Evangelicals Don’t Like Mormons
So, we’re pretty sure that this video is being disseminated to warn against Mormonism, but it actually makes it sound cool and New Age-y! According to the (scary-voiced) narrator, Mormonism is sort of like Greek mythology, Battlestar Gallactica and Superman all rolled into one with epic battles, space aliens, celestial polygamous sex orgies and weird guys from upstate New York all rolled into one.
Hmm…actually, this DOES make Mormonism sound kinda cool…in a Comic Con sort of way. As if organized religion- ANY religion- doesn’t already depend on a crapload of weird @#!& and fantastic stories right out of an acid-fueled flashback.
I don’t begrudge the Fundies their right to their no-holds-barred, kill-‘em-all-let-God-sort-‘em-out belief system. What I find endlessly humorous is their willingness to skewer another no-holds-barred, kill-‘em-all-let-God-sort-‘em-out belief system simply because it doesn’t match the imaginary reality they’ve managed to convinced themselves is Inviolable Truth. Yeah, I’m right, you’re wrong…and therefore, you’re in the express lane to Hell. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Here’s my issue will this whole thing, though; if the best argument that you can come up with requires comic-book-like animation in order to make your point, do you really have anything to sell? Aren’t you really demanding that the viewer trade one fantasy for another? And do you really not see just how (&^%$#@ stupid your narrow intolerance is?
It’s sad to see what these troglodytes are doing to a perfectly good religion. I may have slept through most of the Sunday School classes that I was subjected to as a child, but even I could tell you that what the Fundies are selling has more to do with fear, ignorance, and control than it could EVER have to do with Christianity. Not that Mormonism isn’t “out there”, mind you, but the Fundies have far bigger problems in their own house. Then again, it IS easier to burn down someone else’s house than to tend to the problems in your own.
In the meantime, wouldn’t it be fun to see Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney debate who has the better imaginary friend? I’d bet we could find someone from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to play moderator. We could have CNN broadcast it in one of their “YouTube debate” formats?
Anyone out there know someone at CNN??
