Republican Politics of Projection

Heard someone with dirty pants was screaming outside the plate glass window last week. It was said it was "much ado about nothing". Just some guy yelling at the people who were eating fish on Friday and mumbling something about Dave.

 

Is there something wrong with a play being an attack on religion?

 

It depends on which religion is being "attacked". If it's your own religion then yeah, that'll be upsetting...but if it's some other religion that is obvious wrong anyway, it might be entertaining.

But the real question is: What's wrong with the South Park creaters being a part of it?!

...Please tell me Coin's dementia about television isn't contageous! ...I mean yeah, he probably had a bad experience selling his "ultra-special" script...I'm guessing people made sure Coin got the point by using his script for toilet paper...but you Andy, I thought you were someone who had broader interests!

 

I can understand why they're not crazy about South Park. South Park isn't designed to make them feel good and righteous and it doesn't tell them what they are supposed to be thinking and saying on any given day. In their world there is no purpose for such a program. They no doubt see those who create it as at best misguided, and at worst Communist/Socialist/Muslim/Radical Christian/Fascist/ coddlers of terrorists.

 

Funny the things you think you know Andy. The Book of Mormon was not, I repeat not, an attack on a religion. You wouldn't know this of course because you've never seen the play, you just make another assumption. Assumptions are probably the entire basis of your decision making process. Like I said Andy, you're not bright and it shows.

 

"The musical satirizes organized religion and the literal credibility of the LDS Church. The central theme that its' religious stories are rigid, out of touch, and silly comes to the conclusion that, essentially, religion itself can do enormous good as long as it is taken metaphorically and not literally".

Religon, any religon is based upon faith that the stories within it are true. If someone writes a play that basically says your stories are stupid but if you look at them as not being real then maybe you can get something positive out of it then you are attacking that religion and comparing that religon's bible to Grims Tales or Aesop's Fables. As for your name calling, like the Nazi's you are one of those socialist that seems to like to belittle those you are inferior to inorder to feel as if you are the master race or in your case a member of the master party. If that makes you get through your delusional day happy, then perhaps I should just ignore you and leave you in your own world for quite frankly I really have been bored by you for quite a while and see no point wasting any more of my time with a pretender such as yourself.

 

I still have to say this Andy, with no disrespect intended, that the mocking of a particular religion... or anything really... is typically only extremely objectionable to people of the faith being mocked... but other faiths may (or may not) find it entertaining.

Now, it's true that I have little interest in religions... and openly mock them from time to time... the origins of religions like the Morman faith and Scientology are particularily ripe for the mocking...maybe not so much by other religions, but by those who are aware of their origins.

The South Park creator's perspective is an example of that mocking as entertainment...at least the stuff on TV that I've seen (I don't know jack about the play), and should be viewed as just that: entertainment.

BUT, with a mormon presumptive candidate running for President, that entertainment is now also in the realm of political satire as well. And all's fair in love, war, and now politics apparently.

Honestly, I don't see why this is an issue, except for religious people. And yes, religious people are people too, but we also can't censor everything in America that someone finds offensive, now can we? That means they get to put on the play and you get to object to it... and I guess ...I get ....to ......write .........this?

So, I guess the systems of free expression and free speech are working lol

Sorry you have to tolerate the play's presence Andy, but I doubt you'd want it any other way either. We all find things offensive, for me you could say religion, for you you could say mocking of religion...but as long as we don't allow ourselves to become too offended we can all get along relatively well.

 

I like what you have to say, Andy. No, strike that. I REALLY like what you have to say!

 

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