Mormon & Evangelical Discuss Mormon History (Part 1 of 5)

I’m turning over the interview microphone to an evangelical! Steven Pynakker is the host of Mormon Book Reviews, and he wanted to learn more about me, Rick Bennett. But I have some questions for him too. How did an evangelical get interested in Mormonism?

Steve: Then I also have to say that growing up, I watched a lot of Battlestar Galactica reruns. I was always a very spiritual person from a very young age. So, the themes in Battlestar Galactica, they have a lot of spiritual things in there, like the lost tribes, and Adama. Then you had various–you had a Satan type character, and you had all this good and evil. It really spoke to me in a way that Star Wars didn’t, even though I loved Star Wars, the spirituality of Battlestar Galactica spoke to me on a deeper level.

GT: Now, do you know that was written by a Mormon?

Steve: Of course I do.

GT: Okay, good.

Steve: Let me show you part of my book collection, actually, on the bottom I have a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. I have the complete original series. But yeah, Glen A. Larson being a Mormon, of course, I found out that Kobol was actually Kolob. They had Kobol in the Battlestar Galactica show. I had no idea that–it wasn’t until high school that I realized that it had all this Mormon doctrine in it. I thought, “No wonder I liked that show so much,” because I’ve been interested in Mormonism most of my life.