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All in all the episode was great and dead-on. A few details were blurred over but must admit, the basis of the faith made the comedy write itself.
I am in a Mormon family and related much to the episode. I watched with my Mom who chuckled here and there, and at the end of the show she admitted, that it would look odd from an outsider.
But as a once insider, it did nail it. But again tame. I guess Trey and Matt figured they hurt enough feelings with Orgazmo, but seriously, with so much material to work with (In my opinion more interesting and politically driven then Scienetology) I am very curious and why so tame?
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Kyle,Stan, Kenny/Mysterion.
Fave ep: ESM Season 12,Sec fave: Butterballs Season 16
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I must say however that this episode makes fun of us Mormons just like how one would make fun of anything else. They get the main facts down so that it doesn't lie about it, but they leave out little important details that fill in the holes so that I makes sense. Yes the main points are accurate, but everything else is out of proportion.
All I'm saying is not to take this as what really happened and actually look into it so you get the real picture. One example is when Mrs. Harris took the pages, she didn’t hide them. They were stolen from her by people who wanted to destroy Joseph Smith. They changed the words so that when Joseph Smith retranslated it, it would have looked like he made it up; so history tells us that he received a revelation to just keep moving on in the translation.
Also he didn’t read out of a hat. He hid them in a hat for a time but when he read them it has at a table with a curtain in-between him and Martin Harris because the plates were sacred. There were also 8 people who did see the plates and testified of them.
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I think this episode is marvelous. I am not a Mormon, but I have known some Mormons, and have found them to be pretty much the nicest people I have ever met. I am fascinated by how such intelligent, sincere people can believe in such a very strange religion. Then again, I'm sure many people find all religion to be strange...
It's clear that Trey is kind of fascinated by Mormons, too: this episode, Oragazmo, the Mormons in Do the Handicapped Go to Hell, and supposedly a new musical about Mormons in the works. I don't blame him for being fascinated; I am too. This episode got me reading about it, and although I don't believe it one bit, I find it to be a remarkable history. Way to go, South Park creators! Shows how thoughtful this show can be...
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the real story can be found at:
http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/bas ... the-gospel
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Jeffh wrote:the entire episode was inacurate. It's kind of sad when people actually believe what they hear on a TV show like south park.
the real story can be found at:
http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/bas ... the-gospel
Hmm, actually, its a pretty accurate history account of the Mormon religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism
While I agree Southpark isn't the sort of program you'd take serious when it comes to subjects like these, as they are usually just satire and exaggerated, they still give an accurate account of how the religion was formed, even though its criticising the religion at the same time.
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you know your in trouble when something is really that dumb!
i recently have been around a bunch of Mormons and even (gulp) dated one for a short time... they are a good bunch of people but i just could never understand why they had to believe in such nonsense... other than the Joseph Smith parts it seems like the book of Mormon is based on universal truths... which of course u dont have to be Mormon to believe or understand... so yeah i didnt join... duh
p.s. i wish all LDS kids had as much sense as the kid did when he told off Stan at the end! Brilliant!!!
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I used to be friends with a Mormon years ago and so I researched into the religion (I've researched a lot of religions over the years). I find it amazing how tame it was because they really had a lot of material to work with, such as their beliefs. They're trained to come off as Christians at first (kind of like sounding like a name brand) and then things are revealed the deeper you go into the religion. They believe there are uncountable number of gods all over the universe all watching over little worlds. The gods (former Mormons) have wives who have spirit babies, and the Mormon families have lots of kids in order to bring down the spirit babies from heaven. Any Mormon can become a god or goddess, but if you're a woman watch out: you're in for eternally giving birth to spirit babies. You have to do a lot, and live a very good life to become a god. Polygamy is ok in their writings. They have prophets today that whatever they speak is the voice of god and is comparable to the Book of Mormon, which is a symptom of a cult.
Oh what else can I remember? There's a lot of racism in the books (there's more writings than just the Book of Mormon) and the darker the skin the deeper the sin, so african americans are looked down on in the religion. You probably noticed a bit of racism in the whole Native Americans were originally white bit. Let's see, they are commanded to wear long underwear at all times to protect them from sin. They have their own planet/world called Kolob where the gods and goddesses rule. I confronted my Mormon friend about all this, and he was embarressed but said these basics were true. A few people in my class were angry he hid this. Still a nice guy though, I was still friends with him. I've read stories though of people getting out of the religion in other parts of America, and they feel that deeper in the religion they were brainwashed and they feel it is a cult.
Not a joke. Just google it instead of questioning it, it's all out there. So yeah, I'm amazed South Park didn't go into that. Maybe they didn't research that far into it? Anyways it was a good episode
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