So as part of my
new life/new leaf pledge after moving to the Nation's Capital (Well
okay Virginia, but DC is a half hour away) I promised myself to spend
more time on my writing and less time on things that stressed me out.
As part of this pledge, I promised I would write more blogs to
entertain the truly astounding number of people world wide who enjoy
reading my rants against all of the insanity and stupidity in the
world.
As I pondered what
to write about to launch this new endeavor, I looked at the many
things going on in the world today that strike me as stupid, crazy or
just down right WTF. The first that came to mind was the
Martin/Zimmerman situation, but there are more than enough people out
there ranting about it (Sharpton, Jackson, Rivera etc) that I felt no
need to butt in. Then I pondered the whole Coup/Not a Coup going on
in Egypt, but since I already did a rather good piece on that whole
debacle way back when the First Overthrow happened I really didn't
see the need for further speaking on the subject.
So, what talk about
for the relaunching of the SIOTBAA Society Flagship Blog? What could
I possibly find that could be crazy enough or maybe offensive enough
to set things off right? I was reading through the dozen or so news
feeds when an idea hit me. I hit it back and a merry battle ensued.
It has everything from Politics to Religion to Comedy. In short, it
is perfect. So here we go!
“ The Book of Mormon is a religious
satire musical
with book, lyrics, and music by Trey
Parker, Robert
Lopez, and Matt
Stone.[1]
Best known for creating the animated comedy South
Park, Parker and Stone co-created the music with Lopez, a
co-composer/co-lyricist of Avenue
Q. The show lampoons organized religion and traditional
musical theatre, reflecting the creators' lifelong fascination with
Mormonism and
musicals.” (Thank you Wikipedia)
The article I read
was a review scathing review of the Musical whose wording bordered on
Scatological. However, in the writer's defense, her differences with
the Musical were purely asthetic in nature so I had no problems with
her. (Well besides the normal problems I have with critics in
general. Those who can write, those who can't write teach writing
and those who can't teach become critics.) Nope the problem I had
was with one of the comments where a a poster with the rather
grandiose title of “GodsTrueOne” made the comment that the BOM
proved that Mormons were a bunch of crazy cultists with no real idea
of the “real” religion.
Now while reading I
did make a couple of assumptions about the poster. One that he is
some branch of Christianity OTHER than Mormon. Two that he is a
knuckle dragging Nimrod. I am pretty sure of the latter, but could
be wrong on the previous.
Why do I think this
man is a Nimrod? Why do I think he needs some serious reality checks
done? Why am I asking you these questions when you can't even answer
before I post the blog? These are all truly valid questions and I am
glad you asked them.
So let us ponder
for a second the fact that Christianity has had more splits than
Dairy Queen on a busy weekend. Church of Christ, Catholicism,
Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran and the list goes on and on and on. So
one has to ponder which “real religion” the poster was talking
about. I mean, how accurate can a religion be when it has Versions
of its Holy Book running around?
However, that is
not my real problem with this Poster's little rant. Nope my main
problem is that Mr. Nimrod is holding up a Musical Comedy/Parody
written by the same people who brought us the gem of Southpark as
“Proof” of his arguments. Does anyone else have a problem with
that?
I have seen
excerpts from BOM and found them insanely funny. With the limited
amount of information I have on Mormonism, the parts I recognized
were parodied to the point of tailspinning. It Is my understanding
that the creators has had a fascination with Mormonism for a very
long time and did weave elements of the religion into the musical,
but never meant for it to represent the religion itself. He meant
for it to entertain.
People who go to
see things like BOT are the same sort of people who went to see Jesus
Christ, Super Star back in the day and came away believing everyone
in the Bible sang Rock Opera. I see so much hate and vitriol spewed
out by people over things that they have made little if any effort to
actually understand and it bugs the hell out of me. People say,
“Well I saw on the Interwbez such and such is a goose stepping
reincarnation of Satan so it must be true,” 99% (and I am being
kind) of people out there don't bother to gather information and form
their own opinions about anything. That is the main thing that is
wrong with the world today.
So in closing, let
me state again what I have said many times in the past. It is okay
if you don't like someone or something. Hell, it is okay if you
actually hate them. If you despise Blond Haired Left Handed
Communist surfers from Redondo Beach, then despise them for good
reasons. Hate them because the Commie Surfing Bastards tore up your
favorite stuffed animal then peed on it. Don't hate them because
your Father's Cousin's College Roommate told his best friend that the
Commie Surfers sucked who then posted it on the Interwebz.
So to make a long
story short (TOO LATE!), do your own research, form your own opinions
and make your own decisions about everything. You may still be
wrong, but at least you won't be citing comedies as an accurate
source for information.
End of
Rant
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