Talk:Slane Theocracy/@comment-31365092-20170724144818/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180607103608

I think that anyone who was genuinely spiritually enlightened would willingly (eagerly, even) learn a lot from Ainz.

Every ruthless, murderous, short-sighted, regime in human history has pretended their leaders were extra holy and virtuous. Some do a better job pretending than others. And some of their pretenses are further from the truth than others.

The Theocracy is held together by their myth of divine mandate. So of course they put in the effort to prop that up in their rituals and depictions of events. But they also do things like massacring innocent villagers to lure out an honorable man so they can murder him while mocking him for being such a fool as to place the lives of villagers on the same level as his own.

One can say that they are doing the best with the limited power they have, and that may be true. But the flip side of that is that it involves admitting that it would be better to put someone with more might at his command in charge.