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I have to see that musical. The family religion I grew up in was in fact Mormon and I hear "The Book of Mormon" musical is even funnier if you grew up in the church. What's funny is they had a church building named the Southpark Ward and they changed it's name due to being the same name as the show. LOL!
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I still haven't seen the musical, but I know the "Joseph Smith" episode of South Park presented the Mormon doctrine in a way that was pretty much faithful to the way Joseph Smith told the story. From my understanding, Trey Parker grew up in a Mormon family, so he knew the doctrine. Though I was never in the church myself, I'm familiar enough with LDS theology to know the South Park guys are presenting it accurately enough, even if they're ultimately laughing at it.Eat Us And Smile
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Trey Parker had friends who were Mormon but was never in the church himself. The Joseph Smith episode generalizes some of the stories surrounding Smith but uses a lot of license and is inacurate in some of the story telling and time lines.
I haven't gone to church in years but I have noticed the church is already changing the doctrine I grew up with. I was always told black people were cursed with dark skin and that is why they had been mistreated. Kind of like bad karma due to something those people did in a previous life. Basically we weren't supposed to worry about them and God would sort it out later. Now I notice the church is completely denying it ever taught such things but if you look up the original teachings of Brigham Young it's there.
They either have to cut all the old doctrine loose and become a mainstream Christian church or hold to the old program and take the criticism. They are trying to have the old control but yet be modern and it ain't going to work. If anything, it gives the rest of the world something to laugh at. The Mormon church has become even a bigger joke because of the stupid people running it. Yeah. Dum dum dum. LOL!No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Oh the church was full of it in the 1970's. They would tell us kids we were the chosen generation and we came to earth for these special times. Then they said the Soviet Union would eventually fall and when it did, people would be desperately lining up to be baptized into the church. Ok. In the 70's it seemed a long way off that the Soviet Union ever would fall but it did, and nobody was lining up to join the church. The church sent missionaries but they didn't baptize masses. In fact, the Russian orthodox church wanted the Mormons booted out of Russia for using their records to baptize their dead. The dead dunking is not winning any popularity contests world wide. The church is no longer growing due to missionary work and it probably will start to shrink from this point on. I think it's hit the high water mark.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I don't know much about the Mormon church, but I was always intrigued by the notion of super underwear. I remember reading about their magical garment and thinking " My god, they have super undies! "
When I went to college, there was a young Mormon violinist who was pretty cool. Not only did she confirm that they did indeed have super undies, but also that her mother referred to them as " Jesus Jammies "
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I can remember my dad wore these hideous one piece under garments with weird stitching in them. But hell the man wore jump suits too so I figured it was an old school thing. I later learned it was a religious thing. What's funny is the church actually had to modernize the holy underwear and make them two piece because the younger members were refusing to wear the one piece ones. My mom said they used to go to the ankles and had ties instead of elastic. So the design has changed over the years. It's only a matter of time before they have speedos and panites with masonic markings on them.
Apparently this magical underwear is supposed to protect you but I have yet to see it protect anyone. Interesting enough the only place you can buy the underwear from is the church and they have it made in sweat shops in the Phliippines. So they claim 13 million members. About 40% of that number even bother to go to church. So you have an active membership of around five million. Then about 25% of that go to the temple. So you are selling underwear to a little over a million people and they only can wear your underwear. Not a bad little profit stream; especially, with cutting the costs due to outsourcing.
I remember walking across the street from St. Peter's square in Rome and all the shops were selling Catholic paraphernalia. I bought some cool silver coins with the pope on them for the hell of it. If you go to Salt Lake City in the basement of the Joseph Smith building is where they sell all the Mormon paraphernalia. If you want that nice leather bound triple combination so you don't look like a peon at church, this is where you score one. Oh yeah, the church makes those too and it's going to cost you some big bucks. Then you need to buy a fancy leather cover for it.
If you go to Jerusalem they get everyone. The muslims are selling their shit. The jews are selling their shit. The chrisitans are selling their shit. It's all quite the scene.Last edited by Nitro Express; 03-12-2012, 02:07 PM.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Now, that's far out...
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I'm still dumbfounded over this...
Prospect Street is not exactly... jeez, how do I put it... the safest area in Trenton, a city where even the safe areas are never really safe.
These Van Halen brothers are proving to be very bizarre... I mean, how did they find this place? It's not exactly like it's close to Philly and they stumbled upon it while they were looking for a service to attend. I applaud that Al is keeping God in Ed's life... but still, Prospect Street??? I just don't get it... weird! You'd be more likely to bump into Catfish looking for a new girlfriend than the Van Halen brothers over there.Comment
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