Our attendance at “The Book Of Mormon”
Although we live in London, Vee and I do not take as much advantage as we should of the city’s theatres. However, this week we ventured out in the cold and rain to see the musical: “The Book Of Mormon” at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
This is a very funny, very rude, very irreverent and savagely satirical examination of the beliefs and traditions of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormons.
Give the Mormons credit though. They’ve taken advertisements in the musical’s programme and on the London Underground to promote a web site giving you their explanation of their religion.
The actual Book of Mormon has been translated into more than 80 languages and more than 150 million copies have been published. Its origin – an unknown language on plates of gold buried in the USA – and some of its revelations – such as the appearance of Jesus Christ in America soon after his resurrection – may seem bizarre. But no more bizarre than 10 Commandments being inscribed on two tablets of stone or the resurrection of Christ itself.
I find it deeply ironic that Catholics and Protestants, Sunnis and Shias, Hindus and Muslims can be so condemning of the beliefs of one another when, in my view, all religions have beliefs which are so strange, unverified and usually unverifiable.
I have explained my problem with religion in this short essay.