Now, me being a bisexual and an atheist, this kinda touched me on both sides. In the same part he says something which I find somewhat disturbing : "I believe that a prophet of God has said that widespread legislation to approve gay marriage will bring pain and suffering to all involved." He says that in the context that he believes gay marriage is (from a religious point of view) against the will of God, but that that doesn't mean that homosexuals shouldn't get their rights. He believes that marriage is a bond exclusive to religion, and should be bound by God's will only. He states that he believes that gays should get their rights, just not under the name of marriage. In the third part of his edit, he addresses his stance on gay marriage. What I'm interested in is the edit by Sanderson on the 29th of August 2011 (the original article was published on thr 27th of October 2007). What I will address here isn't the part about Dumbledore, though that is interesting enough. Then, I proceeded to read the second entry, named Dumbledore's Homosexuality.
This was shocking because what I knew about Sanderson didn't imply any of the above traits. They were extremely conservative, mostly homophobic and simply not accepting of others. This was rather shocking to me, as I've always considered Mormons to be a hateful, irrational bunch. In this rant, he discusses the definitions attributed to the world Christian by random individuals, stating that he feels that anyone who lives his life in the core soul and ideas of Jesus is a Christian, even if he does some minor things that some churches think is wrong.īut, what really caught my eye, was that fact that Sanderson was a Mormon. The two main related results were two enterings in his EUOLogy blogs (or whatever they're called) I clicked on the first one, titled Religion Rant.
Again, he seemed pretty cool.īut I suddenly got very curious, and went on google and typed "Brandon Sanderson's religion". I've never really known anything personal about the man, apart from his age, and being followed to his social network accounts. I wasn't really wrong, but I wasn't right either. I've read every single work published under the name of Brandon Sanderson, and through his books, I always picture him as an extremely rational individual. I must preface this by making something very clear, Sanderson is my all time favourite author, alongside Terry Pratchet.
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