Face in Hat Aaron Brewster and Eric Jepson

“Bioshock Infinite can make you feel uncomfortable.” - Kevin VanOrd.  So will 2020.  We talk about civic religion in the video game Bioshock Infinite and how it relates to the apotheosis of Christopher Columbus and racism in the church. We end with a discussion of the current nationwide protests and affirm that #BlackLivesMatter.
We thank @BenjaminEPark for two twitter threads that inspired this episode and we cite him extensively.  See https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1164696231634976768 and https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1267489043840827392.
 
Bioshock infinite trailer: https://youtu.be/EsJ55BzIvkE
Bioshock infinite review by Kevin VanOrd review from GameSpot: https://youtu.be/jSA9AsdBh00
The Apotheosis of Washington vs. Bioshock Infinite’s Garden of New Eden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington
https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Garden_of_New_Eden (see the Entryway to Eden)
 
Benjamin Park’s thread
https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1164696231634976768
Land of Promise in The Book of Mormon, by Tyler Livingston (note, on the show I said Orson Hyde added the footnote to 1 Ne 13:12, but it was Orson Pratt)
https://www.fairmormon.org/blog/2010/09/16/land-of-promise-in-the-book-of-mormon
Christopher Coloumbus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
Visit of eminent spirits to Wilford Woodruff (include Ezra Taft Benson quote)
https://josephsmithfoundation.org/wiki/eminent-spirits-appear-to-wilford-woodruff
References for Book of Mormon commentary by George Reynolds
https://gospeldoctrine.com/book-mormon/1-nephi/1-nephi-13
George Reynolds: Loyal Friend of the Book of Mormon, by Bruce A. Van Orden
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1986/08/george-reynolds-loyal-friend-of-the-book-of-mormon
Columbian Exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
Americapox: The Missing Plague, by CGP Grey
https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/americapox
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond Ph.D.
https://amzn.to/36YaHLB
Protests thread by Benjamin Park
https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1267489043840827392
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and Wm. Robert Wright
https://amzn.to/36S59Ch
Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War Paperback, by Nathaniel Philbrick
https://amzn.to/3dnDsE0
The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1, by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming
https://amzn.to/2Mmetow
The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories, by Don Bradley
https://amzn.to/36QFBpa
Racism in the Church:
https://twitter.com/TaranTrinnaman/status/1267837998751776771 
Melodie’s request:
https://twitter.com/Kid_melodie/status/1267209095028891654

We love the Fall. Adam, Eve, fruit, the whole thing.  Today we talk about the LDS perspective on the Fall, including what LDS scriptures bring to understanding this monumental event. Nifty poetry too!
A Harmony of the Creation Accounts, from the Pearl of Great Price Student Manual
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-pearl-of-great-price-student-manual-2018/a-harmony-of-the-creation-accounts?lang=eng
The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture, by Terryl Givens
https://amzn.com/dp/B07WNK63SY
Aaron’s concordance between Genesis 3 and Moses 4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PsZXaUJ_hAbsGzhS0vC5s-UP4A94pf0V8oGci4ZSXQM/edit?usp=sharing
Adam and Eve (LDS movement, wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve_(Latter_Day_Saint_movement)
Gospel topic: Fall of Adam and Eve
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/fall-of-adam-and-eve
The Fulness of the Gospel: The Fall of Adam and Eve, Ensign June 2006
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/06/the-fulness-of-the-gospel-the-fall-of-adam-and-eve
Gospel Classics: Adam’s Role in Bringing Us Mortality, by President Joseph Fielding Smith
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/01/adams-role-in-bringing-us-mortality
Perelandra, once again cited!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perelandra
The Redemption of Eve, by Jolene Edmunds Rockwood
http://www.mormonmonastery.org/PDF/TheRedemptionofEve.pdf
Moses 5:11
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.11#11
“UTopia” by Laura Nielson Baxter, collected in “Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets”
https://amzn.to/2xJs6dY 
What Was Left of the Stars, by Claire Åkebrand
http://amzn.to/2wL1x5r
Eric’s comments on Claire Åkebrand’s poem, “‘First Actors”, from the above collection
https://motleyvision.org/2017/09/05/claire-akebrands-what-was-left-of-the-stars/#more-12058
Witchy Eye, by D. J. Butler
https://amzn.to/3cGwLMy

We take a break from our LDS miscellany to discuss the current pandemic using the recent conference as a backdrop. Please note the upcoming world-wide fast on Good Friday.
“We will conquer the coronavirus, apostle Holland says”
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/04/05/latest-sundays-lds/
April 2020 World Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqT1bPmYb8
Mosiah 4:16-19
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.16-19#16
Crowd-fight COVID-19: an initiative from the scientific community to put all available resources at the service of the fight against COVID-19:
https://crowdfightcovid19.org/
President Nelson Invites World to Participate in Fast on Good Friday
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-nelson-invites-world-to-participate-in-fast-on-good-friday

Spoilers ahead!  We welcome David, a fellow Berkeley Wardian, as guest to the show today to talk about the final episode of the Good Place and its parallels with LDS views on redemption and exaltation
The Good Place
https://www.nbc.com/the-good-place
Sacred time vs. profine time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return_(Eliade)
The Seven Deadly Heresies, by Bruce R. McConkie
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/seven-deadly-heresies/
Fair mormon question
https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Do_Mormons_believe_that_there_is_there_progression_between_the_three_degrees_of_glory%3F
Eternal Misfit, by Roger Terry
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V43_N03_188.pdf
Gospel Principles, Exaltation (includes President Joseph Fielding Smith quote)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-47-exaltation
Apotheosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
Michael Schur: “As long as you’re trying, you’re on the right path.”
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-good-places-moral-message-changed-as-much-as-the-ch-1837096810
Stormlight archive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive
No exit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought, by X.J. Kennedy
https://www.poemtree.com/poems/NothingInHeavenFunctions.htm

He was lookin’ for a podcast to steal. He was in a bind, ‘cause he was way behind, but we wouldn’t accept him as a sponsor for this episode, so neener neener.
Here’s some references!
Gospel topics article
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/satan
Wiki!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
Recency bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
LDS General Conference Corpus
https://www.lds-general-conference.org/
Huckabee Is Not Alone in Ignorance on Mormonism, by Laurie Goodstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/us/politics/14mormon.html
Twitter thread from Eric
https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1217670280069279744
Michael Ballam 4 lyfe!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ballam
BD: devil
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/devil
The Screwtape Letters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters
There must needs be opposition in all things
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.p11#p11
Perelandra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perelandra
The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the la Sals, by Steven L. Peck
https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-King-Leere-Goatherd-Sals/dp/1948218011
1 Corinthians 10:13
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/1-cor/10.p13?lang=eng#p13

Doubt and skepticism is a recurring theme on Face in Hat. Today we look at President Uchtdorf’s 2013 talk, “Come, Join with Us”, which includes the now famous phrase “doubt your doubts.”  What does this mean and how do different people in the church interpret it?
“Come, Join with Us”, by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Oct 2013 General Conference session
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2013/10/come-join-with-us
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, by Jana Reese
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190885203
The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith, by Tera and Fiona Gibbons
https://amzn.to/35Tt1DD
Jane & Emma
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8581198/
https://amzn.to/30pN2jM
My Testimony is My Life, by The Star-Eater
https://www.arch-hive.net/post/my-testimony-is-my-life
2nd Isaiah and the Book of Mormon
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1984/10/i-have-a-question/how-do-we-explain-material-from-isaiah-in-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng
A very little bit on doubt, by Eric Jepson
https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/09/very-little-bit-on-doubt-svithe.html
When Doubts and Questions Arise, by Adam Kotter
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2015/03/when-doubts-and-questions-arise
(cited scriptures)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/morm/9.27
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/6.36