Essay On All About Mormons

The world is filled with a vast amount of religions, and living in America, citizens have the freedom to practice, any religion they would like. There are also people in America who choose to follow no religion but that doesn’t give them a right to hurt other who believe in a certain religion. In the 2003 episode of South Park, “All about Mormons”, a new Mormon family moves to town. This isn’t the first time the South Park creators made an episode that pokes at religion issues. The episode starts off with a young boy named Gary introduced to the class at the school. The main characters are Stan, Cartman, Kenny and Kyle. Right away none of the kids like the new student, and right away Cartmen makes fun of the new kid. When the kids are outside for recces, all the kids convince Stan that he should go beat up Gary. When Stan goes to do it, Gary is nice to Stan, which ends up making a friendship and having Stan invited over for dinner. When Stan …show more content…
Stan can’t believe people practice this religion because there are no facts of how the book of Mormon was made. Only one man translated it to English and let no one else try and translate the golden tablets. Gary confronts Stan the next day about what was said by Stan. He tells Stan that just because he doesn’t believe in Mormonism doesn’t allow him to call people stupid for following the Mormon teaching. Gary likes what he believes in because with Mormonism, it has made his family closer and helps other people in need. Stan resembles the people who offends other that practice a religion they don’t believe in. In the case of Mormonism, the most critiqued part of the religion is how it came to be. The argument the episode makes is, disliking someone because you don’t believe in their religion is inappropriate. Trey Parker and Matt Stone (writers of South Park) use irony, parody and caricature to get their point across to the