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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I don't know that it makes you a bigot to declare that the story is way out there - I mean, Joseph Smith was a noted huckster who apparently made intimations that he wanted to start a religion to make money years before his "revelation" . . . besides this, the Mormon Church has a history of institutional racism, from blacks being unable to join or become priests until the mid-80s and onward, and so on and so on. I mean.
Still, have you seen the South Park episode that deals with Mormonism? It's quite brilliant - the moral is essentially "we know it's kind of silly but it doesn't matter - it works for us, and we have a good life and love each other, so why does it matter how silly or whatever it might be?"
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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.