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raditts posted:Even with direct Bible references, The Prince of Egypt was pretty good, although not live-action. A lot of that is being hugely critical of the Christian perception of God by humanizing Pharaoh so much, and making him such a product of his environment that you can't help but criticize how God handled things. The Exodus story does it in a different way, because the Jewish concept of God is far more dickish than the Christian concept. But that would make a terrible movie, so making a tragedy about the situations people are born in works well.
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Book of Mormon does the best job at making their overall point, which is basically "all this religious stuff is ridiculous, but as long as people don't take it seriously and use the good parts as allegory to give them hope/not be a dick, it's cool."
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May 15, 2014 15:18
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raditts posted:Seriously? You're talking about the same mormon episode that had a song throughout where half the words were "dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb"? That doesn't go against what he said. The episode wasn't JUST about Mormons being terrible idiots because of Joseph Smith. It was, "this religion is based on the dumbest beliefs ever since it's close enough in history that we can verify how dumb they are, but some Mormons themselves are cool and kind of realize this, and you can come off worse than them by being a dick."
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May 15, 2014 16:49
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computer parts posted:Like I said above though they openly mock Islam which (at least the Sunni variant) also has no centralized belief system and they don't even pretend to target only the people who send death threats. Jesus lives in South Park.
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May 17, 2014 14:10
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Cemetry Gator posted:There's some of that stuff around today. Even on Ok Cupid, there's a question that says "Would you consider dating a Catholic?" And a lot of Christian churches still view Catholics a little warily. On the flip side, something like 90ish percent women on Match that set their religion to Catholic search for "White Men Only." (although percentages shift by regions) That's even more racial preference than Islam or even Hindu. It's a really interesting correlation that is more extreme with that religion than any other, which MIGHT have something to do with the structure/type of religion it is.
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