Warning to Terra's rulers: "Boh giveth and Boh taketh away"by Orbán OlaszApril 3508
Father Vladan Martinek in Sörpatak "I've never heard anyone speak like this guy before," one audience member told me in terrified, hushed tones before scuttling down the corridor and out of the exit as fast as he could for fear that the Czarist police might be on their way to make arrests for conspiracy to treason. The young student had just listened to Father Vladan Martinek's speech at a 2000-strong meeting of his
Hosian Národná Strana (HNS) at the Hosian Conference Centre in Sörpatak
For years, the un-Bohly dictator Bassem Ahmad ruled Kalopia with a rod of steel and imposed evil and oppression on the good Hosian people living in that country. The bloodlust of he and his heretic Queranz supporters knew no bounds. Such was his hold on power that people thought change would never be possible. Now, thanks to our prayers, and thanks to the mercy of Boh, this vile Queranz tyrant has been removed from power. Once mighty, he is now fallen - on the run, like a common criminal. Some say he has come to Deltaria. If he is here, our government should capture him and return him to Kalopia in a cage so that he can face justice for his crimes. It doesn't matter that he has supported Deltaria in the war; his atrocities must be punished!
But let us not lose sight of the broader spiritual, moral and political message we need to draw from this: as the Scriptures say, "Boh giveth and Boh taketh away". And as the Scriptures say too:
"Praise be to the name of Boh for ever and ever;
wisdom and power are his.
He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him."
It is Boh who is Sovereign, not man, and it is the Law of Boh we are obliged to obey - not the foolish whims of man. Boh turned his face from Bassem Ahmad, and Bassem Ahmad fell from power as swiftly as Satanail fell from Heaven. Let every ruler in Terra, let every man of power, let every tyrant and would-be tyrant take heed of this!
During a question and answer session afterwards, Martinek was asked whether he had been commenting on Czar Ľubomír. Turning white-faced, he paused for some moments, then replied:
Czar Ľubomir is our Sovereign Monarch, a man appointed by Boh to rule over us. And do you know what that means? It means to reject the temporal authority of the Czar is to reject the religious authority of the Terran Patriarchal Church and the spiritual and eternal authority of Boh. As a patriotic Deltarian Hosian, I would rather disembowel myself with a table knife and cast myself alive into a furnace of fire than do those things.
Later, he went on to castigate Countess Anna Bátoriovská for her
armed revolt in the capital:
How dare she betray the Czar and endanger his Sacred Person? This woman is an unnatural abomination twice over, first for defying the Holy Law of Boh, and second for rebelling against the gentle nature of her sex.
Answering a question about the war with Zardugal, he commented:
I do not question the wisdom or the righteousness of the Czar. He is a holy man and is a blessing to the whole of Deltaria and beyond. But I do question the judgement and the motives of his advisers. When will they learn that it is Boh who determines the outcome of wars, and not men? If Deltaria is to succeed, we must prove ourselves worthy of His love. Unless we conduct the war justly, Boh will not be with us. And conducting the war justly means our army must stop conscripting children and prisoners. It must also purge itself of sodomy, stop using landmines against civilians and stop enslaving prisoners of war. This is why I am spearheading the
Prosecution of the War Act through the Deltarĭsko Věšte.