Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: He has a very liberal view of "disrespect"

[quote name="skip"][quote name="Kotaku"]As a Mormon, I am much more accustomed to seeing my religion portrayed in unflattering and even disrespectful ways in entertainment media ("Fort Joe Smith" in Starship Troopers comes to mind, as does The Book of Mormon Broadway musical and HBO's Big Love series) than to seeing any positive or deferential representations. [/quote] All the Mormons do in Port Joe Smith is die after trying to start their own colony. It's not like Mormons have a history of going to barren places. The movie even takes pains to call them "extremists" and their deaths start a fucking war. Big Love also is about an extremist branch of Mormonism and (according to Wikipedia) the one kid who decides to leave the religion names her child after her polygamist dad. I haven't seen Book of Mormon. Does it actually make fun of Mormonism or is like "Bruce Almighty" and just rib religious conventions? [quote name="Kotaku"] There were multiple times that high-ranking Church members betrayed Church leaders by swearing false affidavits (i.e. Mormons planned to overthrow the government) which resulted in repeated imprisonments and even near execution, only to later have the traitors return seeking forgiveness and finding it extended by a magnanimous prophet and people (see W. W. Phelps, Thomas B. Marsh, Oliver Cowdery).[/quote] I'm guessing it was easier to obtain forgiveness for betrayal than marrying a black woman.[/quote]