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Originally Posted by KSig RC
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).
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I wasn't getting at much. Basically I agree with you. I just thought it was worth noting that South Park can make religions look even sillier than they are. And yeah, I understand satire.
What the episode presented also lines up with what I know about Mormonism, as little as it is, and the musical chorus of dum, dum, dum, dum, dum works better the more authentic the presentation is.
And yet, the goofy seeming history probably doesn't inform much of a current Mormon's faith anyway, which I think is part of your point about Romney, but not so much a point of South Park's general attitude toward religions.
Hasn't Romney kind of made the point that it's the faith that he grew up with, maybe as a way to suggest what you are saying, "yep, I'm Mormon but it's something I might have taken for granted rather than embraced intellectually as an adult?"
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