Intergalactic Summit

It speaks volumes of your complete inability to actually partake in a rational debate when in the very piece you have quoted I never actually asked you that question. Why then quote it in the first place if you not only ignore its contents but construct an assertion on the basis of an outright lie?

Is verbosity now the doctrine of choice for the Theology Council in lieu of rationality and reason to cover up illogical argument, fallacy, irrationality, unsubstantiated claims, aspersion and even outright lies?

To which I am now curious since among your many unsubstantiated claims is that you are both an ordained Bishop of, and that your ministry is part of the Theology Council:

Are you, Constantin Baracca, an ordained and true Bishop of the Theology Council and that both yourself and your ministry is a current member of, and thus a direct representative of the Theology Council. That in the prosecution of your duties at home and abroad, you are expressing the truthful and honest orthodox doctrines of the Amarr Faith and its Scriptures as a direct representative and member of the Theology Council as it fully endorses and tacitly states as the unequivocal and inviolate Word of God as it applies both to the faithful of the Amarr Empire and non-believer alike as a cleric in its name?

Otherwise it would appear to me that you're just a self-appointed, "Bishop" of your own self-created ministry and you are preaching your own evangelical interpretations of the Scriptures in foreign lands without the actual backing of the Theology Council are you not?

Just so that there is no doubt we are referring to the same organization:

You are stating for the public record you are a member of the organization known as the Theology Council, CEO listed as Mervan Moritok; corporate ticker listed as, "T"; a member of the Amarr Empire faction with Headquarters listed as being in Avair VII - Moon 25 - Theology Council Tribunal?

You are a member and thus representative of the organization as outlined above?

Uh oh! His public info states that he is only a member of the Imperial Academy .... no mention of the Theology Council, might be safe to say he is another Amarrian teller of tall tales ..... lol .... the humiliation must be staggering!

Not even a wall of text can extract the Amarrian from the web he has woven. Tragic in a strange fashion i'll admit, but as the tales got larger and grander it was only a matter of time before he got hoisted upon his own petard.

His credentials are as false as his religion.

Ms Gesakaarin,

just for your information: Mervan Moritok is dead and the Theology Council [“T” stands for Treason] hasn’t chosen a new heresiarch yet.

And to my dear Bishop of the Hinterlands I say, should you ever “get involved” in the Khanid Kingdom or somewhere near me I will open fire without further notice.

Regards,
Odelya

Troublesome, this is troublesome indeed!

Forgive me, you mean the one that says very specifically that it is a legal organization. No, as I've previously stated, I am not a lawyer or a domestic government official. In Caldari terms, that would essentially be my shell corporation. I am ordained and work for them, but my task is not legislative or executive.

Most of the Theology Council's representatives performing ecclesiastical functions are not part of that august body. That is the part of the Council that handles the definitions of heresies and prosecutions of Scriptural doctrine. Other arms of the Council have formed corporations, but I have chosen definitively not to do so for several reasons.

The most important of these is that it would make operations outside the Amarr Empire very difficult. Imagine if I wanted to set up in Caldari space and I did not have the option of forming the NGO I did. If I incorporated the diocese, I would have to list as a foreign-owned corporation. That entails a ton of unnecessary legal loopholes to hop through.

The second and probably most important to the ministry itself is that people would then have to record the diocese as a place of employment. For the majority of parishioners, it is not. For those that are my clerical staff, they would be recorded as such on public nets. As you may have noticed, there are plenty of partisans who would like to use that sort of list to no end of trouble. As such, I keep that private to protect their identities. Most of the people in my diocese are not working for me, but are volunteering their time in between real jobs. I've no need to change that.

Third and most obviously, if I incorporated I would have to suddenly deal with war declarations. According to CONCORD, it is illegal to declare war on an entity such as the Imperial Academy. Hence I never changed it. It keeps my staff and me safe to remain with our parent universities or with larger corporations where we aren't going to be running across hostile forces very often. Incorporating the diocese itself would mean that any other corporation could open us up to legalized warfare. My staff includes few soldiers and to get involved in combat at any level isn't necessarily helpful to the mission.

So yes, I do work directly for the Theology Council as I have described. I'm sorry if my legal wrangling and statuses is confusing, but the entire point is safety and unity. Were the Theology Council to have found me a heretic, they likely would have killed me last week when I visited. You can, of course, follow the information I gave in order to check my official credentials.

I apologize if this was the cause of your concern. It's all very technical, but essentially it means I can focus on my mission rather than the intricacies of intercorporate politics. I've no interest in giving anyone a good excuse to attack my parishioners. It can be dangerous enough as it is for them.