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‘The Book of Mormon’: Is faith funny?
‘The Book of Mormon,’ a satirical musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, won nine Tony awards Sunday night. Parker and Stone are known as equal-opportunity offenders when it comes to mocking religion, but for some Mormons the irreverent musical, bearing the name of their holy text, crossed a line.
A Latter-day Saint view of Book of Mormon musical
Parody isn’t reality, and it’s the very distortion that makes it appealing and often funny.
Mocking Mormons
Note to Mormons: welcome to the American mainstream. Now, in order to join this fraternity, you need to go through the hazing.
Taking faith seriously
Faith needs to be able to laugh at itself, and so do the faithful. That happens far too rarely, and when it does, the net effect is largely positive for both the faith and the faithful who can do so.
Amos and Andy and The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a minstrel show for our present age with Mormons as the joke.
The truth hurts - unless, of course, it’s funny
They just have to tell the truth about Mormonism and people will laugh. Because faith is funny.
Mormons can be funny; laughing at God is not
There is a very clear line that must not be crossed, so as not to hurt those who love Him.
Humor is in the eye of the beholder
But how religious people react to material they find objectionable often does more harm to the religion than the attempt at humor.
To laugh is to be human
There is nothing human that is foreign to religion. Sometimes life is funny. Sometimes faith is funny, too
Learn to laugh at yourself
The way we practice our faith can and should be open to comments or humor.
We are proving Gandhi right
As the world is becoming more and more materialistic we are becoming less and less moral.
Faith and fun can coexist
We should all be willing to accept some degree of humor directed at our deepest beliefs.
Good humor is constructive, not destructive
The question, however, is where the line is between acceptable humor and inappropriate attacks on a religion in the guise of humor.
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