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Mormon Cosmology is Cool

Tyler Perry Are You Not Entertained? I am going to say something that will probably make some of my gay friends very unhappy with me. I love Ender’s Game .   Hands down, my favorite novel of all-time.   In so many ways, it defined my adolescence.   I felt such a connection to the struggle of Ender Wiggin as a kid who just did not quite fit in at home or at school.   I better understand the reasons why I struggled with those connections now, but that book gave me a sense of belonging and shared experience that I could hardly find anywhere else. Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game , tends to slip Mormon cosmology into his writing.   He literally wrote a series that is little more than a sci-fi retelling of the Book of Mormon.   He also participated in the writing of the script for my favorite original Xbox game, Advent Rising .   You have probably never heard of Advent Rising , as it was not terribly popular, it was super buggy, and it had...