How South Park DESTROYED Another Religion... 

We can take a joke our only issue was that it was on too early. And that got fixed

what chads, that actually shows confidence.

Mormons are based!

True...

And it also proves the point made by them: Say what you want about mormons, but for the most part, they really are a bunch of genuinely nice and thoughtful people.

Thats why they made fun of the story not the Mormons themselves. I think it's actually awesome.

honestly, after seeing the Scientology creation story, anything seems reasonable in comparison.

Hello, I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We prefer to call 🤙 ourselves Latter-day Saints (though some people do call us Mormons). This is a great South Park episode, but some of the details are wrong. 😅

@@jrr2480 guess It depends where you're from then cause I have a church later day saints in my town and one of my best friends was apart of it and they all call themselves Mormon.

@@jrr2480 little bit of ego tho to call yourselves saints just saying

Yeah, I've had some Mormons say some pretty terrible things to me, living in Utah myself. Which tbh has really jaded me against their kindness, I've actually started viewing it as kinda two faced tbh.

@@chaoticdetectivepeachit's love bombing

I think its like the gambit of christians. My family is conservative but theyre not gonna pitch a fit if someone dates outside their race or is gay. But i know other families that would. Ive known some of the nicest folks who are baptists and also some of the most judgemental jerks. Hell. I work with a guy whos christian and believes buddhists are closer to God because of the way a lot of them act. People are complicated, especially when you throw religion into the mix.

@@YashaVatrushka That's actually a really accurate description of it, they're huge on going door to door, and tryna force people into the church, and the only reason they can get away with it is cuz they're "nice" but tbh it's a manipulative tactic for the most part.

​​@@malekartorian3054yes because all conservatives are monolith who believe the exact same

From what I've understood it all religions are technically correct, right? Jesus IS the son of God, but they never make fun of the miracles. Moses, Muhammed, Buddha, and Shiva existed, too.

Buddhism is a philosophy and a religion but you can be a Buddhist philosophically and religiously believe in something else.

Honestly religion within South Park universe is the chadest possible option one could go for. EVERY SINGLE PROPHET EXISTS, and every single belief is real, none of them are better than any other, they all just have varying opinions and outlooks on life. It's strangely wholesome and beautiful for such a crass show

@@jansonshrock2859 what’s Zen Buddhism

​@@dimitrije018 yeah but to not go to hell u gotta be Mormon

Got literally any evidence for that?

@@ZeallustImmortal the book No Man Knows My History chronicles the various way Joseph and his stooges tried to recruit people to boost their numbers. This is also the same reason why they were one of the few places in a pre-civil war America that allowed black people (for a very limited time until violence was used by pro-slavery folks which lead to African Americans not being allowed to join until somewhere in the 70s/80s I can’t remember the years). A lot of people within early Mormonism would just do things thinking they were helping and counter intuitively nearly getting people killed, or leading to actual death in several cases.

​@@ZeallustImmortal as a gentrified native myself, I'd say I'm pretty sure they said it, with their actions, if not their words.

@@williamklemp3764 Were you there? If not, then you being native means nothing.

Amusing, considering theres nothing said nowadays about turning white, and there are alot of native Americans who are Lds.

As an inactive member of the LDS Church I can confirm the South Park story is pretty much spot on

Yeah pretty much spot on. Reworded to sound dumber than the mormons would want it to sound, I think the only inaccuracy I caught was that the plates weren't hidden in the hat, just the stones which translated the book from a distance I guess - but I could be misremembering things since it's been almost a decade since I left.

I mean, there are some subtle false points. But it's mostly semantics. Like the Book Of Mormon doesn't say Adam and Eve lived in Missouri, but Joseph Smith said they did. Little things like that.

Probably because it doesnt. Your friend probably never even bothered to read the book.

And assume this friend mention Harris didnt conspire with his wife to hide the 116 pages and while he left the church for a time, never denied what he saw.

What problem happened is matt and Trey went back to their parents and said they were making fun of the church and then were told that was okay but only if they make the episode funny.

And then they left with rice crispy treats

Does that mean Joseph Smith's body parts were scattered across the U.S.A and the burial sites became Devil's Palms?

@@JustYaHater5097At least one state had a bounty to whoever could bring his head. Someone was struck by lightning when trying to remove it.

@@ImprovmanZero ya it was in Carthage right after he was murder why he was in jail with out being convited or even an arrest warent.

@@hatowtinow8190A group of people conspired to get him accused and locked up there specifically so that he would be caged when they gun him down. The idea was without it's head the religion would die. While locked up his brother Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards, and my ancestor John Taylor chose to join him there to keep him company. He and his brother didn't leave.

​@@hatowtinow8190That goes into human intolerance of things alien to them. If I recall right, the guards were boasting about ending Mormon lives over a poker game in front of him and Joe stood up and told them off too, which callous on their part and big brass ones on his.

Jesus should show up and say the Mormons are right its all true that would have been a funny ending also

​​@@daraghokane4236In South Park canon only Mormons go to heaven. (Except a few exceptions)

​@@ZeallustImmortalWhich is really funny since Satan came to Heaven in one of the new seasons.

Yeah, but the Super Best Friends were a thing with every major prophet and deity working together. Granted, I can see humanity doing that if any god reappeared with anyone less than sound and fury. Jesus or Muhammad could be like, "Actually, both sides..." and they'd see all their believers plug their ears like "LALALALALA!! I'm not listening! My side is thr best side!"

Orgasmo is absolutely hilarious! 😂

Orgasmo sounds like the name of a magician who only does 18+ shows

Oh my gosh they were a porn star. 💀

​@@darcys842omg true, kinda like a stripper magician

Also Cannibal the Musical goes into an obscure court case involving...well precisely the name. And yes, Orgasmo sounds so much wrong, because it is. They become superheroes with a gun that gives people a too fun a time for RU-vid administration.

I saw the episode before, and I didn't catch it at the time

@@DoctorOaks Even when they started to do the smart smart smart for his wife?

Yup, as dumb as the lore is they at least treated it with respect cause it's a legit religion

we know it sounds dumb

​@@bunnyconcubus8468tbf it's not really any dumber than the average Christian lore as a whole anyways, but yeah

​@LucasF25 it's a fan fiction of Christian lore and nah my guy Christian lore is way way more sound than that shit.

@@randomanun4278 Bro, it literally isn't. Christianism is already FanFiction of Jewish Lore anyways. That by itself is ripped off of Zoroastrism. Nothing is original in the world, it's all just a buncha stories anyways.

patience,kindness and persistence the triple threat lol

That's because at the Missionary Training Center they take a really intense course in language. I didn't know they come out better than some native speakers, but it's really insane.

@@angrytheclown801 My native tongue has 8 tones and most of the words are 1 syllable. There are even 3 main dialects and another 2 that are mostly dead. Look up hmong tongue twisters. You will understand how annoying to pronounce my language is. The written language was created by the CIA though. It's surprisingly easy to learn as long as you can speak it.

Its crazy how fast a lot of my LDS friends learn languages. I swear its like a super power they all have. Even the most complicated and obscure languages they can pick up so fast.

Trey Parker lived many years in Utah. Matt Stone lived in Colorado, really close to the border. It's almost impossible not to hear all about the church.

Steel ball run is literally goated, Jesus Christ is canonically a stand user

Correction God is by definition unchanging. The reason African Americans were denied the priesthood was because it was dangerous in a heavily racist society. By 1978 Americans as a nation got better.

@@ImprovmanZero sorry but you're not going to sway my mind with that obvious bullshit justification. They took that long because the heads of the Church were racist fucks and it wasn't until 1978 that they were forced to change by the government and Kimball framed it as a revelation from god.

Not exactly

@@charlemagnetheFranks with some exceptions, but mostly just Mormons.

😂😂😂

Yeah, he was even really respectful too, he's fiine

That's because they self censor their people. They don't Cancel you directly, they just tell everyone in their cult you are a non believer and part of the devil's influence.

@@DatPlayfulSin Not as devilish as you're making it out to be, buddy. It's just as much of a cult as literally any religion in the world. Some of them can definitely be Judgemental but nothing unusual there either ig

@@LucasF25 I think you misunderstand. They will accuse South Park or anything that goes against their opinion devil influenced. So they don't have to Cancel anyone if they convince their own people that everyone else is the devil

​@@DatPlayfulSin I have never met a single Mormon like that, even when I became Pagan while in the military.

Christ never said judge a man by his works? In fact the exact opposite was said- ??????????????

Nah.... Truth=God/Good.....Lie=Devil/Bad.....

different context it was if they are of God or not. Judge not is a different part. Vengeance belongs to God

.... do you mean "Ye shall know them by their fruits"

Bro he also says denounce all but him and his father so it's not just works as much as some like to say

"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul,"👹

so it's a social group and not a religion.

​@@charlemagnetheFrankswhy did you write "One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."? Seems like a random response on a comment like this.

@@drizzmatecIgnore the troll

@kinagrill it's weird because the social group and the religion aspects are both super tied together, but I'd say most people care more about the social group than the religion

I don't know man I miss those videos :/

Oh, you mean The Poor Kid, from Season 15. That one was a great episode, one of my personal favorites.

You gotta figure they missed some details for comedic effect, that's the nature of the comedy shows. But they got more right than wrong.

If I remember one of the writers is a former member who is on good terms with his family who are still members

Dylan's family is mormon..... Ooohhhhh, it all makes sense now.

​@@Flynn217somethingthat's not confirmed

​@@ImprovmanZeroYeah, that's more common than you'd think. I walked away and a grand total of 0 of my friends and family stopped talking to me.

that's funny because of all the old testament stories, noah's ark is the only one backed with evidence from cultures all over the world of a worldwide flooding event

@@jansonshrock2859 ""backed from cultures worldwide"" you mean having stories all over the world with similar elements, much like many other stories, which more than anything is just another case of culture being spread around throughout the ages? I mean, Dragons, vampires and all kinds of things are also all over the globe but that doesn't have much value other than the antropological one.

Besides, those stories are completely different anyways and they all rely on everyone else except for one or a couple of people being the only ones left, so... Ehhhhhhh, idk about that one, chief

​@@jansonshrock2859meanwhile, Egypt, China, and more having their civilization exist right through the supposed flood times without ever noticing it happen. Also, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of those myths, including Noah's Ark, originate from people living in a place called the Iraqi flood plain. As you can probably guess, it floods a lot.

@@LucasF25 wdym by that? If different people experience the same world event they are going to describe it differently did you know that? And what about the historical records of ancient greeks and romans finding, bones belonging to fish and shells and other sea life remains in the ALPS Also, you have the scablands which even scientists have caved and said it's been subject to an ancient massive flooding event. Additionally, the geologic timetable in north america shows a sudden increase in sea level by as much as 40 feet, accompanied by nearly 70% of North america's megafauna going extinct all around 12,000 years ago. But hey, it's just science I understand if you don't believe it

Congratulations for stating the obvious

Not when they are spreading misinformation.

@@zulunet3285 ya. When they start spreading propaganda that's when it passes the point of being about religion.

@@GrievousReborn as obvious as you think it is, people still try to do it so it should be said again and again.

@@zulunet3285, the whole "religious seeks to replace science" is a myth, so anti-theists can stop raging already. Most people understand the difference between the natural and the spiritual; that doesn't mean there isn't a need for both.

I think it's less about religion having family values to make people good and more about religion being an easy way to teach those values. Rather than telling your child "don't go out at night, it's dangerous cuz someone might kidnap you", you could tell them of a thrilling horror story where a child that went out at night was chased by a crazed madman who caught the child before they could run back inside, leading to them being kidnapped and having terrible things happen to them! Religions tend to have many stories with such lessons after all. I think most people are relatively neutral and simply want to live out their life in relative peace doing whatever they want (tho this is a personal anecdote). Given the chance, people may be nice/cruel, and I like to believe more will choose to be nice, but most of us want to take care of ourselves and those close to us first and foremost, so being good/bad depends more on the situation we find ourselves in. Hard to be a charitable and kind person when you're poor and starving, and seeing bad people rewarded doesn't exactly encourage people to be good. Beyond that, some people simply are bad, and this world can reward them (the rich don't get richer by being charitable). "Basically, it's hard for many to be good just for the heck of it in this cruel world." - Guy lucky enough to have an internet connection

The skin wasn't a punishment, God did it to separate his people from those who didn't follow his ways. Also the church has records of missionaries sent specifically to the descendant tribes.

@@ImprovmanZero Thank you for the correction

@@durk5331 It's not a correction, you were totally right. @ImprovmanZero is giving you the white washed LDS PR version. The 4th LDS prophet, Wilford Woodruff, called it "a curse of redness". If being cursed by God isn't a punishment, I don't know what is.

He was a sigma male if he made this all up, started a massive cult build a army that almost took over America had many wifes, Tate wishes he was Joseph Smith