DrakBibliophile wrote:IIRC there was a comment about the Church not accepting that Schuler (& apparently the other Archangels) had human descendants.
I suspect that when the crew starting the "playing angels game" that any sexual relationships between the crew & passengers were kept low-key.
Later on, the Church may have taken the public position that it never happened. Possibly because some churchmen tried to use the "we're descended from Archangels/Angels" as a power play.
It's possible that there were intra-command crew factors behind that. It'd be all too easy to see angel/colonist relationships as incredibly coercive given the power differential. "Sleep with me," says the Archangel Bob. A colonist wouldn't stand a chance; they wouldn't even know that they can say "no." The Catholic Church sexual abuse cases involved priests using the power and deference of their position to abuse children and get away with it for years. An "archangel/angel" on Safehold would have infinitely more power.
Even with all the psychological damage they were dealing with, I can't see the rest of the command crew being too accepting of such situations. If they were, they're even further gone than the series has suggested. And that's ignoring the increased likelihood of overhearing something, seeing something they shouldn't, or simply losing that sense of "awe" of the angelic command crew due to increased proximity.