well they some stupid beliefs same as any other religion
llke christians believing in a a virgin birth
like moslins thinking when they die they will have virgins waiting for them
like jews thinking they are the chosen ones
they all are good subjects for satire and ridicule lets have more of it
Good post, the more we can mock religion out in the open, without hypersensitive people freaking out, the better it is for society.
I think de-sensitizing society is for the better, on all subjects.
Mormonism isn't any crazier than the more mainstream religions, it's just younger. When something has been crazy for 2000+ years, compared to another one only being crazy for 150+ years, humanity hasn't had enough time to become numb to it yet.
Being able to live inside a whale, your soul coming back in the form of giraffe or something, dozens of virgins waiting for you in Utopia etc, all these things become "uncrazy" with time.
Because, of course, being a dick about someone's beliefs is the best way to create a constructive dialogue.
There is a difference betweem criticism and parody, which are fine, and going out of your way to be a smarmy psuedo-intellctual jackass, which seems to be the method of choice for you more outspoken atheist types.
That's fair, but often times I'm labeled a "smarmy pseudo-intellectual jackass" by the bible-thumping types for simply pointing out certain passages. The ones that talk about living inside a whale, or how rape victims should marry the rapist, etc. I'm just the messenger, be angry with the person who wrote that jibberish, not me.
I more like the idea of mocking the books religious people base their lives on, like the south park people are with mormonism. I don't attack believers, the people I look up to the most are believers (my dad/Ron Paul/MLK Jr etc).