From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@voyager.co.nz)
Date: Tue 07 Apr 1998 - 14:07:56 EEST
Chris Bell:
>Does the White Moon cult actually have any true magic or power?
Probably but I think it provides spiritual assurance rather
than nullify oppression.
>I'd suspect that if
>there weren't kind of mythic back-up or some power/legitimacy to the
>Cult, that the Lunar inquisitors would have checked the White Moonies
>into a Danfive Xaron penitent legion for treasonous apostacy.
Easier said than done. The Romans never managed to get rid of
the christians no matter how many Lions they fed.
>I can see some highly placed
>Teelo Norri and Deezola cultists giving the White Moon types some
>cover, regarding them as a cosmological necessity, even if not totally
>agreeing with them?
The cults of Deezola and Teelo Norri are _weak_. They've very
little influence in the Empire and are easily cowed into
submission by more powerful cliques.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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