# Any LS'ers see South Park last night?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 20, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347 "2003-11-20T19:17:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![theretsof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347/1 "2003-11-20T19:17:21Z")

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(Sorry to those who didn’t see the show - i’ll look online for the script at lunch…)

Last night (11/19) the South Park episode was about a Mormon family who moved into town. One of the kids made friends with one of the South Park boys. The family told the story of Joseph Smith; gold plates, seeing stones, etc.

Although the story was obviously somewhat of a caricature, and from a non-LS perspective, were the facts basically true? I’m hoping for a somewhat unbias (if possible) opinion here.

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**Author:** ![TVAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TVAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVAA)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347/2 "2003-11-20T19:32:23Z")

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No, that was not a caricature. That was essentially a fair representation of the beliefs of the LDS Church.

If you need to ask whether the story was _true_, you really shouldn’t be on these boards.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347/3 "2003-11-20T19:40:50Z")

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[http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/mark-twain.html](http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/mark-twain.html)

Mark Twain’s take on the _Book of Mormon_.

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**Author:** ![theretsof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347/4 "2003-11-20T19:46:59Z")

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Sorry all, I looked but could not find a script.

TVAA, I am not asking whether the story is true. I could ask that of just about every religion “story” I’ve ever heard. Instead I am asking what you restated better than I: whether it “was essentially a fair representation of the beliefs of the LDS Church”

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-lsers-see-south-park-last-night/214347/5 "2003-11-20T20:04:31Z")

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I have not done LDS, but as far as I remember this is pretty close to the story I heard in school. I don’t remember the details like the seeing stones, or looking into a hat while another translated. Also I don’t remember the hiding of one translation as a test. That I found quite interesting.

But the intriguing thing was the end where they basically said I don’t care if you believe a particular myth. I was only nice to you and you blew me off. S$%^ % %##s!

Its like they made fun of the myth and then made fun of everybody who is put off by the myth. Very funny!