Worshipping this thing on the surface was a typical case of Mental Distortion. He clearly believed in atheism, yet the theists thought he devoutly believed in his own god.
This sort of thing could be used to deceive people, but whether it could fool a Contained Object was another matter. It all came down to which side was more absolute.
To test its effects, Catherine carved statues of the Electric Lamp Deity and the Deity of Computers.
As a veteran member of the Society, Catherine could basically do everything. The statues she carved were detailed and exquisite.
Before that, however, everyone first tried Self-Hypnosis, convincing themselves to believe in these false gods.
"Catherine, boot-up time: thirty minutes."
"Wu Yunmo, boot-up time: forty-seven minutes."
"Mo Qiong, boot-up time: one hour..."
Master Gou was in charge of recording the results. Although his figures were not as precise as those obtained by the Church using Contained Objects, the boot-up times of the Deity of Computers statues could still be used to support their estimates of everyone's faith values.
It had to be said that after using Self-Hypnosis, the members were still more devout than Andy, that little brat.
But their devotion had its limits. After all, being stronger than a five-year-old was useless. Relying on hypnosis to reach citizen-level devotion was unrealistic.
Any ordinary citizen could reduce the boot-up time to under a minute, let alone those Priests with astonishing faith.
Even if the members used the statues and deceived themselves as much as possible, compared with the people here, they were still just using super-old computers.
"I've done everything I can. If I want to increase my faith in Gods any further, I'll have to seal away all my memories of the Blue White Society. And if I do that... I won't