's heart, he will no longer be a god who is always aloof and inaccessible, but a mortal who can have skin-to-skin intimacy.
In this way, maybe Anita will still remain loyal, but such loyalty will change. And there is no guarantee that some unforeseen changes will occur.
Of course, what Tang Xiao didn't tell Zemo was that, in terms of his aesthetic appreciation of women, Anita's adjusted image of a kind-hearted yet cold and solemn saint was indeed very beautiful, but it didn't actually poke his XP.
After five years of development, Holy Advent Cult already has tens of billions of followers within the scope of Duchy of Dawn. However, the current composition of these believers is still mainly humans among Fourth Civilization, and not many other races believe in Holy Advent Cult.
But this is enough. After all, the 600 billion people in Rendili Planet are basically all humans. It doesn't matter if these people don't agree with Fourth Civilization's values. As long as we strengthen missionary preaching and make them agree with Holy Advent Cult's teachings, it will be a great progress.