Ha, you realize that you sound as if you've never read the book, right?
Bean didn't have a religion, and if he did, it would've probably been Catholicism, since Sister Carlotta was a mother to him when he was young, and although he didn't care about it then, he eventually appreciated what she did for him when he got older.
On a side-note, although Orson is Mormon, I rarely saw him try to slide his religion into his books. All I saw was that Ender's mother was Mormon. However, in Speaker for the Dead, the book is heavy with Catholic characters.
Just because Orson is Mormon, don't mean he automatically puts his religion in le books. He's an author, not an evangelist. Some can do both at the same time, but he aint seemin to be doin that, he's just a good author from what I can tell.
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Correct, Bean DOESN'T have a stated religion but the fact that he felt COMPELLED to have kids and save even the fertilized eggs that were not to be born are easily pointed out to be mormon characteristics (or extremly Conservative Christian).
While orsons characters are generally catholic it doesn't mean that their primairy value system isn't mormon based. Heck the entire thing with (forget her name... she goes into the enders sister clone) and the OCD people has some fairly heavy mormon aspects to it. If you notice most of the women in the series are subservant to their husbands heck for the piggy's the women become blind as bats and even dumber and MULTIPUL females live with one male....