Saturday, September 5, 2015
Book Of Mormon
I recently saw the play, "Book Of Mormon." It is very irreverent and has lots of bad words, but I laughed a lot. The main writer of this musical was a New York City Catholic when he was younger. I thought that the whole play was going to make fun of religious belief in general, not just Mormonism. But what struck me as the play came to an end with a rousing finale of group song, is that the people all believed in doing better in their life. There is something at work that brings out a good in us. The religious leaders of Mormonism in the play, wanted a certain kind of "orthodox" Mormonism, but the people end up with kind of a hybrid "The Book of Arnold," as they dub it. But this belief makes them better people. It is very difficult, in my experience, to become a better person without a belief in something more than our little personal world. If I burn for laughing so much, I hope it is not like the bad Mormon dream of hell.
Father, I, too, laughed at some parts of this show. Some of the history of the Mormons is just difficult to believe. But then I think of Christianity and know some of our stories can raise an eyebrow. I guess it comes down to faith. Thought you might enjoy this review of the show by a Mormon.
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I saw "Book of Mormon" in a venue where the acoustics were terrible and I missed too many punch lines. I expected to see
ReplyDeletesome mocking of all religions but the feeling I came away with was that God was being mocked and that was disturbing.