it says its true and most of it I have found to be true to what they believe but Im curious to hear what you think.
also, mormons...how do you feel about the episode?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-epi… season 7 episode 12 if you want to watch it
Note, this is the complete link: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s07e12-all-about-the-mormons
Answer:
In substance, it's correct. The gold plates in this parody are shown as 4 separate plates, when they were actually claimed to be a stack bound with 3 gold rings. This parody also has the townsfolk in 1820 talking of Joseph's "First Vision" of seeing the Heavenly Father and Jesus. However, this is anachronistic since no one in 1820 knew of it like that, as it was first dictated by Joseph in 1838, and no published source mentions it until 1842.
Edit: Regarding Martin Harris, who "was lampooned as a credulous and easily fooled rich man" in this parody, see: How reliable is the Martin Harris testimony?
http://mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm#…
"In March 1838, disillusioned church members said that Harris had publicly denied that neither he nor the other Witnesses to the Book of Mormon had ever seen or handled the golden plates—although he had not been present when Whitmer and Cowdery first claimed to have viewed them—and they claimed that Harris's recantation, made during a period of crisis in early Mormonism, induced five influential members, including three Apostles, to leave the Church."
Edit: Regarding Martin Harris, who "was lampooned as a credulous and easily fooled rich man" in this parody, see: How reliable is the Martin Harris testimony?
http://mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm#…
"In March 1838, disillusioned church members said that Harris had publicly denied that neither he nor the other Witnesses to the Book of Mormon had ever seen or handled the golden plates—although he had not been present when Whitmer and Cowdery first claimed to have viewed them—and they claimed that Harris's recantation, made during a period of crisis in early Mormonism, induced five influential members, including three Apostles, to leave the Church."
