The New REFORMATION of CHRISTIANITY [OOC, Open, Reboot]

[Camelone]

I am interested in continuing to play as the Synod of True Anglicans led by Primate Sinclair Kenton. The True Anglicans are Anglo-Catholics who have adopted the Benedict Option in many cases to create a Christian society in the ruins of an almost post-Christian nation and maintain the traditions of the Anglican church with a Catholic mindset.

[Zjaum]

I am interested in continuing to play as the Synod of True Anglicans led by Primate Sinclair Kenton. The True Anglicans are Anglo-Catholics who have adopted the Benedict Option in many cases to create a Christian society in the ruins of an almost post-Christian nation and maintain the traditions of the Anglican church with a Catholic mindset.

All right, welcome back then! Your application is accepted already, since you posted in the IC previously.

[Bruke]

I will continue to play as the UEC. We will radically transform the theology of Africa, the West, and the world!

[Vrijstaat Limburg]

I am interested in continuing to play as the Synod of True Anglicans led by Primate Sinclair Kenton. The True Anglicans are Anglo-Catholics who have adopted the Benedict Option in many cases to create a Christian society in the ruins of an almost post-Christian nation and maintain the traditions of the Anglican church with a Catholic mindset.

are you pro- or anti-vatican?

[Talchyon]

IC IS UP!

Good to hear. Looking forward to reading, and posting every so often.

[Zjaum]

I am interested in continuing to play as the Synod of True Anglicans led by Primate Sinclair Kenton. The True Anglicans are Anglo-Catholics who have adopted the Benedict Option in many cases to create a Christian society in the ruins of an almost post-Christian nation and maintain the traditions of the Anglican church with a Catholic mindset.

are you pro- or anti-vatican?

On the roster in the intro post, there's a link to the old application. What he can't answer directly you may find there.

[Entronium]

Hhhmmmm

Can we do religious cult sacrifices here?

[Zjaum]

Hhhmmmm

Can we do religious cult sacrifices here?

Well, sure, but you'll last realistically about ten seconds as the government raids your church and arrests all the leaders.

If you want to make a branch that actually makes a lasting impact, I would lay off the sacrifice part. I'd be happy to show you ways that you could peacefully differ from the rest of the flock.

[Vrijstaat Limburg]

are you pro- or anti-vatican?

On the roster in the intro post, there's a link to the old application. What he can't answer directly you may find there.

Thank you

[Entronium]

Wip
CHRISTIAN FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: ENTRONIUM
Faction Name: Hurttotisim
Nicknames: The grived ones, the fortunate finders
City of HQ: Atlanta,Georgia, U.S
Leader: Anoobus
Population: 6,885
Parent Denomination: Hutroin
Deviations (if applicable):
Background/Beliefs: The belief that all was created by a giant head known as Anoobus, and with the creation of this world came its problems and discouragements. Thus they belive that they are the clensers, the ones who surpport justice not to mention that inorder to achive this goal they must economically take over (not successful so far)
(Embolden the idea(s) your denomination supports;
embolden both for a neutral stance)
Predestination
Adaptation
Baptism: Optional
Cussing: Discouraged
Community

(This is good right or does it need to be redone?)

[Zjaum]

Wip
CHRISTIAN FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: ENTRONIUM
Faction Name: Hurttotisim
Nicknames: The grived ones, the fortunate finders
City of HQ: Atlanta,Georgia, U.S
Leader: Anoobus
Population: 6,885
Parent Denomination: Hutroin
Deviations (if applicable):
Background/Beliefs: The belief that all was created by a giant head known as Anoobus, and with the creation of this world came its problems and discouragements. Thus they belive that they are the clensers, the ones who surpport justice not to mention that inorder to achive this goal they must economically take over (not successful so far)
(Embolden the idea(s) your denomination supports;
embolden both for a neutral stance)
Predestination
Adaptation
Baptism: Optional
Cussing: Discouraged
Community

(This is good right or does it need to be redone?)

My one question is how the H-E-double-hockey-sticks does this cult have anything to do with Christianity. You can pose yourself as a secular faction, but practically 99.99% of Christian organizations won't take you seriously, much less as a Christian religion. If you can tie this back to Christian history (i.e, get a parent denomination and suggest a massive spin like Mormonism or Jehovah's Witnesses), then I see no reason why you need a Christian faction app.

As for everyone else, I'd like to post after one more intro/response, so if any of you have something to say for your faction, now would be the optimal time.

[Zjaum]

All right, update tomorrow!

[Talchyon]

All right, update tomorrow!

I'll just say that my California Lutherans are busy with an excess of extra duties and that's why they're just keeping in the background right now.

[Zjaum]

All right, I have an update! If you guys want to socialize, you can bring your respective representatives around Baker and Mebrete. If you want to speak, let me know, and I'll make a way for it in the IC. Otherwise, if you have other plans in mind, just post them; I'm hoping for an open-ended but well-controlled RP here! I will update again after two organizations' posts, as per my own personal RP rule.

[The United Artherian Federation]

SECULAR FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: Artheria
Faction Name: Quantum PMC
City of HQ: Chicago, Illinois
Leader: Executive Donald Braveheart
Population Membership: 104,354
Net Worth: $2.5 billion
Reason for Concern/Involvement: Profit
Are you partial to a side?: No. We are mercenaries.
How often does personal ethics go into your organization's policies?: Never. Whatever brings in the most profit.

[Zjaum]

SECULAR FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: Artheria
Faction Name:
City of HQ: Quantum PMC
Leader: Executive Donald Braveheart
Population Membership: 109,900
Net Worth: $5.6 Milion
Reason for Concern/Involvement: Profit
Are you partial to a side?: No. We are mercenaries.
How often does personal ethics go into your organization's policies?: Never. Whatever brings in the most profit.

I don't know how this is going to fit into a religious crisis (at least for the first dozen or so pages), tensions aren't going to escalate that quickly. Further, I don't know how a PMC can employ over 100K people yet only be worth 5.6M USD. Once that last thing is fixed, though, it can be accepted. You might get a little bored, though; I'd recommend a more relevant organization.

For the same reason as Artheria (that the application doesn't contribute but doesn't harm the plot), Hurttotisim (ENTRONIUM) are also accepted as a non-Christian faction. Fix your app to relate to Christianity, and I'll reconsider. I would also recommend that you create another faction in the meantime.

[The Frozen Forest]

CHRISTIAN FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: The Frozen Forest
Faction Name: Arcierism || Arcierites
Nicknames: I still have nothing for this.
City of HQ: Detroit, Michigan
Leader: Prophet Francesco Arcieri
Population: 76
Parent Denomination: Methodism
Deviations (if applicable): Er
Background/Beliefs: Arcierities believe that the souls of people are either light and dark. The soul itself of a person is either light or dark based on that persons sinful or virtuous behavior and thoughts. They believe that a persons soul from birth is a greyish neutral and will grow lighter or darker by accumulating the energy offset by those around them. As a person grows older they will continue to gather more negative or positive, light or dark energy within their soul, solidifying their thoughts and feelings and reinforcing them. Arcierites believe that good actions and thoughts as well as being near other positive Arcierites will allow for them to remain with positive souls will be allowed to enter heaven. Those with negative souls, who commit horrible sins will be confined to Hell until their souls have been purged of all negative energy. It is believed that those who are nearer to neutrality and the light will escape with most of their soul intact. Those who's souls were so dark they are irredeemable will have their soul destroyed in hell.

Arcierities believe that Jesus had an absolute neutral soul from birth until his death and resurrection. As the son of god his soul is tied closely to God, who himself has a neutral soul as the creator of the world and everything. They believe that people such as Osama Bin Laden or Stalin were consumed by absolute negativity up until their deaths, and that their souls were destroyed immediately as they were irredeemable. Figures such as the Buddha and Mohammed had souls of extreme light but were misguided. They believe that it is the job of any Arcierite is to be a positive energy on others, especially those who are close to having a positive soul. Arcierites have a strong emphasis on the family and believe fervently that couples should have as many children as possible.

The religion was founded by a Methodist, Italian-American pastorby the name of Francesco Arcieri. He is said to have received visions from god while hiking high in the Appalachian Mountains. He spent a year following the visions to study the personalities of individuals within history. He concluded that much of the Christian world had been misguided and would need to revert to past values while sharing the True Faith with those around them. He wrote the First and Second books of Arcierism, The Book of Souls and the Book of Salvation the following year and began to preach from a small Church outside Detroit. His message spread somewhat around the community, especially among the families of those damaged by the gang conflicts of the city.
(Embolden the idea(s) your denomination supports;
embolden both for a neutral stance)
Predestination/Free Will
Tradition/Adaptation
Baptism: Necessary/Optional
Cussing: Permitted/Discouraged
Individualism/Community

[The United Artherian Federation]

SECULAR FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: Artheria
Faction Name:
City of HQ: Quantum PMC
Leader: Executive Donald Braveheart
Population Membership: 109,900
Net Worth: $5.6 Milion
Reason for Concern/Involvement: Profit
Are you partial to a side?: No. We are mercenaries.
How often does personal ethics go into your organization's policies?: Never. Whatever brings in the most profit.

I don't know how this is going to fit into a religious crisis (at least for the first dozen or so pages), tensions aren't going to escalate that quickly. Further, I don't know how a PMC can employ over 100K people yet only be worth 5.6M USD. Once that last thing is fixed, though, it can be accepted. You might get a little bored, though; I'd recommend a more relevant organization.

For the same reason as Artheria (that the application doesn't contribute but doesn't harm the plot), Hurttotisim (ENTRONIUM) are also accepted as a non-Christian faction. Fix your app to relate to Christianity, and I'll reconsider. I would also recommend that you create another faction in the meantime.

Fixed.

[Zjaum]

CHRISTIAN FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: The Frozen Forest
Faction Name: Arcierism || Arcierites
Nicknames: I still have nothing for this.
City of HQ: Detroit, Michigan
Leader: Prophet Francesco Arcieri
Population: 76
Parent Denomination: Methodism
Deviations (if applicable): Er
Background/Beliefs: Arcierities believe that the souls of people are either light and dark. The soul itself of a person is either light or dark based on that persons sinful or virtuous behavior and thoughts. They believe that a persons soul from birth is a greyish neutral and will grow lighter or darker by accumulating the energy offset by those around them. As a person grows older they will continue to gather more negative or positive, light or dark energy within their soul, solidifying their thoughts and feelings and reinforcing them. Arcierites believe that good actions and thoughts as well as being near other positive Arcierites will allow for them to remain with positive souls will be allowed to enter heaven. Those with negative souls, who commit horrible sins will be confined to Hell until their souls have been purged of all negative energy. It is believed that those who are nearer to neutrality and the light will escape with most of their soul intact. Those who's souls were so dark they are irredeemable will have their soul destroyed in hell.

Arcierities believe that Jesus had an absolute neutral soul from birth until his death and resurrection. As the sun son of god his soul is tied closely to God, who himself has a neutral soul as the creator of the world and everything. They believe that people such as Osama Bin Laden or Stalin were consumed by absolute negativity up until their deaths, and that their souls were destroyed immediately as they were irredeemable. Figures such as the Buddha and Mohammed had souls of extreme light but were misguided. They believe that it is the job of any Arcierite is to be a positive energy on others, especially those who are close to having a positive soul. Arcierites have a strong emphasis on the family and believe fervently that couples should have as many children as possible.

The religion was founded by a Methodist, Italian-American pastorby the name of Francesco Arcieri. He is said to have received visions from god while hiking high in the Appalachian Mountains. He spent a year following the visions to study the personalities of individuals within history. He concluded that much of the Christian world had been misguided and would need to revert to past values while sharing the True Faith with those around them. He wrote the First and Second books of Arcierism, The Book of Souls and the Book of Salvation the following year and began to preach from a small Church outside Detroit. His message spread somewhat around the community, especially among the families of those damaged by the gang conflicts of the city.
(Embolden the idea(s) your denomination supports;
embolden both for a neutral stance)
Predestination/Free Will
Tradition/Adaptation
Baptism: Necessary/Optional
Cussing: Permitted/Discouraged
Individualism/Community

This was accepted last time, and, seeing no major changes, it is accepted now. Welcome aboard!

[Zjaum]

I don't know how this is going to fit into a religious crisis (at least for the first dozen or so pages), tensions aren't going to escalate that quickly. Further, I don't know how a PMC can employ over 100K people yet only be worth 5.6M USD. Once that last thing is fixed, though, it can be accepted. You might get a little bored, though; I'd recommend a more relevant organization.

For the same reason as Artheria (that the application doesn't contribute but doesn't harm the plot), Hurttotisim (ENTRONIUM) are also accepted as a non-Christian faction. Fix your app to relate to Christianity, and I'll reconsider. I would also recommend that you create another faction in the meantime.

Fixed.

Much more reasonable numbers. Welcome aboard! (Again, I recommend creating multiple factions to pass the time.)

I plan on updating the roster later tonight, seeing as I have prior occupations right now (including another RP I took over for a friend). Obviously the Arcierites are invited to the conference, and I'll just have Quantum PMC host the security for the event just because they need something to do right now.

[Zjaum]

This was simply a placeholder update, something to bump the RP, keep the conversation going, and give all the newcomers additional time to apply and/or join the conference. Reply if/when you'd like. The real meat will come soon.

[Vienna Eliot]

SECULAR FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: Vienna Eliot
Faction Name: The United States Federal Government
City of HQ: Washington, District of Columbia
Leader: President Richard G. Fischer (D); Speaker of the House Joyce Wu (R)
Population: about 1,000 officials; about 2.8m employees
Net Worth: about $123.8t

Reason for Concern/Involvement: A house divided against itself cannot stand. President Fischer swore to the American people in his inaugural address to mend the divisions that had cut America in two — but who could have told that American would be cut in three, maybe six or seven or nine? The new religious nature of the schisms make it all the worse; the President's Catholic faith was the subject of long and hard critique throughout the campaign, and the newly chosen Speaker Wu, an avowed atheist, has been meeting privately with Christian missionaries as of late — something the press is sure to pick up on soon. Congress and the White House, embodied by their two new leaders, are sure to find that they have swallowed a bit more than they can chew.

Are you partial to a side?: The President wants nothing more than to be wholly Roman Catholic, and for the nation to follow in his footsteps, but he has always felt something missing in his faith. He envies his Byzantine Catholic wife and children, his Mormon and Episcopalian and Methodist friends, and an intern to his spiritual advisor who piques his interest, one who has taken interest in the growing United Evangelical Church. The Speaker, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be wholly atheist. She insists to herself that the missionaries she's meeting and the different churches she's visiting are just exploration, a way to better understand the people she works with. But there's something else there, isn't there? Whether it's some spiritual connection or just chemicals and synapses in her brain, she's feeling something, and wants to go as far as she can, without hurting her political causes, to figure out what it is.

How often does personal ethics go into your organization's policies?: Always! Everyone in the Capitol and the White House does what they do because they know What's Best for the nation.

[Zjaum]

SECULAR FACTION APPLICATION
NS Name: Vienna Eliot
Faction Name: The United States Federal Government
City of HQ: Washington, District of Columbia
Leader: President Richard G. Fischer (D); Speaker of the House Joyce Wu (R)
Population: about 1,000 officials; about 2.8m employees
Net Worth: about $123.8t

Reason for Concern/Involvement: A house divided against itself cannot stand. President Fischer swore to the American people in his inaugural address to mend the divisions that had cut America in two — but who could have told that American would be cut in three, maybe six or seven or nine? The new religious nature of the schisms make it all the worse; the President's Catholic faith was the subject of long and hard critique throughout the campaign, and the newly chosen Speaker Wu, an avowed atheist, has been meeting privately with Christian missionaries as of late — something the press is sure to pick up on soon. Congress and the White House, embodied by their two new leaders, are sure to find that they have swallowed a bit more than they can chew.

Are you partial to a side?: The President wants nothing more than to be wholly Roman Catholic, and for the nation to follow in his footsteps, but he has always felt something missing in his faith. He envies his Byzantine Catholic wife and children, his Mormon and Episcopalian and Methodist friends, and an intern to his spiritual advisor who piques his interest, one who has taken interest in the growing United Evangelical Church in Ethiopia. The Speaker, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be wholly atheist. She insists to herself that the missionaries she's meeting and the different churches she's visiting are just exploration, a way to better understand the people she works with. But there's something else there, isn't there? Whether it's some spiritual connection or just chemicals and synapses in her brain, she's feeling something, and wants to go as far as she can, without hurting her political causes, to figure out what it is.

How often does personal ethics go into your organization's policies?: Always! Everyone in the Capitol and the White House does what they do because they know What's Best for the nation.

All right, I'll allow this, but just know that you can't get too overpowered; I will prevent you from straight-up eliminating other factions, and I will represent the American people (as well as all public opinion worldwide for the most part) in the RP, so unpopular moves will breed unpopular opinions. Accepted.

[Zjaum]

I apologize, but I want to make a high-quality post, and I'll have to post-pone until tomorrow morning. Rest assured; it's going to be a good one!

[Zjaum]

All right, everyone, post is up! I wanted to continue both the theological discussion aspects and the geopolitical thriller for the secular factions, so I included elements of both in my update. I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's reactions, and you can expect an update after two more posts!