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"All About Mormons" is episode 108 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It was originally broadcast on November 19, 2003. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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Plot
In this episode, a new family moves into South Park, and their son Gary, stereotypically depicted as unusually perfect (achieving high grades, being perfectly polite, etc.), invokes the wrath of the other boys. Stan is drafted into the job of beating him up by the other children, but Gary's sheer politeness leads Stan to discover himself walking away with an invitation to dinner that night. After dinner, the five-child, two-parent family has "Family Home Evening" where they play games, do performance art, and read from the Book of Mormon. Stan is intrigued and confused by all this, and asks his parents about the Mormon family's beliefs. His father concludes that they must be religious fanatics attempting to brainwash Stan, and heads over to confront them and beat them up (but only upon determining that Mr. Harrison is white). Instead, he too finds himself quelled by the family's perfection and politeness, and in the end, actually decides to convert to Mormonism himself. The next day, Kenny, Cartman and Kyle cruelly mock Stan for hanging around with Gary and his family, accusing Stan of going on a date with Gary. When the Harrisons and Gary show up, the three children walk off lying about going to "put in some volunteer work at the homeless shelter". Stanley Stan Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. ...
Family Home Evening (FHE) or Family Night, in the context of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, refers to one evening per week, usually Monday, that families are encouraged to spend together in study, prayer and other wholesome activities. ...
The Book of Mormon[1] is regarded by Latter Day Saints as divinely revealed and is named after the prophet–historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book. ...
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// One derivation of the surname is from the Scottish Highland word caol, channel, or strait. There are other possible derivations (see below). ...
The episode is noteworthy for its approach to the religion in question. Throughout the episode, characters ask questions about Mormonism, and the story then breaks off to a sub-story about Joseph Smith and the founding of the religion. For satirical purposes, the show deviates from the original accounts of Mormonism's founding by adding extra to stories originally left vague (e.g. the precise location where Martin Harris lost the transcript of the Book of Lehi given to him by Joseph Smith); furthermore, during the narration, an upbeat tune plays in the background, with voices repeatedly interjecting "Dumb, dumb dumb, dumb, dumb" and "Smart, smart smart, smart, smart" at appropriate moments. The show asserts assumed flaws in the religion's founding, which especially concern Stan (for example, that Joseph Smith offered no proof to the general public of finding the Golden Plates, and that he claimed to have translated from a slightly different plate after the first translation was lost while in the possession of Martin Harris). Stan ends up shouting at the Mormons that they're ridiculous for believing in it without proof; they smile patiently and explain that it's a matter of faith, while Stan argues that it should be a matter of empirical evidence. He further lashes out at them for acting unusually nice all the time, claiming it blindsides stupid people like his father into believing in Mormonism (to which Randy Marsh unwittingly responds "Yeah!"). Afterwards, Stan's family apparently chooses to convert away from Mormonism and goes back to Catholicism, at Randy's insistence. Joseph Smith redirects here. ...
Martin Harris circa 1870, age 87. ...
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An 1893 engraving of Joseph Smith receiving the Golden Plates and the Urim and Thummim from the angel Moroni. ...
As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal [1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or...
Stan's anger doesn't much upset anyone in the Mormon family other than Gary, who confronts Stan and the other boys the next day, pointing out that he believes his religion does not need to be factually true, because it still supports good family values. Gary condemns their bigotry and ignorance, stating:
"All I ever did was try to be your friend, Stan, but you're so high and mighty you couldn't look past my religion and just be my friend back. You've got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls." He walks away, and the episode ends as Cartman (with a new-found respect for him) says, "Damn, that kid is cool, huh?" Inaccuracies Some of the episode's details regarding Mormonism are either inaccurate or derived from readings separate from the most common understanding of the story: - While the episode says no one but Smith saw the plates, eleven persons besides Smith claimed in published declarations to have seen (in the case of eight, to have touched) the plates. The Testimony of Three Witnesses; The Testimony of Eight Witnesses
- The "four golden plates" depicted in the episode appear as massive tablets, perhaps echoing traditional depictions of the two stone tablets containing the 10 commandments. However Smith and some witnesses described the golden plates as a book-like collection (the exact number was never specified) of thin, metal sheets approximately 6" x 8" bound by rings.[1]
- The episode claims that Mormons believe all Native Americans are descended from "white people" who came from Jerusalem, and that another Israelite tribe killed them and was cursed with "red" skin as a result. The episode is broadly reflective, however, of a repeated indication in the Book of Mormon that Lamanites were "cursed" with a "dark" skin or a "skin of blackness" as a result of their "iniquities" and "transgressions" (e.g. 2 Ne. 5: 21; Alma 3: 6), an effect that has been interpreted by some LDS Church members and leaders, including former church president Spencer W. Kimball, to apply to modern Native Americans.[2] It should also be noted that the introduction to the Book of Mormon states: "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians." LDS.org
- For a discussion of inaccuracies from a different point of view, see this.
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An 1893 engraving of Joseph Smith receiving the Golden Plates and the Urim and Thummim from the angel Moroni. ...
Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was the twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985). ...
Cultural References - Gary's family was playing a board game called "Living" which is a reference to The Game of Life.
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References - ^ (Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, v3:9, 1 March, 1842, 707.)
- ^ "The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos; five were darker but equally delightsome. The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation. At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl — sixteen — sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents — on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather. There was the doctor in a Utah city who for two years had had an Indian boy in his home who stated that he was some shades lighter than the younger brother just coming into the program from the reservation. These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.", Spencer W. Kimball in General Conference, Oct. 1960, reported in Improvement Era, December 1960, pp. 922-23.
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