A Little More on South Park and Satirizing Religion
If you’re following this issue you won’t want to miss Ross Douthat’s piece in the New York Times today. The take-home point:
This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
I agree with John’s post below (responding to my own post just below his): I do not like religious humor. (I do recognize that it will always be with us, however.) So the announcment that South Park’s creators plan a Broadway play making fun of my own religion (Mormonism) did not make me happy. The only silver lining I can see is that at least my church is considered sufficiently important to warrant satiric attack.
But back to Douthat’s op-ed. Read the whole thing.
Phelps:
April 27th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I don’t know if you have seen the entire show, but if you haven’t seen the final scene from the “All About the Mormons” episode, you might want to give it the 58 seconds.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154259
I think it may put their views on religion (specifically vs. morality) in a clearer light.