Humans are very strange creatures.
When any vulnerable group unites, their true intentions become distorted, and they evolve into beasts.
For example, feminism, which once pursued equality, has gradually evolved into rural feminism and extreme feminism, and has gradually changed from being supported by a large number of people to being hated by a large number of people.
For example, cat lovers have gradually become elderly, and their extreme cat-protecting behavior seriously infringes on the interests of others, causing a group with good intentions to gradually move towards being condemned by everyone.
Take squid, for example. Its original plight led the public to feel sorry for it, but it gradually became arrogant, revealed its true nature, and began to be hostile to the world.
The collective trend of humanity is a certain evolutionary process: weakness → being pitied → uniting → generating extremism and arrogance → damaging one's self-reputation → being disliked and resisted.
The Pale Church has been the same for the past three thousand years.
Such a large group will naturally produce a number of extremists, and these extremists, who make up a very small percentage, will account for 99% of the voices.
Therefore, over the past three thousand years, non-believers have become increasingly rebellious, and the number of people who disrespect God has increased.
You could say they're ungrateful, but ultimately, their actions are still somewhat understandable.
Therefore, Norton's self-sacrifice was smeared and vilified online, and even the separation of church and state by the Pale Church was met with applause online.
Humans have taken satire and sarcasm to an extreme, kicking someone when they're down.
"What's wrong with the Pale Church? Where's Hajinuo? Help them!"
"We really should have saved Hajinuo. It's all your fault for not saving him back then. Look at him now, he's Ascension."
"How can you talk like that? Hajinuo was being driven by countless souls on the sun, sacrificing herself with her beauty to save all of humanity. It's so touching. I'm planning to buy a spaceship ticket and go visit her."
"I can attest that what the person upstairs said is true. When it was my turn, the bowl was already huge, filled with freshly cooked white porridge. I didn't find it particularly interesting, so I took a sip and left."
"I heard that even the souls of horses have emerged?"
"They should have died long ago! The Pale Church has been in power for three thousand years. I've heard that the upper echelons have long been corrupted beyond recognition, with rampant embezzlement and corruption. How many second- and third-generation members does one Church support? And that Pale God is an idiot, constantly shouting about mercy and holiness, but doing absolutely nothing. If he were truly merciful and holy, he would have torn through space long ago to help humanity break through the limitations of reproduction speed. Instead, he waited until now, when humanity's Subspace Jump went wrong, before ascending to heaven to make amends."
He tried to salvage the situation? I even felt that his attempt was fake, just an act. He deserved to be ridiculed by his own soul!
"I still hear, I still hear about helping humanity break through the limits of reproduction speed, and that corruption is still rampant... Can't you brainless conspiracy theorists come up with a different story? The Pale God has been sitting here for three thousand years, watching the entire universe. All these years, I've only seen rape and murder at the bottom, crimes of passion. Have you ever seen corruption and abuse of power at the top? Every single one of those who abused power has been cremated on the spot. Can't you watch all those videos online yourselves? The annual bills published by the Human Federation Government and the Pale Church are detailed online every year. Can't you do the math yourselves?"
Let's see if anyone dares to be corrupt under the control of your Pale God and ancestors!
Oh, sorry, I forgot you guys are brainless idiots.
Putting aside your horribly stupidity, ask yourselves honestly how the Pale God has treated you. You were born and nurtured, given immortality and advancement; He gave you immortality and power, and yet you're still complaining with unsatisfied desires? And you even tore through space to help humanity solve the problem of reproduction.
Why don't you just let the Pale God curse you and solve your birth problem in one go? What's the point of you being alive if you have to let others solve everything? Do you even understand the Pale God? You idiot!
The online debate is extremely heated, and public opinion is not overwhelmingly in support of the Human Federation Government. A certain proportion of people are still capable of independent thinking. Although the reason why these people are more open-minded is mostly not because they are devout believers, this does not prevent them from Pale God Says.
After all, they had all received the grace of the Pale God Norton.
Unfortunately, they will never understand that Norton's psychological manipulation tactics ultimately turned the tide thanks to the thinking of these clear-headed individuals.
This is called a gentleman deceiving someone with principles.
That's why people always say Norton is a bad Biyang, because he doesn't care whether you're good or bad. He just takes you, uses you, throws you away, and forgets about you. He only remembers hatred, not kindness.
The online war is raging, while the offline war is even more frenzied.
Norton 3k, year 160, the first year after the Human Federation regained power.
Although the Pale Church has monopolized the power of law enforcement and rule, and has created a large number of Fifth Stage Church knights, it has not directly controlled the modern technology and military departments.
For the past three thousand years, it has been like a police system, without an army, where Church knights have replaced the police force.
Whether it's the military, high-tech combat readiness, or even factories, roads, municipalities, and all other powers except for regulatory authority, they are still actually operated by the Human Federation Government.
The Church is more like a high-caste Brahmin. The Human Federation of Human Federation can provide as many power armors as they want, as many weapons as they want, and whatever they want, the Human Federation of Humanity can provide. However, the departments that actually manufacture these things are controlled by the Human Federation.
Therefore, even though the number of Fifth Stage powerhouses in the Human Federation Government is less than that of the Pale Church, they can still put up a strong resistance and even gain a slight advantage if a war really breaks out.
In the Norton 3K era, year 163, news of the Pale Church's secession finally spread throughout all human interstellar colonies.
Today, the threat posed by the large number of fanatics is finally beginning to manifest.
Large numbers of Church fanatics traveled thousands of miles, traveling by spaceship and using space jump ships that are now becoming more sophisticated in this era, to return to the Garden of Eden.
Various spaceships hopped and occupied all the orbits in outer space of Garden of Eden, densely packed and endless.
Based on historical records and surviving images from the Human Federation.
On the day the Calamity of the Cross was proclaimed, spaceships blotted out the sun, and the sky darkened. The fanatics, like a flood of locusts, overturned the entire sky and scattered the entire earth.
Hundreds of billions of fanatical believers gathered in the sky and on the ground surrounding the Pale Holy See, the crowd so dense that it almost filled every inch of the entire Southern Continent.
The fanatical leaders, headed by Archbishop Marcus, gathered at the Pale Holy See, attempting a final effort to persuade Abraham, Duoxia, and Elizabeth— the three true members of Norton —to change their mindset, fight tenaciously, uphold the holiness of the Pale God, and restore the glory of the Pale Church!
However, by that afternoon, Marcus and his followers had returned empty-handed.
At the same time, the Pale Church issued its first orthodox statement since the separation of power.
"His Majesty founded the Church with the intention of mercy and holiness. Therefore, Church Church must not incite strife, must not cause chaos among the people, Church must not disrupt order. This is the foundation of His Majesty's mercy and the manifestation of the Church's holiness."
Therefore, all believers should strictly abide by the doctrines and His Majesty's ideals, return to their families, maintain peace and stability, and not allow their personal desires for status to disrupt the peaceful world!
The meaning of this statement is simple: the doctrine requires us not to disrupt the world's order, so the Human Federation should give him the power it wants, since if they don't, he will definitely start a war.
It must be said that the Pale Holy See is ultimately a sacred place in the hearts of believers, and the most orthodox official Church.
Following this announcement, large numbers of fanatics were forced to return to their families, board their own spaceships, and return to their planets, in accordance with doctrinal guidelines, foolishly and stubbornly carrying out all the demands of the Pale God and the Pale Church.
These are the true fanatics, who do not rebel against the Church in the slightest because of the so-called loss of ruling power.
Those who remained were only the extremists among the fanatics and all the pseudo-believers with their own ideas.
For example, Bishop Marcus.