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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I'm in no danger of converting, and yet, A) can we really rely on South Park for our presentation of a faith* and B) isn't the moral you've outlined essentially the lesson of multiculturalism to some degree?
(I LOVE South Park, but if you relied on it for its take on all religions, you'd think there was a secret code of Vatican law that promotes pedophilia, right?)
If a person has been raised in a faith, rather than converted as an adult, I don't think you can conclude, as you touch on above, that they've thought about and taken to heart every aspect, especially historical ones, that the religion has ever espoused.
ETA:* I don't mean to seem like I'm so black/white literal minded. I know you aren't suggesting South Park for religious instruction, but while Mormonism may be an easier target that some other religions, South Park can make anything look dum, dum, dum, dum, dum.
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I have no idea what you're getting at here - as far as I know, everything in the Mormonism episode is completely and 100% factually presented, although with an obvious bias that serves to wonderfully prove their later point by inverting it. It's a literary technique - the episode was meant as a touchstone, not an exhortation to learn shit from South Park.
I'm not concluding anything from the reference, just pointing out that "faith" relies on fancy to some degree, and that some Mormons might be more open to acknowledge it than Romney has been painted in this thread (and that the danger of fanciful beliefs is in the execution, not the belief itself).