It was taught in church.

Though fun fact, it has a minor basis in Old Testament fact. The Old Testament priests did have an urim and thummim which were used to divine the will of God. They were not used for translation, however.

@@TrekBeatTK I believe those were used to divine the answer to yes or no questions from God. The problem is, how do you know God is actually guiding the priest using them? I guess you could use them twice though...

@@davidtucker9498 I remember it being a little more complex than "yes" or "no," but no one's ever really figured out how the urim and thummim were actually used. No one's ever seen an urim and thummim either, so that doesn't help.

@@davidtucker9498 so basically we're talking about a divine magic 8 ball 🤣

🤐😂🤣

Hmm story of Book of Mormon according to me. Family chases out of Jerusalem. 2nd youngest son receives vision to build boat. Crosses ocean. 4 brothers split into tribes. Lamamites and Nephites are the "main characters" In general the "Nephites" are the "good guys", However both tribes go back and forth on being "good guys" or "bad guys" based in being "faithful" In general its considered Aztecs vs Mayans basically. They occasionally interact with tribes that were already there.. Such as Jaredites whom were in the Americas since the Tower of Babel. My favorite "story" is when the Nephites break up there Monarchy type system and try to set up a Republic type system. The last would be heir goes out to enemy territory. (The lamanites/aztecs) They try to capture him but he cuts off one arm every time they try. Delivers a bag full of arms to the main king. Becomes fully accepted as a result. Jesus visits after crucifixion but before he ascends. Around 400 a.d. they are basically wiped out. Mormon(name of person) compiles all the teachings into on compendium. Anyway. It reads nice. Flows better than the bible. I dont really believe any of it

How did he react to the episode as a whole?

Was Dum,dum, dum, dum ,dum playing in your head?

@@oblivion85 Haha! It sure was!

That’s why they made the Book of Mormon, to be savage and yet kind at the same time lol

Well I think they succeeded. They got to make fun of the religion and still portrayed the Mormon family as some of the nicest people in town.

Pretty much any ex-mormon talks about the mental abuse the church puts them through.

Trey and Matt have expressed they have a lot of respect for the Mormon faith, even if they find it ridiculous at the same time. They also found a lot of Mormons can actually take it on the chin and have a bit of a laugh, unlike Issac Hayes when it came to making fun of Scientology.

What about those Jehovah Witnesses? They spend half their life knocking on doors. Then you got the other lot with their sharia law which they want us all to follow.

So mormons thought you were white, and blk Hebrew Israelites say you were blk Africans. What a conundrum. 😂

I once had a white mormon (lived in the rich neighborhood, across from the reservation) tell me that native folks are, and I quote "half evil" and that's why god changed their skin 🤡🤡🤡

Well I mean Cherokees were very open do being with other races lmao

as funny as a white Jesus but just less common

@@roxas4439 I guess? That's not how race was seen by all tribes.

Oh you too huh?

It's all you need to know

@@Jeremycook_ as a former Mormon in Utah, I can confirm.

@@ChewyChicken589 as a former Mormon in Seattle WA. Same.

You ever watch Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie “Orgazmo”, if not I recommend

🧛🏼‍♂️🧛🏼‍♀️🦇🤣

I also heard they can turn into bats, so...

Huh, Stephanie Meyers is a mornon, and she wrote the Twilight books. Hmm. 🤔

@@sebswede9005 it's confirmed then💯🤣

So THAT'S why they have to be *invited* to dinner!!!! I see their scam!!!

Lol fantastic

No more weird pajamas for you👍

Emphasis on EX-wife

@@Blazedasonic like the saying goes: Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's fucking worth it.

That’s why y’all divorced? Cuz she was crazy? You think the next one won’t be? Lol

In Germany we call this "Geschichten aus dem Paulaner Garten"

Getting school grades by watching South Park...... 🤣- Classic ! That's awesome.....

That's awesome. Lol

We watched the episode in class.

It's almost like they are trying to tell you something haha

Pretty sure they were going for “dumb”, not dum

@@moobutt 🎶smart smart smart smart🎶

Still quoted regularly in my household

@@moobutt The "b" in "dumb" is silent.

Oh how I love this comment. I also would have been confused about whether I was supposed to be offended haha

Is it true the missionary ones that go door to door will help with the chores if you ask them? Because I have a lot of fire wood I don't feel like splitting.

@@NPK476 Lol

@@NPK476 yes they will. My roommate asked them to help pick up beer cans off our porch once and they did

@@dustywaynemusic6297 and to think all this time i've been spraying them with the garden hose instead of having them to something constructive for me. What a waste.

"What makes a man? Is it the woman in his arms? Just 'cause she has big titties? Or is it the way, he fights every day? ...No, it's probably the titties"

Now you're a mmmmwwwwawwwwaaaaaaaaaaNnnn!

@@TheKipperjones lmfao

Dave the lighting guy is the best in that movie

@@HeslaySnave I think unicorns are real kickass.

A good friend of mine in high school was (and probably still is) Mormon and he was awesome. His family were super friendly and it was great. (The following isn't specific to my friend or his family because at the time it never occurred to me to even discuss it with them, so if by some miracle you read this Joe S., please don't think I'm accusing you of the following.) The difficulty comes when you get down to specific beliefs about race, gender, and the like. I can disagree with people and still get along with them, but it's hard to buy into the whole "wholesome family image" thing when it's backed by a religion that features overt racism, sexism, anti-gay sentiment, and lots of specific behaviors that are deeply disturbing (ex: don't file a sexual assault complaint at BYU...).

They are very good, because they believe that they will be ranked into different heavens according to how Good they are. The best of the best get to go to the highest heaven, become gods, and create their own planets which they then populate by having sex with the multiple wives sealed to them while they were on earth. No, not making this up. Mormons who were less good go to a second-best heaven (Runner-up paradise) and the third place finishers, that is, nice people who weren't mormons, get a mere paradise and a juice box for participating. Okay, no juice box. 'Cause, you know, they didn't actually participate and weren't down with all the baptisms for the dead and all that. Reprobates, apostates (i.e. ex-mormons) and Hitler all go to "Spirit Prison" (Not Hell. All the signs on the wall in Spirit Prison say, "This is Not Hell.") and they spend 1000 years listening to Mormons from the runner-up heaven (seriously) who come to visit them (presumably on spirit-bicycles, wearing white spirit-shirts and little name-badges with their resurrection names on them ... but since the resurrection name depends on what month you were baptized, all the nametags say "Noah.") After 1000 years in IT'S-NOT-HELL the repentant reprobates, apostates, and Hitlers get to go to the third heaven, where they are issued sacred underwear. The non-repentant reprobates, apostates, and Hitlers get tossed into a lake of fire that is STILL-NOT-HELL!!! Yeah, I'd say that you can't make this stuff up, except that they did. Look, folks, let go of the counterfeit. Turn to the true Lord Jesus, who saves us, not by works, but by his Blood that He shed on the Cross. If you're working to get into Heaven, you made a wrong turn.

@@WhereWhatHuh Not quite. The terrestrial kingdom (second-best) is for people who are generally good and just didn't do all the LDS stuff. The telestrial kingdom (worst heaven) is for all the sinners who didn't actually learn the truth and then repudiate it. You can be a complete shitbag and still go to the telestial kingdom, because you never truly received the word of heavenly father in your heart and thus it's not *really* your fault. And yeah the telestial kingdom is still a paradise, but it's a paradise in the sense of what *mortals* would think of as a great place to be -- basically everything is awesome, so awesome you can't even quite imagine it on Earth. The damnation of it is you never get to hang out with heavenly father, or even Jesus, and you can only look up knowing you missed out on the really cool stuff. The spirit world is where you go waiting for the end of the world. It's sort of like purgatory but not bad at all. Pretty much everyone goes to the spirit world to wait for heaven -- it's not a place "bad" people are sent. Think of it as the lobby where you wait until heaven's business hours start. The nice thing about spirit world is that it's a "second chance" and with friends helping you back on Earth you can still make it to the celestial kingdom. This is where all the posthumous baptisms and posthumous marriages come in. If you were a jack mormon and never made it to the priesthood, or you did but still died a bachelor, or even if you never LDS at all, this can still be fixed as long as the deadline hasn't been hit. In the spirit world even if you don't do the LDS stuff you can still repent and whatnot and make it to the terrestrial kingdom. Spirit prison is the bad part of the spirit world where the really bad people go and you get kinda stuck there and it is a sucky place but you can still get a chance to repent and ascend, but your other option is you can wait out the 1000 years and still go to the telestial kingdom. Given this, it really makes me wonder why anyone would ever wind up in the telestial kingdom. "Oh wait, God is real and I really screwed up. I'm going to recognize all this and still sin like crazy because *evil is cool*. The *bad place* is Outer Darkness which isn't well defined but it's where you go if you're basically the antichrist. You get to spend forever in the closest thing LDS has to hell. It's basically impossible to get sent here and I don't even know why God would bother making it. To go here you basically have to declare yourself as God's sworn enemy and never ever repent. You can be the world's worst sinner and still not get sent here -- it's only for people who know all about the omnipotent omniscient entity that created and controls Earth, but for some crazy reason still think they can fight him. At that point I think the person should be forgiven on the basis of them being mentally ill.

@@NozomuYume So it's even more complicated (and works-based) than what I described. Good points. Thanks for the clarification. In the end though, you still need to be saved by Grace, and not by works. Works cannot bridge the divide to God (Father, as you say, though in Mormon-speak it means the Son, Jesus). In the end, we have to rely not on Temple Works and being diligent enough, but simply trusting Jesus. "Abraham Believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."

@@WhereWhatHuh Well, the LDS idea is that works DO affect where you go -- hence the multiple kingdoms -- but everyone gets saved unless they actively reject it, and you get an extra period of proof of Jesus where you can improve yourself and it's basically impossible to not believe. Doing good works on Earth just gives you a head start. Progress in the spirit world is much, much harder because you no longer have a physical form to do good works with, so all your progress must be done internally, and with the help of those still alive who can help you on your way (again back to the posthumous baptisms). I don't know if the church ever clarified if you absolutely *needed* a living person to help you, but that it definitely makes it easier. Even though progress is harder in the spirit world, there is the advantage that you have a lot more time to do it. It is considered the responsibility of those in the paradise part of the spirit world to minister to those in spirit prison to help them progress out of it.

I mean, yeah some of it is exaggerated to a silly level but overall I’d have to say this is the most accurate satirical representation of the church I’ve ever seen. *Especially* the people. I grew up surrounded by those exact people. It was scary accurate there.

Pretty sure the creators are ex mormons too

No South Park doesn’t exaggerate in that way. They are very good at keeping actual topics on topic but showing the ridiculousness

It's not just mormons. If you put all religions on a board then threw a dart at it you'd hit a ridiculous religious belief. All organised religion is flawed and sometimes cynical

Have you seen the one on scientology? I thought that one was extremely exaggerated or not close to being true and it ended up being pretty accurate. It really seems like a science fiction fantasy movie (which it basically is considering it was written by a science fiction author). If you think about it, every religion is actually pretty insane. If you didn’t know anything about any religions. Then watched a movie/show telling the stories of each religion and was told this is what actually happened. You would think that’s absolutely insane!

sometimes real things are funnier than fiction

@@Oleoay lol exactly. That's why when something completely ridiculous happens to me, I immediately go off like I'm Jeff Ross 😆 just to make myself laugh instead of getting angry

remnder there is a reason they'll soemtimes have a disclaimer that reads "(insert religion/beleif groop here) really beleive this"

South Park shocked me plenty of times with its accuracy 😂 Like while watching the episode I think they’re totally exaggerating than I look up the topic and find out they’re spot on

I'd argue that the English still in England (I am one, I moved to the US only in '78) are genetically-selected NOT to believe in Mormonism. LDS brought over tens of thousands of English over the 1840s and 1850s. To this day Utah/south Idaho is an island of Anglo in a sea of German and Mexican.

@@zimrielyou might have done a little bit too much LDS in the ‘60s. static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/f/f5/LDS.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140213185103&path-prefix=en

I think that was in Hell. They were all told their religions were wrong until someone asked “Well which one was right?” “Ah that would be the Mormons.” Everyone in the crowd let’s out a collective AAARGG

Season 4 episode - "Probably", and fonkirby is right

Then, when Saddam Hussein dies and is being a real dick to his boyfriend Satan, Satan cuts a deal with God to transfer Saddam to heaven - where Saddam tries, an fails, to annoy the super polite and helpful Mormons there. And then later Saddam builds WMDs in heaven, so the US military has to bomb it.

Also in the Season 9 ep 'Best Friends Forever," they show Heaven full of only Mormons and angels 😅

@Reverend Ape No, that's God. Jesus was just Jesus, and he was killed in Iraq while trying to rescue Santa from terrorists.

Ugh, the restoration branch... Yeah, the-for want of better terms, "Main "Mormons don't like them either. Basically they're regarded as the shallow, hypocritical and abusive off shoots... When you have actual mormons saying that about a particular branch of theirs, you KNOW you fucked up royally! XD

@@Aussieroth7 RLDS, or now "Community of Christ" split off because they didn't want polygamy.

@@natekettlewell5169 RLDS... Reorganized latter day saints?

@@natekettlewell5169 No, they split off because they wanted to continue practicing polygamy...

@@Aussieroth7 York Rite Freemasons vs Scottish Rite Freemasons...

You’ll probably never read this but born and raised Mormon here. If you thought it was creepy your right narcissism is about 18x more likely in the Mormon church. And about 5x as many people with the inability to feel empathy (the psychopath gene) become psychopaths. If you thought it was creepy. Mormonism is a psychopath religion.

I’m appalled to say it but Ted Bundy considered by many to be the most prolific serial killer to ever lived joined the Mormon church after realising it’s literally a narcissism drug because everyone is so nice. You can put on a show like a psychopath wants to and you can be all Christy and you will receive praise and respect like no one else. Good deal for old Ted. Strong positive view on his character. The Mormon church’s members are responsible for well over 200 murderers and serial killers that have been caught. Many remain at large as they can kill, rape, and torcher while never being suspected by any of the others in their faith

Smart smart smart smart smart

@@SM-tq6xc no no no no no

Joseph smith is Dumb de dumb

Mormons don't date till 16 depending on the family some wait till 18

I’d say you dodged a pretty big bullet there bud

You had more game than me at that age, or now for that matter.

There is an unwritten rule that you need to be married by a certain age. I think it's around 25 to 30. This is from Northern California so this may not be true for other areas.

@@insanumyu923 im an ex mormon, my family never put that rule on me, probably because im a man, and also i dont have any sisters. So i dont know, i guess it is more related to the person/family than the religion.

You have that level of ridiculousness with every religion. It's just more obvious with recent religions like Scientology or the Mormons, because it hits closer to home than religions with a milennia old history. Like the merciful father who lets his alleged "son" be tortured to death for three days, because that’s the only way this all powerful being can come up with to release us from our so called "sins", that are all our responsibility for some weird reason. ^^

​@@mori1bund Exactly. The lesson of the patently ridiculous faiths and spiritual systems created in the last few hundred years (like LDS, Scientology, and the cargo cults of Melanesia*) isn't to give credence to the greater veracity of older religions (which somehow feel more likely to contain at least some truth, at least to most Americans), but to essentially show that if humanity survives another 1,800 years, something like Scientology (if it still exists - the major faiths of the world today are survivors of a long process of spiritual attrition) will be perceived basically like Christianity is today.** *All religions have ludicrous origin stories.* Today's crackpot is tomorrow's "legitimate" person of faith. *If you're not familiar with cargo cults, look them up - they are absolutely fascinating proto-religions that exist only as a result of hunter-gatherer tribal cultures coming in contact with the technology and excess of modern Western peoples (starting in the Victorian period, and continuing to the present). **Indeed, if Scientology survives, it will certainly evolve (all religions do), making it quite possible that in as little as a few centuries, Tom Cruise will be known as a prophet (or even a minor deity) to those future believers, with people who grew up watching his movies and following his exploits in the celebrity-obsessed media, people like you and me, being seen as #blessed to have experienced the wisdom of a supernatural being firsthand.

Right. I like to pride myself in respecting all religions until they hate gays or say my family is red because God punished us lol

The Jehovah's witnesses are doing this now. They come door to door in my city, literally just standing outside of apartment buildings dialling random numbers to talk to anyone who will pick up and then trying to be nice enough for you to go down and talk to them. Only then do they do the big smile while calling you a sinner and that you deserve to burn, but it's ok because you can be saved! Hooray! It's so freaking evil and manipulative

Didn't work so well for early Christians because for the people who persecuted them, nailing people to crosses or feeding them to lions was an afternoon's fun

you so cleva!!!

Martin Harris dumm

Me waking up: NOT A MORNING PER-SON! GRR GRR GRR GRR GRRRRRR!

Lmao

My girlfriend is an ex Mormon and we always think its funny to call her a "recovering Mormon". Sucks though honestly the religion messed her up bad. She really is a recovering Mormon

Theres a good reason why the term 'Dark Ages' is no longer really used by Medieval historians. One of the main reasons why Rome was able to further human knowledge is that it was an economic powerhouse, so people didnt constantly have to worry about starving or dying and many of its provinces relied on trade from other provinces to be able to function. So when Rome collapsed, it was such a major upset that it literally took centuries for many of its former provinces to recover and during that time it was hard to justify luxuries like studying science or maths when you weren't sure if there would be enough food to eat, or if your country would be invaded by a hostile power. But ultimately once Europe was mostly stabilised again, it was actually the Christian monks who kept the fire of knowledge alight. It was they who kept many books from before the fall and they who taught people how to read and understand Latin and Greek (The language most science and history books were written in). Many monasteries and churches were used as schools, and eventually became the first universities. So while I'm sure some priest somewhere in the world burned a book for being 'heretical'. The reality is that if Christianity had not existed after the fall of Rome, its entirely possible that thousands of years of knowledge may have been lost forever. TL;DR - Dark ages weren't really all that Dark largely thanks to Christianity.

Former atheist turned theist here.. I'll pray for your soul

@@shittyshitposter2157 the Dark Ages are considered Dark Ages as a descriptor, not as an actual Epoch. It's similar to how climatologists used Glaciacian or Ice Age to classify an era due to objective measured. A Dark Age is a massive regression in widespread knowledge and economic development. After the collapse of Rome, this did in fact happen and there is objective evidence of this. The Dark Age era is only a part of the Middle Ages, rather than the whole, but a good few centuries at the turn of the millennium was in fact a bad time. It's not only Dark Age to have existed in our history either. The Bronze Age Collapse also proceeded an immediate Dark Age period thar last 300 to 700 years depending on tbe region. Same objective markers apply, a collapse in economic development and wide spread knowledge. The reason why the Catholic Church gets a bad wrap with the Midieval era Dark Age is because they held the knowledge exclusively and did not share it to the general population. Monks recorded knowledge to keep the libraries growing but at times were selective at what knowledge was recorded (as some religious leaders were more offended by outside knowledge than others) and thus some Monastaries were not as inclusive as they could have been as a repository for knowledge. And because only the Church was deemed worthy of distribution, there was a hierarchy that often restricted the general population from over learning to read or write on purpose, so that the masses could not utilize the knowledge to begin with. This changed slightly over time and with the reestablishing of trade and economic growth following the fall of Rome and the plague later, Royals finally could rebuild what was left to rot and begin advancing again even with less than 10% of the population being able to read or write. Compared to the height of Rome, where the general plebian mass in metropolitan areas that would be considered the 'Middle class' today (the craftsman population), Roman citizens of such status and higher did in fact know reading and writing and also were quite prideful in their arithmetic. There was a game they would play in which when they'd pass one another on the streets, they'd ask 'what number are you?', and the reply was to use quick math to sum the number value of all the letters of their full name. This is where '666' came from for denoting who the Anti-Christ was. It was based off of a Roman game which became code for also identifying a particular Emperor that certain people didn't like... So compared to Roman times, the early Mideival period was in fact, less educated and less economically developed. This Church was party to that but clearly, wasn't the cause of it. They just didn't help much until later. They were the inspiration for Gutenburg in the 1450s because it was the Church's wanton of a standardized Bible that inspired Johannes Gutenberg to make use of his brand new European Printing Press invention. And within 30 years after he did, there was over a thousand such Printing Shops Printing millions of books, which was the official start of tbe Renaissance Age (beginning in Italy) as a result.

Being atheist is almost the exact equivalence of a lack of understanding, lack of intelligence and lack of wisdom as being an orthodox, indoctrinated theist is.. both poles of thinking are equally dimwitted and ignorant. at some point you will realize there is a creator but no he doesn't tell you that you gotta wash your hands and face 5 times a day or wear blessed cotton under garments or sanitize a baby's circumcised penis with your mouth. our creator endowed us with the authority and ability to discern the correct way to live and create our lives but we have to take responsibility for the need to achieve the wisdom to do it. not all the goofy stuff written in scripture or churches.

@@shittyshitposter2157There is a book called “How the West Won” which elaborates your comment. It’s s good read!

Did she actually pee herself?

Me of mostly northern European decent: "Screw you." Seriously. 10 minutes in the sun in May and I make lobsters jealous.

@@Lordoftheapes79 🦞🦞🦞😂

I feel you on that one.

@@Lordoftheapes79 LoL 😄

Lucky. I'm ginger so I get it worst.

That Shit is in my head for years now😂😂

What are they going to make a whole funny show about? The oldest one went to prison for child pornography and accused of molesting minors. From there you say the wrong thing and you're getting sued. It is just one of those situations.

Still on

I'll drink to that, LOL.

book of mormon is back soon I saw the poster in Times square last week

I saw that musical on broadway and it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. I laughed the entire time and by the end, my sides legitimately hurt.

still going. i still haven't gotten to see it but they did it in hollywood last winter. the lines were crazy at the pantages

You should see them take on how insane scientology is

@@SJamesGill88 rip chef🥺

Until you consider the virulent racism.

@@majorwakanda8858 never heard a Mormon utter a single derogatory word about anyone. Did you live in Utah?

@@danlabok7117 I used to be Mormon. My mother thought they were nice people and that I needed role models. My shelf broke when I learned of the racist past of the church as a young teen. The official stance of the church was that black skin is the cause of the curse of Cain and forbode blacks from holding the priesthood (essentially the ability to perform rites (ie. Bless sacrament, perform baptism etc) ). Mormonism also requires that Mormons marry Mormons, but forbode interracial marriage, imagine being a black Mormon person. So maybe you personally have not heard a Mormon utter anything bad about anyone, but their religion was founded on horrific and racist principles until the god of the book of Mormon changed his mind in 1978.

@@majorwakanda8858 it was an elder (head of the Mormon church at the time) that revamped the racist part to protect the religion not out of goodness of his heart. The religion ( like all religions) is based on a person (prophet) hearing a calling and then transferring that to further lies and to keep the fraud (and money) coming into the church's tax-free coffers. Ever wonder why only men somehow only hear from "god"? So I guess women have no sense of religious telepathy?

But did he get other girlfriends and tell them to call each other "sisters"?

@@al5306 No.

@@al5306 That's only still a thing for fringe splinter groups in southern Utah. The official stance of the modern church on polygamy is to adhere to the law of the land. It's illegal in the States, so it is no longer practiced or encouraged.

I’m not surprised since they wrote “The Book of Mormon”

@Nikki, the lds church has existed 2 times as long without polygamy than it has with polygamy. Plus there's more active lds members than there are jews, so if the lds where ever to start it again everybody would get mad quick.

Your mother sounds like am amazing woman from the way you described her. It takes a lot of courage to do what she did, especially in a time period like that. I know there's probably more to the story as well but I'm not gonna pry, but you know just being against racism, sexism and homophobia, would've been seen as extremely progressive back then. I salute her for doing what she did

‘And I beliieeeve that in 1978 god changed his mind about black people.’ ‘BLACK PEOPLE!’

​@@tyerker what does that have to do with anything and it wasn't "god" that changed his mind it was god correcting his prophets

@@Barkz01 It is a line from the song "I Believe" from the musical "The Book of Mormon", written by the same people who wrote this South Park episode. Lighten up.

What did they say about black people? In the 60s, people some churches said they had the mark of Cain and were forever cursed by God.

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Fr. At least Mormons don't stalk you and your family, and actively try to ruin your life. They just guilt trip you into complying by being SUPER nice and wholesome.

Same shit different cult.

@@movietimeateds69 They do very much stalk you and send people to check up on you and ask you to reconsider. They just stalk you in a nice way. For years and year and years.

@@movietimeateds69 nope my friend was an exmormon and they broke our skateboards

Thank you for telling me this I'm planning to move shortly and my choices are down to Utah and Wyoming

Sounds just like this Mormon dude that went to my high school his name was Brennan. The dude was the shit at sports and a super nice dude. And nobody could really make fun of him being Mormon because he was nice asf even tho he was popular he didn't hate on anybody, but he got in trouble when his parents found out he "smashed" his girlfriend at the time, who he ended up marrying so iguess all is good. Lol Sorry for the random comment, just reminded me of the only Mormon I ever knew 😅

Damn, it's almost like a supportive family, strong ethics and values make you solid person. I honestly wouldn't mind if everyone was down for some latter day saintage.

There was a Mormon family who lived down the street from me. Their house was run down, and their garage door always up, showing their "years supply" of food. Their son went off to be a missionary, and came back all f*cked up...mohawk, tattoos, nipple rings and a nasty drug habit ( I heard rumors later he died of an overdose). The father who's own house was run down, was the groundskeeper for his his church, and kept the lawn immaculate and perfectly manicured. He'd call the cops on kids who dared to walk across the lawn, or ride their bikes in the churches parking lot. He was an evil bastard, and all the kids in the neighborhood hated him.

@@Skulllywag Sounds like that "restoration branch" mormons that was mentioned earlier in the comments section... Basically they're the dark side mormons that the main group kinda kicked out/disvowed-and with good reason, THEY'RE CRAZY!

@@Skulllywag Got to say this. I spent two years in SLC 7th and 8th grade. When my friends learned I wasn't Mormon (I didn't understand some of what they were saying) they stopped talking to me. Didn't even try to explain what they were talking about. Just dropped my like a hot potato. After that I hated SLC and all the Mormons who wouldn't include me in any way. I had to pass by the Mormon temple often so I proudly spat upon it's soil. Still proud of that today.

Yes. I was the only member of the church in my Family, so some times I would get invited to participate on a “Family Home Evening” at someone else’s house. I´m not a member of church anymore, but those were actually kind of fun. We would play games and eat rice krispies, cakes, ice cream, pies, pizza, etc.

It’s normally on mondays lol

@@MackenzieNoelle You're beautiful. 😍

@@Miblive I love the fact that Rice Krispie cakes is a real thing with Mormons. Thanks for sharing.

@@MackenzieNoelle lest we forget Mutual and such on Tuesdays (mixture of Boy Scouts and Mutual, lol)

Religion is brainwashing

because you were naive and indoctrinated at a young age - Mormons try to separate you from the outside world as much as possible. They give you tools to try and discredit "nonbelievers". Everything is about the heavenly Father when in fact it's just a bunch of old white guys holding on to patriarchal powers, subjugating women and making children compliant and silent. It breeds dangerous men

Look man. All religions are fake. Just a bunch of rules u agree to follow. The Mormons are really good guys in general.

In the opinion of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the major Protestant churches, you did not get baptised. Baptism is only valid in the name of the Trinity (some insist also on apostolic-succession). We Catholics will honour the baptism of, say, Lutherans because Luther never denied the Trinity and came from a monastic tradition, so was himself in apostolic-succession. We just mandate they go through RCIA for confirmation in our tradition.

yeah straight up lied to you, you have to do some serious shit to get excommunicated and who you marry def. doesnt fall into that catagory and i am ex mormon

Yeah...thats not true. Getting excommunicated isnt as rare or based on truth or logic as you think. If the parish council or council of elders or whatever doesnt like someone and wants them gone....they make it happen.

idk what kind of backwards branch you came from (if you habe ever actually been mormon) but i been in 12 different branches (my family moved alot) and i dont know anyone who has ever been excommunicated neither has my mother who has been in the church her whole life and my father for most of his life non of them have ever even heard of anyone being excommunicated for anything less then serious crimes and it was only once and "parish council" isnt even an a word ever used in mormon terminology meaning your just someone from the outside assuming or this is based of a sect of mormons that arent from the true main branch (there are some sects that claim to be LDS that actually arent) which isnt what the average mormon follows

@@jaredstearman3625 I said parish council or council of elders. You have selected reading skills, meaning you select the parts you like and discard the parts you don't. And of course you're going to defend your religion. Why would you know someone who was excommunicated? You're still in it and have no reason to engage with those who've been kicked out. Mormons use honey traps, aka sex, as a lure to get young men to convert. Young men and women promise marriage if only these people will convert. The victims do all the steps to convert and then find out their love has married someone else or disappeared to go lure someone else into the religion. Its a disgusting, dishonest tactic used often to fool people into joining. A religion that engages in that behavior isn't exactly trustworthy as to their word.

@@smokejaguarsix7757 1st of all if you actually read my first comment i am an ex-mormon i havent been to the church for 10 years and yes i have my problems with the church and its teachings what i cant tolerate is outright lies that people have made up to generate this demonizing picture of the church because the people there are the nicest people ive ever known in my entire life and hearing people say bs like "they use honey traps" pisses me off because its 100% bs and as for how i would know people were excomunnicated is because for most of my life my father was a member of the "high council" (thats its actual name btw) and he has never seen an excommunication event in his 30+ years as one across these multiple churches hes been too so dont tell me i dont know what im talking about i actually lived it you watched a south park special and heard a rumor and now think your some kind of expert on religion

What made you ultimately walk away?

@@Roar_Restored I always found it dumb, you just go through the motions because of family. The big “I’m done” moment was when a bishop wanted to me to out my best church friend for being gay. I chose friendship over religion. I made a wise choice at 14.

@@aaronhiggs I appreciate the follow up. It's hard to think freely for yourself in a religious upbringing. I get where you are coming from. Have a great day.

@@Roar_Restored well , for me , I always had an independent spirit about me. I knew very young that things were not right, at least in my ward. So I held to my own personal iron rod. Whilst I did learn good things, the church pushed me away from organized religions.

I wanna hear one of the jokes. I'm not even bein a dick, I very much so wanna hear a Mormon's inside joke.

I mean, yeah, they also created The Book of Mormon (the musical), if one needed any more proof of that. ^^

@@singenstattatmen5096 Really wanna see Book of Mormon

@@monkeykoder I dont think they were raised Mormon, from what I can gather listening to them they just lived in a very Mormon community so they had lots around them. Ive heard them say more than once that even tho they think the religion is kinda crazy they have never met a Mormon that wasn't a really friendly person.

@@gantorisdurran710 Steve Park is the Jewish one right? The one with the, as he put it. "Jewfro". Or is that Matt Stone?

@@skylarmccloud4080 I think Matt Stone is the blonde "All American" one and Trey is the Jewfro, i get confused tho lol they always appear together and do almost everything together.

Don't know who said it, perhaps Bill Mahr, but it was something to the effect of "Mormons are the nicest cult members you will ever meet".

alot of mormons are like that because they think they should or need to be but in reality alot of them are very narcissistic

@@yaruqadishi8326 what?

@@yaruqadishi8326 like them wrongly or join their cult?

You just triggered a memory of mine. I remember in my freshman year of college, in the dorms there was one mormon guy who was the nicest person in the world. Everyone liked him, but since it was 1st year college, for fun everyone would go to parties and get totally wasted except for him. I remember one Friday he went around all the dorm rooms with a sled asking people if they wanted to go sledding on a big hill nearby (since it snowed). Poor guy was only able to convince one person to go with him. I felt so bad, when he asked me and I told him I had plans to go out to have some drinks with people, and he just said so disappointingly "that's what everybody else's plan is too",

Jugs

Yep she got some B.A.T.s

She seems very sweet great personality very pretty.

Down bad

What did they say about blacks being cursed until 1978 when the god of the book of Mormon changed his mind? I used to be Mormon, I'm also biracial, but luckily as soon as my mother heard about this she dipped the fuck out. And never let the visiting teachers back in our house . This was 15 years ago. I never got the chance to ask a Mormon this again.

I would love to do that! Copyright is really tricky when it comes to Broadway musicals but I really want to find a way

Satan loves people that 'play' Church...

@@heresmytake2782 No he doesn't because they are harder to derail.

I'm an ex Southern Baptist kid. Can confirm the loud and angry bit.

@@heresmytake2782 you mean the made-up church satan - the one designed to scare people into "believing". another fantasy tale

Nice to see you keeping up the traditions of just making up whatever you like on the spot. Joseph would be proud.

wow, they believed you!? were they not at least shocked??

Joseph Smith definitely pulled some shit out of his ass and a whole lot of people ate it up like hot cakes.

@@mancubusjam ah! Runs in the family!

He's Joseph smithing everyone and you all eating it up like rice Krispies.🙄

xD

Glad you made it out.

@@alexmarkadonis7179 Sane!

My brothers watched it and thought it was funny. They're still in the church, I'm not

For the record, all religions believe some crazy stuff. Mormons aren't special in that regard.

There is no way they would ever go after Islam the way they did Mormonism.

@@stephenferguson9756 they did do a Islam one. It was not as bad as this though your right

@@stephenferguson9756 Well, Comedy Central won't let them. They had Muhammad as one of the Super Best Friends for like 12 years b4 THEY had to point it out to everyone. And that the episode had been re-running ever since the whole Muhammad controversy happened.

Agreed, plus "make love, not warcraft"

Honestly, I thought the ending was too soft on Mormons. It makes Stan out to be the bad guy "because what the church teaches now is loving your family and being nice and helping people." That statement is about as true of Mormonism as it is true of every religion.

Mormanism is a cult though it fails the BITE model

If he has a loving wife, he is smart to go along.

Yup, that one and sciencetology episode really opened my eyes how all religions are fucking stupid.

Half true. There were black people in the earliest church. After they became Brighamist the *church* turned white...

Church actually used to believe and TEACH that people with dark skin who "accepted the gospel" (aka became Mormon) would turn "white". It said so in the Book of Mormon.

@@zimrielthere was that scene in Ghostbusters where Winston told the mayor he’s seen shit that’ll turn you white. I guess the Mormon church has seen a lot of shit.

I left the church not that long ago and I love how you say 'recovering Mormon' as if we were drug addicts.

@@alannamcneill5679 Religion is one helluva drug!

They do hit on some of this in their Book of Mormon stage show.

I heard about the salamander thing and I'm so confused

Stan is the almost always miserable and it his own fault.

100% guaranteed you are all still in their official number count.