Ender's Game: A Catholic Take on Moral Reasoning
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<p>Ender's Game asks one of the hardest questions in all of science fiction: what are we allowed to do to a child, if the stakes are high enough? Orson Scott Card's novel is a masterpiece of moral pressure. The adults in Ender's world are not monsters — they're desperate, and they believe they're right, and that makes everything worse. In this episode, Tyler and Sadie Woodley sit with the novel's most difficult themes: sacrifice, honor, accountability, and the question of whether moral truth bends under sufficient weight. (It doesn't. But the novel is very good at making you feel like it might.) They also bring their own experience as parents into the conversation — because it turns out that raising children, even in considerably less dramatic circumstances than interstellar war, clarifies a great deal about what we owe the small people in our care. This is the second book in the Protoevangelium Collection's journey. The questions get harder from here.</p> <p>The Great Catholic Book Club is an online community for people who want to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ through good literature and art, read through the lens of the Catholic faith. We believe that beauty is a path to God, and that "the glory of God is man fully alive." 🌐 greatcatholicbookclub.com 📚 The Protoevangelium Collection: greatcatholicbookclub.com/books ✝️ Join the Club: greatcatholicbookclub.com/join Gloria in excelsis Deo.</p>
