[UA] Christian/Catholic Cults (was Campaign idea)

[Eric Brennan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>

> >In 1982, Hate broke up (because all the original members except Johnny
> were dead) and Johnny's longtime girlfriend and fellow occult enthusiast,
> Lilly Blade left him to join a Christian Cult.  Johnny took to alcohol and
> spent most of the money he'd made pursuing weird and mostly pointless
> occult oddities, recording music when the urge struck him.
>
> Was St. Cecil involved?  This seems like a St. Cecil move.

The synchronicity on this list is indeed odd.  I just got finished reading a
longish article in an academic journal on Catholic cults, specifically
things like Opus Dei, a real life European Catholic cult; and a couple of
American ones.  (One of them existed here in Maryland, but our dear Cardinal
Hickey took it apart...interesting story.  I'll fill anyone in if they're
interested.)
    One would think that a monolithic entity like the modern Catholic Church
could avoid really heavy-duty splinter cults who use activities like
arranged marriages and mind control, but there are some disturbing groups
out there, some of whom venerate individual leaders as much as they do the
Pope, or who claim to have "seceded" from the Church proper after Vatican
II.  Add to this mixture the rather heady brew already present in mainstream
Catholic belief  like the intercession of the Dead, which is disturbingly
necromantic; transubstantiation, with all of its alchemical overtones; and
the entire business of Sainthood itself, which is ripe for Iconomancy, and
you've got plot-hooks galore, especially for a St.Cecil game.
    To make this relevant to the post above, if it were me, I'd make the
Christian cult a catholic cult, but specifically non-Cecil.  That way, the
boys of St. Cecil could be called in (or show up to save the day) if things
got too hot in investigating them, or St. C's troops could be the PCs...
--Eric, a Catholic who's waiting for "Let God Sort Them Out" with baited
breath, as long as its not the kind of cursory hack-job I usually see on the
Church, which I doubt it will be given the writers.


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