/lit/ - Literature

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>WWI
>A relatively new church is set somewhere in a small city of England, where people are encouraged to become better human beings by engaging in explicitly vocal pride of their racial, religious and national backgrounds
>eventually, the main cult leader of this religion starts turning people against each other, by having people of different backgrounds or religions or races or nationalities start attacking each other by using of triangulation once he gets to know each person separately
>the main character is the right hand man of the cult leader, who eagerly assumes the church once the leader ends up dying of an overdose of opiates
>Protagonist and his goons start a siege between catholic and protestant members of their church, and use the church's facade to launder money from the drug deal
>the story runs around the issues that start once the protagonist and his men murder fifteen people and throw their bodies in a hidden mass grave, so that they don't reveal bizarre secrets of their church for the public.
>the police gets to know about it but are bribed into silence
>a young man whose mother is killed among the group plans an assassination against the protagonist but is swiftly arrested and sent to jail, where he plots his revenge against the church
>meanwhile, a seemingly schizophrenic young woman appears claiming to be the bringer of apocalypse as foreseen by the church's books, but no one believes her, despite minor signals of supernatural powers, she is sent to be sold as a human sex slave among other young women who are also sold by the church

It's more like a draft of an idea than anything. Touches on themes of warmongering, ancient evils, religion, justice, dehumanization and war.