Ha! Your silly exobiologic colonies are puny and weak! I live right next to the universal source of sea monkey life! Bow to the stinking cradle that is the Great Salt Lake!

Yes, I have always known that maverick right wingers like David Lynch and the Coen Brothers were poisoning our minds with their secret "kill the commies" rhetoric. It's nice to see that someone else is getting the same signals from the giant alien transmitters we've been duped into calling theaters.

I'll see your bug ballet, and raise you one human body farm.

I agree wholeheartedly, the small but squeaky wheel does certainly get the grease!

You sir, win the internet.

I think the main reason that South Park gave Mormonism a left handed pass is that Trey Parker has some pretty cozy connections to the church. It's also why they did the Joseph Smith episode to begin with. It's material that he knows like the back of his hand.

Mormonism is a US centric religion because it appeared during the great revival period in 18th century United States history, and because Mormon beliefs transpose so much of Mesopotamian history to the North American continent.

Sorry, but I thought that some clarification for those of you not acquainted with the timeline of the Book of Mormon was in order.

I certainly wouldn't argue with that viewpoint, just as I would agree that if we all lived according to Jesus' teaching (whether believing him to be the Son of God or just a very wise teacher) we'd be better off.

Honestly, I always struggled with belief, even as a teenager. My father was a backslider, and my mother had a lot of guilt about us not being "faithful", so going to church was always a fight. As I grew older, I gravitated towards the sciences, and realized there were fundamental contradictions that I just couldn't…

Yes, you are right, there is a theory that a type of horse existed in America but went extinict prior to the re-introduction post Columbus. The problem here is one of bibilical math. If one interprets the BoM and the Bible literally, then horse went extinct before God created the earth (e.g. the earth is 6000 years…

Well, like Seventh Day Adventism and The Church of Christ Scientist, the Mormon church is a uniquely American institution. Probably more fascinating (to me, at least) is the Mormon belief that the Garden of Eden is here on the North American continent, in Jackson County, MO. to be exact! It takes some balls to claim…

Man, speaking from an Americo-centric point of view, I wonder that too, and I don't have an authoritative answer for you.

If you approach the Bible as a piece of literature to be studied (as in college), then I agree with your position. That is not the contention of the author here if I read him correctly.

Speaking as an ex-member of the herd, The Book of Mormon is so full of holes that it makes a handy collander. You can start with the list of animals mentioned as having existed on the American continent thousands of years before they were importing by the Euopeans, and go from there.

Life however, makes no claim to be infallible and omnipotent. The putative author of the Bible does. Further, both he and many of his followers claim that the Bible is literally and factually perfect. This would seem to "contradict" that claim. How ironic.

Very cool! Thanks for posting that.

They laughed at Professor Lidenbrock when he returned from the center of the earth with tales of primeval forests, but now we know.

Since you mentioned Utah, you ought to know that here your 'probing handshake' is common here, and has a name. It's called "The Sure Sign of the Nail" or "Patriarchal" grip, and Mormons use it to determine if you're in the club (Mormonism), and that you're not Lucifer.

Or she could just be announcing to any prospective partners that she has an arousal disorder...