Brainwasher5 wrote:
Back on topic...I don't think it's unreasonable that there's no sign of the Mormon Church after 20 years of apocalypse. If the United States military didn't stand a chance, it's hard to imagine a church faring better (even if they were armed with every gun ever and barricaded up in their building they would have lasted only a couple of months at most unless I am severely underestimating the size of basements in LDS churches and their capacity to store food).
While it's unlikely you'll ever see this, in the LDS church members are commanded to have at least a 6 month supply of food (for emergencies that crop up, such as losing your job, earthquake, etc.) and work towards a 2 year supply. LDS churches don't store food, but there usually are warehouses for helping the poor, in addition as mentioned members will store food on their own.
As to everyone else, confusion is mainly over the fact that a survivor group isn't displayed next to the Salt Lake Temple (noticing the slight green tinge to the temple which an LDS survivor group if still following the faith would never let happen), one of the most iconic and the oldest standing LDS temple in the world and considering several million members live within several hundred miles of it. In addition states such as Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana have been ranked as the most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse because 1. Large number of Guns and lots of practice with shooting, hunting, and lasertag being favorite pastimes 2. Camping skills and survival skills are fairly plentiful in the region thanks to the large number of camping spots and hunting also being a sport 3. Lots of food storage, there seems to be a lot of people who plan for the worst even outside the LDS church 4. The clean cut hairstyles and lack of piercings (only 1 on each ear for women and no others) that is the main style of the region and a commandment of the LDS church that I've seen cited as making it harder for zombies to grab.
Would many LDS people die in the beginning, yes, especially in the cities which essentially become slaughterhouses at the beginning of the apocalypse and as shown in the game, for a long time afterwards. It's also reasonable to believe that the LDS church would make new headquarters, or degenerate into small communities without a head (there are already many communities made of people that practice their own version of the LDS faith). So perhaps the depiction was reasonable and certainly I noticed several more major flaws in the world (like the fungus somehow being able to get through the blood-brain barrier when as far as I know no fungus is currently capable of doing so and would likely be too big to get through and the fact that Marlene said they identified the immunity as the fungus having mutated which caused serious doubt for me as to whether a "vaccine," which IRL only work against viruses, could be created as it could have nothing to do with Ellie and everything to do with a mutated fungus gene which isn't recreatable with drugs). But I digress, Probably almost every LDS member (including me) who watched/played the game were excited when the game included the Salt Lake Temple and then thought, "Wait, where are the survivors?"