ABOUT
The Church of Clear Hope, or Clarology, is led by a Council of Clarology in the interests of spreading and strengthening the faith all around the world. The founder of the Church, Laurence Oller, remains highly venerated throughout the Church and its followers. His successor, Samantha Kramer, is the head of the organization by request of Oller's Final Testament.
Laurence Oller
Founder of Clarology
Samantha Kramer
Chairwoman of the Board
Born January 11, 1982 in San Bernardino, California, Laurence "Larry" Oller was a successful businessman and multi-billionaire by his 27th birthday ($245 billion net worth). At the time he had already established himself as a posh and suave leader in the eyes of the media and had close relations with American politicians and other businessmen. However, his life came to a screeching halt after his wife had a miscarriage with their first child. After such a tragedy, his wife looked towards drugs in order to quell her pain; ultimately, after many overdoses and failed attempts by psychologists to help her, she died in her sleep in 2011. Feeling distraught and seeing psychologists as frauds for their failures to help his wife, he embarked on his own mission to help people.
By 2012, Oller hired a staff of scientists and began production on a series of trials developing better technology and mental health data. In a freak accident on August 2012, Oller was left unconscious for over 2100 hours. However by December 2012, he awoke and began describing what he saw to the hospital staff he was with at the time. At first he was dismissed, so once he was released from medical care he began writing his visions of what he saw from the past, present, and future. Along with this he was able to find new ways to develop medical technology for a more productive and lower-priced healthcare, which he first introduced to the public in the opening of the first Church of Clear Hope on June 2014, where he cured 3 people that day: 1) a blind elderly man aged 67, 2) a middle-aged woman with a missing limb who lost it in combat, and 3) a handicapped, wheelchair-bound girl aged 12.
In 2020, Laurence Oller won the United States presidential election against then President, Donald Trump. His candidacy had him represented as a "human capitalist" and a "technocrat" supporting concepts such as "universal basic income", "demilitarization", and the promotion of "global cooperation and free trade". During his presidency, he grew relations with Russia and China, dispelling any harmful tensions between them and, by 2022, was able to convince both countries, as well as others, to begin the construction of Clarologist churches within their countries. By 2024, he had successfully won not only the election, with 78% of the popular vote, but of the minds of the people in convincing them to join the Church of Clarology. In 2026, polls were released which showed Oller with a consistent strand of positive approval ratings with the lowest percentage (53%) being in 2021. These approval ratings, helped him consolidate more political power than any candidate in history and in 2027 the Congress elected to abolish term limits on the US presidency. Due to this, Oller would remain President, and grow the Church, on through to the 2030s until his political retirement in 2040 after his 5th consecutive term.
By the end of his life in 2052, Oller had not only lived a long and full-life, but a charitable and productive life in giving hope to the billions all over this globe. His name will be remembered alongside the other greats from Washington to Lincoln and Clinton to Obama.
Born October 19, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, Samantha Kramer is a life-long member of the Church of Clear Hope and a prominent businesswoman as the former executive head of British Petroleum. She rose as the head of the Church after the passing of Oller in 2052 after recommendation by Oller given to the Church in his "final testament". Oller's reasoning for the decision was his belief in Kramer's strong leadership style and undying loyalty to the Church and the preservation of Clarology through the years. Other specific reasons pertain to her age and Oller's wanting of a young and unrelated successor to the reigns of the Church. So after succeeding Oller, she did not question his decision and has remained loyal to his words throughout her tenure.
In November 2053, her first true dilemma came in the form of corruption within the Church's hierarchy, in which she conducted multiple purges and "cleaning up" for the Church. The people removed from the Church and ultimately blacklisted were charged with stealing Church technology and pocketing Church donations. Criticisms of her handling of the situation, were mostly positive with negative press seeking to defend the corrupt officials while blasting fake news referring to the Church organization as a "cult". By the next year, the news would return to normal until her decision to open up the "Karma Foundation" on July 2054.
The Karma Foundation was an organization inside of the Church which assessed a social credit system for daily operations with Church-goers in an attempt to prevent another corruption scandal within the Church as well as prevent Church technology from being stolen again. The organization has been received positively by the overarching public and media outlets as a step in the right direction. People with a low social credit score have been dealt with accordingly to better care for people's protection from dark forces with resistance being futile - what? Disregard that.
After the success of the Karma Foundation, Kramer would continue the Church's interests and make it's influence greater on the African continent in 2056. While teaching the glories of Clarology to children throughout the continent, she met her future husband, a 36-year old man from South Africa named Siyaya Mabandala. Siyaya originally was a patient of the Church's medical wing and was waiting to use the technology in order to cure his deafness. However, due to the long wait and other complications, he did not receive treatment until two years later, after which he was able to finally hear for the first time in twenty years.
Today, Kramer still upholds and defends the Church from critics and devious interests while being the mother of her daughter, Brianna Mabandala (b.2060).
Robert Oller
Minister of Resources
Robert Oller
Minister of Resources
Born May 23, 2018, Robert "Bobby" Oller is the oldest child of Laurence Oller and is a successful businessman, politician, and foreign diplomat (2052-2060). He is the oldest of six boys and seven girls with three of his siblings sharing the same mother.
Robert is often regarded in a similar fashion to his father and has a considerable amount of power within the Church, where he continues to donate millions of his nearly $102 billion dollar net worth. He is also the Church's official "Minister of Resources" which sees him visiting different countries looking to find more participants willing to help the Church in anyway they can through mental health and technological research.
Madeleine Oller
Religious Legal Adviser
Born September 2, 2021, Madeleine Oller is the second oldest child of Laurence Oller and is a successful businesswoman, attorney, and presidential diplomatic adviser (2052-2060).
Madeleine is often regarded as a strong and confident mother of three who has represented the Church since she was a little girl starring in promotional advertisements for the Church as a toddler and now defending the Church from inflammatory allegations from bad faith actors and anti-religious activists.