[DL] Opinion on the Bless'd

["Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>]

Heya... I was wondering if anyone would give me an opinion:

One of my players was discussing Deadlands characters w/ me - and he
believes that ALL preachers/holy people, of  any faith, are Blessed (as in
Arcane Bkgnd: Blessed) and have all the rights/responsibilities as related
to that. I disagree. I believe you can have a right holy preacher or other
good standing leader of a religious group w/o being blessed. Being blessed
is a special gift from the God/dess/es of your choice. In my opinion, there
are NOT tons of AB characters running about (my opinion is there's no more
then 1500 Harrowed, 800 or so Blessed, 2000 Hucksters, 1000 Mad Scientists
and some 1300 shamans in all of North America), and having every preacher
who's in good standing be Blessed is unbalanced. So what do you all think?

-Stryfe