Chapter 13: The Reform Council_3

Divine Arts were no different.

At the birth of the public faith—not the Church—Divine Arts were regarded as miracles, God's grace, the gospel spread through the hands of the clergy.

The Ancient Empire originally revered a polytheistic old religion and fiercely opposed the "heretics" who believed in public faith, with massacres and persecutions being commonplace.

Initially, public faith was a religion of the poor, "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," thus facing the ruling class's knives with no resistance at all.

For public faith to continue to exist, there was only one way: eliminate the rival and take their place.

Thus, public faith, originally spread among the poor, began to actively court the powerful and even transform itself to cater to the ruling class.

The Church—a strict, centralized organizational entity—also began to take shape during this period.