Posted on 06/25/2011 10:48:16 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
The creators of the play Book of Mormon have created the Amos and Andy for the South Park set. We may laugh, but our grandchildren will shudder as decent folk do at “wits” of the last century whose favorite dance was to “jump Jim Crow.”
The parts of the Book of Mormon I have seen are as innovative as a Newsies revival and as funny as the cruel, tasteless jokes told by an inebriated coworker at a Christmas party. The difference is that the coworker might sober up in the morning, but the mindless mockery that also gave us South Park will continue.
After all, the theater establishment toasted the two with Tony’s and the insiders would never cheapen themselves by rewarding a play for picking on a minority religion loathed in the theater community or behave like decadent Romans horrified by a growing moral minority comforting the libertines by mocking the moral.
I cannot know for sure without seeing the entire play. If we assume the play a brilliant satire with PR unfortunate enough to release only the cruel and facile bits, then we are still left with two unfortunate truths about this play. First, the writers are cowards. They inflict pain and mockery on those already despised while going soft on the tired assumptions of their rich and powerful patrons. Second, in a pluralistic society they have targeted a group already misunderstood and discriminated against.
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The answer to your question is yes.
Another simple question:
Do you think that folks with little knowledge of MORMONism would be helped or hindered by what we post in these threads?
The Shakers had, shall we say, strange beliefs about SEX that the MORMON taught bunch don't.
Ann Lee soon assumed leadership of the small Shaker community, after joining in 1758.
The loss of four children in infancy created great trauma for “Mother Ann,” as her followers later called her. She claimed numerous revelations regarding the fall of Adam and Eve and its relationship to sexual intercourse.
She had become the “Mother of the new creation,” who called her followers to confess their sins, give up all their worldly goods, and take up the cross of celibacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
Oh dear don’t befriend the Mormons for it brings out the rage in the anti’s
These folks have no clue how to live with others they deem in their own minds they are right.
They dismiss the scriptures to Love One Another,
or anything that does not support their fixations.
The Shakers had, shall we say, strange beliefs about SEX that the MORMON taught bunch don’t.
Yes the Mormons have their beliefs that will make them unfashionable. Modern society doesn’t need polygamy. It would go pretty well against them that they ever had the primitive mind to try it.
Today, even having children through an affair with a mistress is preferrable to actually bothering with plural wives. Take a look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, or John Edwards, for example. People leave the Mormon Church, as far as I am concerned, but do you bother looking up that fact? Someone feels that the church won’t marry him/her because he/she is homosexual, someone doesn’t feel the church is modern enough, embraces said beliefs enough, and so on. There’s plenty of ways in which the Mormon Church is unfashionable in very much a similar way to the Shakers, no, not claiming celibacy, but in other ways.
My best conclusion on this thread is that you somehow dislike the idea that they can decline and disappear without you, yet that’s how it is.
That statement is just delusional.
They dismiss the scriptures to Love One Another, or anything that does not support their fixations.
Glad to know that, I guess the part about mormonISM calling Christians whores of Babylon doesn't fall into that category. Glad to know,
Do you think that folks with little knowledge of MORMONism would be helped or hindered by what we post in these threads?
Hindered, because they could care less.
HA ha HA!
You have REALLY sawn off the limb THIS time!
The Book of MORMON:THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
The BIBLE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
HUH?
“I think they can be converted to the truth. Do you agree?”
With God, all things are possible.
That said, unless their eyes are opened to the falsehood of mormonISM, they are inoculated against truth.
HUH? place marker
Somehow I get the feeling that you are ignoring MORMON writings that have been posted; favoring instead a referendum on MY posting rationale.
Consider the source...
“They dismiss the scriptures to Love One Another,
or anything that does not support their fixations.”
Oh contraire, dear Restornu...
We wholeheartedly embrace loving each other. It would not be loving to not speak out to save someone like you that we care about from spending eternity in hell.
Confronting the heresy you are entrapped by is loving.
ampu
And yet, YOU seem to care a LOT!
(BTW; how do YOU 'know' what these unknown people care about?)
And, if they DON'T care (as you state) then why would they not be HELPED instead?
give it a a rest you can try to call it what you want but all of the anti’s pass behavior speak loud and clear!
“Christians—those poor, miserable priests brother Brigham was speaking about—some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth, and at the same time preaching righteousness to the children of men. The poor devils, they could not get up here and preach an oral discourse, to save themselves from hell; they are preaching their fathers’ sermons —preaching sermons that were written a hundred years before they were born. ...You may get a Methodist priest to pour water on you, or sprinkle it on you, and baptize you face foremost, or lay you down the other way, and whatever mode you please, and you will be damned with your priest. - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 5, p. 89
“What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast.” - Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, v. 13, p. 225
“Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon’ whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent.” - Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255
“you can try to call it what you want but all of the anti’s pass behavior speak loud and clear!”
Yes they do. Here is what they say loud and clear:
1. The Bible is the Word of God
2. Mormonism perverts every part of the Bible
3. Mormonism perverts the Gospel of Jesus Christ
4. Mormonism perverts the nature of God
5. Mormonism enslaves good people as much as the Watch Tower - both cults
6. Christ offers salvation to all of us - even people trapped in cults - even you Resty
7. Salvation by grace through faith involves letting go of the cult.
I call it Amazing Grace! OK, I wasn’t the first. But it is loud and clear.
ampu
The antis think they are but they don’t like decibels of the Lord Jesus Christ
...they act more like jackals
I agree, just look at the statements of jackals in post #217.
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