Re: [HOE] Toxic Shamans and Heresy

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 09:42 AM 8/11/00, you wrote:
>             I like the Heresy of Angel worship idea for Toxic Shamans, Or
>maybe like the focus on 'Saints' in many Catholic places.  Really, when you
>pray to St Jude, aren't you really asking a Guardian Spirit to intercede on
>your behalf?  And does that make you less of a monotheist?

*ahem* Do you REALLY want me to go into that?  I am more then willing to 
discuss all the myriad labels and religious terminology that goes into such 
classification...but I gotta warn ya!

>     I'll be honest, on Toxic Shamans I really only refer to  corruptors,
>because Cleansers seem to be merely there so PC's can have Toxic-shaman
>powers and not be 'bad guys'.  (The fact that every arcane background in
>Deadlands has to have a 'good bunch' and an 'evil bunch'.)

mebbe

>     But on Green doomsayers spreading radiation.  Well, Radiation causes
>mutations.  They can irradiate food, cause radioactive storms.  Spreading
>radioactive waste... to doomsayers... is a GOOD THING!  Rads are like them
>little wafers in Catholicism, they're how God becomes a part of you and
>everyone should take a little green glowing communion.  If only to get
>Chosen.

Not necessarily.  Mutants can and do get the glows, die of irradiated food, 
suffer from all of the negative effects of radiation, ect.
Irradiating food could easily kill mutants as fast as it can make them, or 
make mutants sick unless they have one or two very specific mutations.  In 
fact, it is waaay more likely to kill or sicken then make 
mutants.  radioactive storms kill and fry mutants as well as 
norms.  Admittedly, they are more likely to mutate, but they are killing 
mutants and harming them.  so no..They are a BAD thing in many ways.

>     Wouldn't the Rad spirits love this?  And as such wouldn't they cluster
>around these guys?  The shamans have to find their radiation to spread, the
>Doomies have made it a part of them, and they're so willing to share.

yes, no, no


>     P.S. Anyone notice that Doomsayers don't have a power simply called
>'irradiate'?  Where they just irradiate an area?  I'd give that one to
>Doomies for free.


no they get a base miracle of Tolerance (not free but must be taken), that 
is to say RESIST radiation, and help others RESIST  radiation.  Only the 
truly demented want to irradiate that much.  I think you are mistaken on 
Theology

TBS