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Not sure if anyone else here follows the new Battle Star Galatica series that just concluded, but I’ve heard there are connections, or similarities between the show and the LDS church. Has anyone heard of this, are these similarities if any intentional etc? If so, what are doctrines addressed that are perceived from the show?
 
The creator of the how back in the 70s Glenn Larson is discribed as a devout Mormon. Some of the places visited on the show besides having astrological names had names similar to places in Mormon theology.

At the finale of NuBSG the survivors of the great war, or is that the dead in their afterlife, got their very own planet to rule over and to populate.
 
The original had many mormon references. The wanderers in space called themselves a lost tribe. They were searching for the other tribes. They were looking for the planet Kobol, which is a take on the mormon star named Kolob.

Their govt was structured like the lds church. A president with a quorum. Adama was a prophet-like figure. Leading the lost tribe in the wilderness of space.

The newer BSG that just ended retained a few of the mormon references, but it wasn’t like the first version, it nearly bled with mormonisms.

I was a big fan of the first one. I thought the references to my-then lds religion were cool as can be.
 
1edyson said:
Not sure if anyone else here follows the new Battle Star Galatica series that just concluded, but I’ve heard there are connections, or similarities between the show and the LDS church. Has anyone heard of this, are these similarities if any intentional etc? If so, what are doctrines addressed that are perceived from the show?
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The original was rife with LDS references, from naming to plot. The new version? Not so much.
 
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examples, specifially with what LDS doctrine they were referring to?
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It’s hard for me to remember everything…but the entire plot line had ‘Book of Mormon’ events all over it. As well, at least one of the names has been mentioned. I think that it was more cultural than doctrinal, though…a sort of insiders code that Mormons ‘got.’

I watched the new series and I, science fiction geek that I actually am, didn’t like it. I watched the first three episodes and then haven’t watched it since.

Come to think of it, I haven’t seen any of the original ones since…WHEN was it first on?

One of the things that struck me was the basic idea of the ‘war in heaven.’ the concept that what Satan wants is total control of what we think, do and say, and that what God has given us, free will, is harder to deal with, but gives us the opportunity to grow the way God wants us TO grow. That was pretty clearly symbolized by the Cylons–and the whole idea behind the one guy who was the traitor and the evil doer who ended up in control of the Cylons…WHAT was his name?

Never mind…that is also a very LDS concept of the power of free agency. Symbolism all over the place.
 
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Not sure if anyone else here follows the new Battle Star Galatica series that just concluded, but I’ve heard there are connections, or similarities between the show and the LDS church. Has anyone heard of this, are these similarities if any intentional etc? If so, what are doctrines addressed that are perceived from the show?
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There are several sites out there which go into some detail about the “Mormonisms” in the original BSG. Here are a couple:

michaellorenzen.com/galactica.html
home.comcast.net/~billotto/Mormon_N_BSG.html

God bless,

James
 
1edyson said:
Not sure if anyone else here follows the new Battle Star Galatica series that just concluded, but I’ve heard there are connections, or similarities between the show and the LDS church. Has anyone heard of this, are these similarities if any intentional etc? If so, what are doctrines addressed that are perceived from the show?
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Certainly, it is well documented that BSG has nods to Mormonism. It’s creator was a Mormon. The planet Kobol is an anagram of Kolob. The Quorum. The Twelve Tribes. And more…

The religious and mythological references are not limited to Mormonism.
 
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