Intergalactic Summit

Most beloved brethren: Urged by necessity, have come into these forum with a divine admonition to you, the servants of God. I hoped to find you as faithful and as zealous in the service of God. But if there is in you any deformity or crookedness contrary to God's law, with divine help it can be restored. For God has put you as stewards over his family to minister to it. Happy indeed will you be if he finds you faithful in your stewardship. You are called shepherds; see that you do not act as savages. But be true shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. Do not go to sleep, but guard on all sides the flock committed to you. For if through your carelessness or negligence a wolf carries away one of your sheep, you will surely lose the reward laid up for you with God. And after you have been bitterly scourged with remorse for your faults-, you will be fiercely overwhelmed in oblivion, the abode of death.

It is indeed necessary for you to correct with the salt of wisdom this foolish people which is so devoted to the vices of this world, lest the Lord, when He may wish to speak to them, find them putrefied by their sins unsalted and stinking. For if He, shall find worms of sin in them, because you have been negligent in your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into the abyss of unclean things. And because you cannot restore to Him His great loss, He will surely condemn you and drive you from His loving presence.

But the man who applies this salt should be prudent, provident, modest, learned, peaceable, watchful, pious, just, equitable, and pure. For how can the ignorant teach others? How can the licentious make others modest? And how can the impure make others pure? If anyone hates peace, how can he make others peaceable? Or if anyone has soiled his hands with baseness, how can he cleanse the impurities of another? We read also that if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. But first correct yourselves, in order that free from blame , you may be able to correct those who are subject to you. If you wish to be the friends of God, gladly do the things which you know will please Him. You must especially let all matters that pertain to the church be controlled by the law of the church. And be careful that simony does not take root among you, lest both those who buy and those who sell the tithes of God for profit be beaten with the scourges of the Lord through narrow streets and driven into the place of destruction and confusion. Keep the faithful and the clergy in all its grades entirely free from the secular power.

Dominus illuminatio mea

I agree, initiate von Khan. But, if we do as you say, this forum would remain silent. We are all stained by the blood of war, of mistakes of the past, and the weaknesses of humanity. We can strive to overcome them and make an example of ourselves, and maybe some are able. I surely am not, but I guess I am not an example.

But you can't expect all of the members of the loyals to the Empire to be pure and above sin. It would be great if such was the case, but I'm afraid not. I've flown with officers that were drunkards, drug addicts, that held small deviations from orthodox faith, prone to lust, or any other of the weaknesses humans suffer. And they gave all they had to the Empire, some of them even in a definitive way as they lacked pod implants.

We are not angels, initiate, we do as much as we can with out blood stained cards.

Sadly, they are no less human than the rest of us, and subject to our same weaknesses.

The Amarr have been charged by God to reclaim the heavens in His name. Everyday that we do not strive to do so is a day wasted. Your words have given me much to think about, sirs.

I agree that most citizens of the Empire should just keep quiet. Then again, hearing their fearful murmurs do help me get to sleep at night, so... Maybe not.

God wills it!

I must admit I expected something more elaborate on the part of a Blood Raider. Guess I was wrong, shouldn't have such high expectations from you. But you could have reduced it to a simple "generic phrase against the Empire and how evil we are", would have been as clear and not sound as cheap.

I did not read the entirety of your wall of text, but judging by the followup responses, I assume the tl:dr is Amarr Victor!! to which I wholeheartedly agree.

You have given me much to meditate on Brother von Kahn.

Praise be to God, Amarr Victor.