Church of Normality

The Church of Normality is a growing far-right conservative Christian megachurch and missionary based in the United States that regularly promote controversial and extremely old-fashioned views both morally and politically. They claim to be promoting strictly 'traditional values', however many individuals are known to very specifically want to "normalise" humanity by taking away "abnormalities", which includes all superhumans, superhero culture, homosexuality and transgenderism.

They were at the centre of several attacks on laboratories to try to obtain massive amounts of proteptomene16 and proteptogen, and their many variants, and it may be the case that they look for a way to permanently remove the powers of neohumans by force; while doing so is known to be impossible without killing them, the latter consequence may in fact be their intention.

### **History**

Believed to have gained popularity somewhere in rural Kansas in the early 2000's the church began as the Hoxie Lutheran Church as far back as the 80's, but it became more and more conservative over the years and diverged from Martin Luther's teachings drastically, particularly in the wake of more prominent superhuman activity, the church started out very small and remained that way for several years, but gained popularity when it began harbouring more and more far-right views.

By the 2010's it's influence outside of Kansas was noted, especially in terms of missionary work in Africa, and several churches in Kansas began adopting it's ideals and it, rebranding themselves the "Church of Normality" as they began to preach what they viewed as "normal", which earned them donations from the more powerful conservative megachurches.

Eventually by 2018 several members were involved in plots to steal proteptomine16 and proteptogen that could be used to temporarily null the powers of neohumans and some alts.

In 2020 both Starforce and VALER held investigations into the abduction of neohumans, and were traced back to members of the Church, in a joint mission in the September of 2020 VALER and Starforce rescued 23 neos from a facility, several of which later died to to extensive chemical treatments and brain injury, while massive prosecutions occurred, many of the owners somehow avoided jailtime and went into hiding.

### Values and Beliefs

The Church of Normality believed in a certain level of what they considered "normal", which was to them, a state of morals cleansed of "original sin", and thereby reducing society back to a "normality line", which prohibited and saw anything above that line in egregious violation of their God's nature.

Unlike Redemption, Normality saw science as aiding God, but one that had become corrupted, and believed that miracles could happen through scientific means as could any damnation; to this end the Church of Normality began investing millions of their donations into getting their hands on and trying to alter proteptomine variants, with one of their goals in developing a "cure" for superhuman powers that they saw as a violation of God's will.

The Church captured experimented on several neohuman children to try and "cure" them of their sin, only to have them suffer permanent brain damage or die altogether, however investigations and leads were often always covered up and a huge conspiracy began.

Their frustration and upon discovering what they already knew of permanently removing the powers of a neo; it was impossible without that neo dying, as such Normality seemed to settle into the rather horrifying conclusion that developing a chemical that kills only neos must be God's will.

While somewhat opposed to Redemption's ideals, if not purely due to their catholic views, and certainly vica verca, the Church of Normality and Redemption have met and had lengthy discussions about support.