How (Not) to Make Fun of Mormons
[Church News] So far, a Trib story about the change of a single word in the Book of Mormon — expecting, no doubt, that millions of converts who previously had dismissed Mormonism out of hand will now change their minds — has generated a whopping 334 Website comments. (The D-News message board has only 65, but the board is moderated and requires a login to post.)
Any discussion of the Mormons’ sacred text is bound to generate more heat than light as church members starchily defend their faith against ex-Mormons, who love to taunt.
One thing we can all agree on, however, is that comments from clueless, out-of-state non-Mormons should stop now. People who have never lived here love to criticize Mormons every bit as much as the rest of us do — the problem is they never get their Mormon-bashing quite right. They always make the same feeble jokes about “wives” and “underwear,” and always in the same mystified, faux-bemused tone. It’s just irritating.
So, for all you out-of-staters, please stop making fun of Mormons. They’re our Mormons. We make fun of them because we live among them. They control many aspects of our daily lives. In some cases they’re even our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and a whole slew of cousins. We know what it’s like to be archly excluded from neighborhood block parties and we’ve learned how to plan ahead when it comes to Sunday cocktails. We’ve been there, man!
Until you’ve been there, too, it’s unlikely you understand what’s really funny about Mormons. You’ll make the same tedious jokes in the same mystified, faux-bemused tone used by thousands of would-be jokers before you. You’ll realize — as, surely, no one ever has before — that if you remove the second M from “Mormon,” you get the word “moron.” And then you’ll wonder why none of us are laughing.
Please, just stop. It just isn’t funny. (Brandon Burt)
Ya see this post is going to serve as a warning to novice bloggers, consider it a public service message.
On my trackback links I had a link to this post How (Not) to Make Fun of Mormons.
Now dude is swiping bandwidth by linking to one of my South Park pictures, but I don’t give a shit about that, his link lead me to read his post which provided a source of amusement. Anybody who read this blog knows my sense of humor is really jacked and provoking me is usually not in your best interest.
I’m still shunned in right wing circles because of my candor and my colorful use of language, fucken hypocrites, I bet many of these elitist bloggers engage in racist jokes or sexually inappropriate humor in private, however ole Snoop rants honestly about shit thereby simply acknowledging a krazy outspoken Negro or bothering to hook a brotha up with a link would be tantamount to endorsing my socially unacceptable rants….sorry people, cranky flashback…. bad Snoop, bad Snoop back on track please….
Now back to this dudes Mormon post. He mistakenly adds this little comment:
“One thing we can all agree on, however, is that comments from clueless, out-of-state non-Mormons should stop now.”
After I stopped laughing, almost in tears, I’m just thinking who does this dude think he is?
As I have said before, being a Negro, I have always had serious issues with Mormons,
Can a Mormon be president? Is this a trick question?
Commenter response: my “sensationalistic” post about Mormons
So any such individual who would dare to reprimand anyone for having an opinion about a religion that promoted racist doctrine is frankly full of crap.
I not well versed in the specifics of Mormon doctrine but what I go by is what was said by the leaders of the church just a decade or two ago.
I don’t have to make this shit up.
For good measure, let’s throw in this You Tube clip of John McCain’s mom and what she thinks of Mitt “Mormon” Romney.
Moral of this story, don’t link to the “Poop” if you don’t want poop on the bottom of your shoes.
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January 30th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Damn, does that really leech bandwidth? For some reason I thought Blogger copied the image to a dedicated server or something. I’m new at the whole blogging thing.
K, I’m going to stop posting the images that way; I don’t want to rob people who pay for their own bandwidth.
Thanks for the shout-out, btw!
January 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
No problem, hell I tell people all the time, feel free to take the images, I’m all about sharing.
Peace, Snoop