Jay Dugger wrote:

Mormons lack "preachers" per se, but unless you play with Mormons, that won't bother anyone. Perhaps jargon and doctrine changed significantly after the Fall.

Not to mention before the Fall. The political and economical changes were pretty big. (the preacher character is more of a badass gunslinger out of Dogs in the Wineyard than the missionaries that I regularly discombobulate with my questions about theology in many worlds cosmologies :-) His back-story involves surviving in the Martian outback during the Fall, which might have made him somewhat different... )

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I'll write up a few ideas on this theme, and I'll post them in the EP Homebrew forum. Until then, the Wikipedia articles on LDS denominations, the Articles of Faith, the history of Utah, the Salamander Letter, and on Mark Hoffman should give you plenty of raw material. The history of Mormon persecution in America might also translate nicely into Eclipse Phase.

Great ! I look forward to that.

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Yerameyahu, you refer to point of Mormon doctrine called the "Word of Wisdom." Wikipedia's article explains it well. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom) Nothing in it prevents one from having organ transplants, prostheses of any kind, nor does it forbid elective surgery. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (http://transfigurism.org) might discuss the contradiction you mention in more detail.

It looks like the Word of Wisdom aims at becoming more healthy and functional, so enhancements that promote real health and functioning might be entirely along this line. Petals are out, but a safe cognition enhancer used to do good work is OK.