03/12/2006 - captions by substrate and The Walkin' Dude - graphics and additional captions by Cardinal Zelph
Traditionalists might call for baseball-style cards, with stats and a few factoids and quotes, but I'd go for Pokemon-style cards, where different GAs and different levels of the hierarchy have special powers. You could play some cool games matching, say, Dallin Oaks against Thomas Monson.
A few suggestions:








These are brilliant. Good job. - 04/21/2008 - Darren
Thank you for this. It was a good laugh. For the person who said "you aren't doing what Jesus would do" might I remind you what Jesus actually did do to the money changers in the temple?
The General Authorities in these playing cards can thank God this person isn't doing what Jesus would do. Instead, this person is simply using humor therapeutically. Therapeutic for her/himself and for so many of us who literally feel like we have been raped, over and over, by these men. This is a very clear visualization of the way we see these men now. Is it extreme? You bet.
It's extreme because of the deep seated betrayal and spiritual rape done by those who conceived and continue to propagate Mormon Doctrine on us fools who believed, or even continue to believe. These men are evil, every last one of them and they know it perfectly well, because in order to do what they do in leading this church, they lie to millions of trusting souls on a daily basis and take their money.
Considering the mystical origins of the Church and Joseph Smith's propensity for openly practicing magic before he formed the Church and relabeled his divining, I think these playing cards are most disturbing because they are so appropriate for their subjects. If they offend faithful Mormons, I submit that they'll get over it a hell of a lot sooner than I will get over losing the first 30 years of my life to these evil confidence men. - 04/11/2008 - anon
Those are awesome! Who cares if people are offended, it's called the 1st amendment people! The right to free speech? You have your opinion and those that made these cards have theirs! And btw it is a great opinion at that!
Don't forget people it's called a joke. :-D - 04/01/2008 - nevermo12
I cant believe you feel this way about us. Im sorry you see us like that. I hope someday that you will reconize what we are really about, I hope you will hear the truth soon. - 03/27/2008 - hope
It is sad that one of satins minions would stoop so low as to make people look evil. Whoever did these cards had a very evil dark satanic heart. - 03/19/2008 - Paul
Yeah, way to go douchebag. As a former member of the LDS church, I have my beefs with it, but your portrayal of these men is wrong to the point of being evil. I'm sickened even more by the fact that Gordon B. Hinkley passed away just a few days ago and today I've stumbled upon one of the most offensive and misinformative sites on the LDS church I've ever seen. - 03/17/2008 - Teract
wow! these cards are awesome! i wish i was a loser like you guys, so i could sit in my mom's basement and have totally sweet ideas on how to show everybody how big of of a prejudice bitter simp I am. you should be proud of how misguided all of you are. way to go! - 02/10/2008 - mitch
How about General Authority Tarot cards? Or would that be sinful? - 12/30/2007 - Fran Monro
I want to let you know that what you are doing is very immature. It is shown in the fact that you have the time to go and make "Trading Cards" that mock peoples faith and leaders.
I hope that you are not Christian. If so you are a nominal Christian, because you are not acting as a true Christian would. Because you are obviously too busy wasting your time making cards.
And you have obviously never heard of WWJD, which stands for "What Would Jesus Do". Because you are definately not doing What Jesus Would Do. - 12/01/2007 - Proud Mormon
I hope that whoever made these pictures know that they are very immature and rude. These men are most respected in many peoples lives and the way that you portray them is completely disrespectful and inconsiderate. Why would you waste your precious time hurting perfectly good people, even if you hate the mormon people do you not consider this a little extreme?? i just want you to know that i have a testimony of this gospel in which you so rudely show to people. It is the most true church and these men should be respected and you have not given them that respect that they deserve. i highly belive that gordon B. Hinkley,Joseph smith, and all the men that you have on here are men of god and are called by god to help us in these times. I highly disagree with what you have done and would appreciate you to do some better reasearch on these individuals(because you DO NOt know who they are obviously) and make some better "cards" or not do this at all because it isn't what many people would like. and i hope that you would have some respect for others. Just think about someone you love and respect and if they had this kind of stuff up about them in which YOU know is not true and is only trying to be hurtful to that individual or group. if you could do me any favor i would ask you to read the book of mormon and also read about gordon b hinkley and the other men that you have made these cards out of and then decide if what you are doing is the right thing to do. thank you for your time and i hoope you understand that i love these men and this church and would not have put my time into this comment if i did not KNOW it was true!!! - 11/01/2007 - wow
How many GAs are there? (obviously) No Need for any female/RS officer cards...UNLESS their heads can be pasted on swimsuit models, that is.
I'm up for a couple decks.... count me IN O & BTW. MUST HAVE a Mark Hoffmann card, with Wrinkley in the background, SLC police taking notes. - 09/12/2007 - anders
I would love to have a set of cards like this. This is awesome!!! - 01/26/2007 - stones
I would love to see the 3 Nephites come into play. Wilford Woodruff would have to have the ability to disappear especially when secular authority is present. - 05/07/2006 - Smokey Robinson
I was thinking that we need to balance this deck out with some people in the exmormon and anti mormon communities like Steve Benson, the Tanners, Bob Mccue and others past and present to battle the dark forces of mormondumb. - 05/07/2006 - Jamerica
Wow, this is a great set. Where can I get them. Can they be interchanged with Yugi-Yo cards? Are they the same size, so I can slip them into Yugi-Yo sets unnoticed? - 04/26/2006 - desert_vulture
You could also do a deck of 52 playing cards like the US did for the top wanted Iraqis. - 02/27/2006 - Anon
I think that they should be like Magic cards (as in Magic: The Gathering), but instead of having power and toughness numbers, the GA cards should have deceitfulness and obstinance numbers.
There should also be temple cards that give extra bonuses to the GAs in play. And cards for all of the church universities, church office buildings, church historical sites, and the MTC.
One of the cards would be "Mountain Meadows," which would give a penalty to the GA cards. Maybe another card could be "Senility," which you could play on a GA who has been in play for a certain number of turn. Maybe other cards than would penalize the GAs would be "Kinderhook Plates," "DNA," "Civil Rights," "The Internet," "Salamander Letter," "Adam God Theory," "Blood Atonement," "Book of Breathings," "King Follett Discourse," "Masonic Rites," "Fundamentalist Schism," "Publicized Excommunication," "Sunstone," "Archaic Missionary Program," "Polygamist Journal," "Scriptural Revisions," and "Moon Quakers."
Oh, and also "FARMS" and "FAIR" cards that increase the deceitfulness of each GA in play.
Oh, and lest I forget. There should also be cards that "counter" or "remove" the aforementioned "GA-penalizing" cards. These "counter" cards could have titles like, "I Don't Know That We Teach That," "That's In the Past," "I Am Sustained As Such," and "That's Just a Couplet." - - 02/27/2006 - Ron Jeremy
We would also need to add the: When the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done, which adds a plus 2 to the obedience power, but a minus 10 to the apostate change parameter.
Also need the I am the prophet and can speak on any subject, even if I am not an expert. Giving a plus 5 for gullibleness for TBM card traders and another minus 10 for the 'So-called intellectual' card of independent thinking. - 02/27/2006 - Seneca
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