[UA] Re: UA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 357

[Brand Robins]

> Why can't Mormons send flowers?

Because Masons can't send flowers, and Mormons are just a new branch of
Masonry?



(http://www.cephasministry.com/mormons_masonry.html

http://www.lds-mormon.com/masonry.shtml

http://www.lds-mormon.com/morgan2.shtml

http://www.lds-mormon.com/mormonamerica.shtml)



Ya know, I'm a Mormon, and reading this stuff always makes me want to run a
UA game around the early church, with the last authentic thaumaturges
getting into wars with early cliomancers and competing cults trying to
modernize and project power...



It'd be glorious. Plus, I'd get to play Joseph Smith with a Thaumaturgy of
90% having secret occult wars with John Tyler -- who as we all know was an
avatar of the Two Faced Man who arranged for the execution of Harrison and
would later follow his avatar into joining the Confederacy as it rebelled
against the Union he had once been president of, and ended up as a supporter
for the slavery that Joseph Smith had opposed.



As for the general applicability of Mormons as villains, it makes perfect
sense - not because we're exotic, but because we're not. Mormons are the
friendly, clean, honest neighbor who smiles at you and helps you move in and
brings you brownies - but who goes to secret rituals at a temple that you
can't go into, has a church that takes 1/10th their money and won't let them
drink coffee, and has a history that is murky at best. We're almost like
you, then aren't. We have scientists and engineers and other rational men of
science forming a preponderance of our leadership - yet these men of science
will speak of "being guided by the spirit" with the same earnest
practicality with which they speak of building a bridge, or a Patriot
missile. (Did you know a good chunk of the Skunk Works and China Lake guys
are Mormon?) They're almost modern rational American peoples, with big
middle American families and solid common sense, but then they belong to a
weird, secretive religion that sometimes kidnaps little girls.



We are, in short, really easy to make into all the worst aspects of the
Occult Underground. Not the psycho on the street, but the friendly neighbor
who secretly does rituals with his cult while offering to mow your lawn. It'
s Rosmary's Baby time, all the time.