Blood Oath, Blood River by Michael Richan

Author:Michael Richan [Richan, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dantull
Published: 2014-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

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“What was all that about robbers?” Winn asked Deem as they sat in a booth at the restaurant. He was guzzling a beer and she was sipping on Diet Coke.

“Oh, you mean at Dayton’s?” Deem asked.

“Yeah. You called the secret council ‘gaddy-something robbers’. And Danites. What is all that?”

“I knew it would bother him,” Deem said. “Gadianton Robbers. They’re characters from the Book of Mormon. They were considered an evil, secret organization that would extort governments. Kind of like an organized crime syndicate, but really big.”

“It did bother him,” Winn said. “I saw the look on his face when you brought it up. And Danites?”

“When the church was still in Missouri, before they moved to Utah, they were under heavy persecution from the locals. To fight back, Joseph Smith organized a secret group of people to do the church’s dirty work. They operated in secret, and they were called Danites. The name comes from the book of Daniel in the Old Testament. Anyway, they’d fight back against the Missourians. It’s what led Missouri to issue their extermination order.”

“Extermination order?” Winn asked. “Extermination of what?”

“Mormons,” Deem said.

“A U.S. state issued an order to exterminate all Mormons?” Winn asked. “I find that hard to believe.”

“You weren’t paying attention in history class,” Deem said. “Missouri hated the Mormons. Especially when a Danite shot the Governor.”

“You’re making this up!” Winn said as the food arrived and he dived into a patty melt.

“No, I’m not!” Deem said, pouring ketchup over her fries. “The order wasn’t rescinded until 1976. Anyway, when the Mormons moved to Utah in 1847, the Danites came with them. People think they took orders from Brigham Young, but since they operated in secret, no one knows. The rumors have always persisted though. Many people think they’re still active today, controlled by the church. They clean up problems, put pressure on enemies of the church, that kind of thing.”

“Like Men in Black?” Winn asked.

“I guess, if Men in Black are even real.”

“Oh, they’re real.”

“Here we go with the UFO shit again.”

“It’s not shit, Deem.”

“Well, whatever. I have no idea if they exist or not. But think about this, Winn. We’re both gifted, right? And we got it from our parents. My father was gifted, so was your mom. They got it from their parents, and so on. This goes way back. Who knows when it first started? Maybe it’s existed from the very beginning. That means, throughout history, there have been gifted people operating in society, including the Mormon church, right? It’s not just Dayton and my father. They’ve existed all along. This secret council that Dayton is part of might have been formed in the earliest days of Mormonism, and there’s probably similar groups in other religions. Maybe that’s what parts of Opus Dei are, to the Catholics. We just have to deal with it here because there’s so many Mormons, kind of like how we have to deal with the mutations in the River because we’re downwind. If we were back east, it might be a group of secret Catholics, or in the south, secret Baptists.

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