Thank you very much! I'm glad you could see that this was a Fallout article, not a religion article, and that my purpose was to promote a wider appreciation for Obsidian and Fallout, not my religion. I'm glad you liked it.

Thank you very much for your comments and for taking the time to read the actual article rather than just reacting to the headline like a lot of people here seemed to do. I thought there was a lot of really cool stuff in the Fallout universe lore that I wasn't aware of which is why I wrote the article. I'm glad you…

I didn't see your prior comment (after an initial run through of the first 120 I decided to stick mostly to the replies to my comment here) so no need for an apology as I think you, like hopefully many others, were thrown by the inserted title. I didn't give them any specific instructions regarding the title but when…

Thank you for your comments and for taking the time to read and appreciate the article as it was intended. I'm glad there are at least a handful of people like you who were able to see past the somewhat misleading title and weren't thrown into a rage-fit by the mention of Mormons. I sincerely appreciate your support…

Thank you for your comment. I am playing through Fallout 3 for the fourth time, where I've only been through New Vegas about 1.5 times. However, I don't think I would like Fallout 3 nearly as much without the amazing PC mods that are available, most specifically the Fallout Wanderers Edition mod which completely…

Thank you very much for your kind words and for taking the time to read and understand the article. I have just been so impressed with the Fallout games and was amazed at what I had missed out on for so long by not knowing about them. I wanted to share that love and excitement with others to get them to give the…

I agree, but I can understand the editors' decision that they felt like it didn't convey what they really liked about the article, even if the new title was a bit misleading about the tone/purpose and much more provocative to those looking to fight about religion. I only wanted the article to be about religion in so…

That would have been an interesting direction to take. You should definitely check out some of the in-article links to the falloutwiki.com and read up on how much Mormons were going to feature in the original Black Isle Fallout 3/Van Buren: New Canaan was going to be a significant location with a number of quests…

Thank you. I did not want this to be an article about Mormonism at all (though I knew the discussion would turn that way to some degree) but wanted it to call attention to the careful and thoughtful work that Obsidian put into their game so that people would want to appreciate it afresh and maybe look a little deeper…

I appreciate that, and they made the case for their headline (which helped me understand the choice better) and did give me the option to change it to something else, but in the end I figured the time was past. I'm glad some people actually read the article for what was intended and have said some very nice things. …

Glad to hear it! I loved the story of New Vegas, and I liked the companions a lot better too. I think Boone's story was great, as was Cassidy's. But I've played Fallout 3 more because I just love the atmosphere of bombed out DC, and I love gunning down Super Mutants! But seriously, these two games are so amazing…

Thank you for taking the time to read it! I hope it was worthwhile.

Thank you for your comment and kind words. I love both Fallout 3 and New Vegas (and have played through a few hours of the original 1 & 2, but nowhere near completion - they are brutal!) and mostly wanted people to see the thought, care, and level of detail put into creating the Fallout universe and appreciate it…

Thank you very much for reading. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you sincerely for your kind words. I'm very pleased you read and liked the article and that you felt enlightened. I felt enlightened researching for it and finding out just how much Mormon stuff there is in the Fallout universe and how much of it is—from the perspective of a Mormon—very well researched, even…

I don't imagine anyone at Obsidian is Mormon and there may be an atheist or two among them, and that's part of my point: I was impressed that they didn't really have any vested interest in being nice or respectful to Mormonism but they were anyway. They took some time, did some homework, read their history, and…

Haha, that was kind of the point. I really didn't want to start a flame war but wanted people to go back and re-enjoy the Fallout games with some new insight into the great work that went into creating them, and to maybe look for things they hadn't seen before. Happy wandering!

Author here: Yes, Joshua Graham was a very bad guy for a long time. I didn't say I was "proud" of him, I said I thought it was neat to have a Mormon figure so prominently in one of the main Fallout factions. I look at Graham kind of the same way as Saul/Paul in the New Testament where he started out as a cold, bad…

Author here: Thanks for your kind words and for actually reading the article. I'm glad you liked it. The Starship Troopers reference isn't exactly anti-Mormon in the sense that lots of these Kotaku comments are, but it isn't exactly respectful or nice either in singling out Mormons for alien bug massacre. That's…

Author here: Thank you for reading it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I saw the flame-war coming a mile away - doesn't bother me.