This is the secular front for an arm of the Bill Gothard cult.? They have aligned their 49 character qualities with the ?49 General Commands of Christ,? a weird treatise by Gothard.

Using the concept of ?character? as a mask to their extreme religious agenda, the Character Cities movement attempts to infiltrate the public sphere with cult-like religious undertones.

Some view this as part of a ?dominionist? movement, where players believe ?dominion? must be established over Earth?s governments to prepare for the second coming of Christ.