Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing how funny Book of Mormons is. I’m not a Mormon and am not particularly a fan of Mormonism, but I do wonder why it’s ok to have a musical that mocks a religion. Swap out Mormonism for Judaism or Catholicism and tell me if it works. Or am I misunderstanding what the show is about? I’m curious to hear from people who have seen it.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, so what? There is no historical evidence that can prove the existence of god or that all these beliefs that religious adherents have are from god. Personally, I think made them up! Look at the council of Nicea and all the debates about all the religious doctrines that were had by men and decided upon by a vote or by rule of a crazy Roman emperor. Just because it’s clear that Jesus and Paul actually existed doesn’t mean that Jesus was divine or that God told Paul why to write in the epistles.

Second, I believe that the reason we know so much of Joseph Smith’s crazy history is because we actually have a history of it. How many first hand accounts by those who opposed Moses do we have today?

Third, there isn’t a lot of historical evidence for what happened in the Bible, not even 40-year wandering in the wilderness.

This is what happens when you do some research and stop believing in the weird faith you were born into. You realize that the rabbit hole goes all the way down. Most of my friends have left the church after learning about odd details of our religion. But their inquiry into religion didn’t stop with Joseph smith.

DP. There’s a massive difference between recording the myths and stories that have descended through millennia and totally making sht up. The stories in the Bible were old when they went in.

Joseph Smith started his cult to make money and get power. I’m sorry, but the idea of the buried golden plates and the lost tribe of Israel and seer stone in the bottom of a hat… it’s silly.

Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing how funny Book of Mormons is. I’m not a Mormon and am not particularly a fan of Mormonism, but I do wonder why it’s ok to have a musical that mocks a religion. Swap out Mormonism for Judaism or Catholicism and tell me if it works. Or am I misunderstanding what the show is about? I’m curious to hear from people who have seen it.

Anonymous wrote:The “Book of Mormon” is a hate-play.

If you are intellectually honest, you have to agree.

Anonymous wrote:You raise a decent point.

Like many things, I highly doubt that play would have been made in today's environment.

Sister Act though, I think is a bit different. It makes light of Catholicism for sure, but the entire premise of the movie is not to mock it. For Book of Mormon, it is.

Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing how funny Book of Mormons is. I’m not a Mormon and am not particularly a fan of Mormonism, but I do wonder why it’s ok to have a musical that mocks a religion. Swap out Mormonism for Judaism or Catholicism and tell me if it works. Or am I misunderstanding what the show is about? I’m curious to hear from people who have seen it.

Anonymous wrote:Mormonism deserves to be mocked, as does any religion that subjugates women and has a long history of truly disgusting racial discrimination, among other things.

The Catholic church literally covers up the horrific abuse of children. You're worried about offending them? Screw them.