https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/11/03/planned-utah-park-honoring-book/

Planned Utah park honoring Book of Mormon, U.S. founding raises talk of Christian nationalism
Backers hope the Heber City attraction will teach visitors young and old that this nation is a promised land with a divine birth and destiny.

I wonder if they’ll plant flowerbeds where roses can blossom as a Lamanite.

The Book of Mormon should be a theme park. Just imagine the Jaredite Journey water ride.

The Moronie roller coaster ride where you get a glimpse of the celestial kingdom during one of its flips;

The Joseph Smith and Brigham Memorial auction held at almost any time daily. It's based on the old Disneyland pirates ride model that used tapes of "Clench a Wench." However, this one would be live with a Brigham Young look-alike auctioning off women from the audience to the highest bidder regardless of their marital status;

The believing Lamanites funhouse which involves the use of mirrors to make one's skin look whiter than it actually is;

Tapes of speeches given by Cleon Skousen and others explaining how the Mormons will save the U.S. Constitution when it's hanging by a thread;

And even more tapes of speeches by Cleon Skousen explaining how the U.S. Constitution was divinely inspired.

And my proposed name for this little playhouse? The Joseph Smith and Brigham Young Amusement Park with the slogan, "where Moronie is your guide."

Edit to change the name of the second offering.



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blindguy Wrote:
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> And my proposed name for this little playhouse?
> The Joseph Smith and Brigham Young Amusement Park
> with the slogan, "where Moronie is your guide."

And an Evergreen Ride where you hook up jumper cables to your genitals and have you watch gay porn. If you get aroused ride the lightning!

After all, "Galaxy Quest" is just as real as "The Book Of Mormon"...

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https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/blevins_12_11/

Galaxy Quest

With a name sounding more appropriate for a fantasy setting, Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park provided the inspiration for both an alien and its planet in Galaxy Quest’s (1999) rock monster scenes.

Remember the funny looking brown rocks in the background of the rock monster battle? They weren’t papier-mâché, nor were they computer-generated effects. The “goblins” inhabiting this valley are common brown sandstone eroded into uncommon formations called “stone babies.” Our planet’s erosion processes provided creative inspiration for an extraterrestrial ecosphere other than that of the usual water-loving, carbon-based humanoid. The rock monster that fights Captain Taggart seems to appear “organically” from this rocky landscape.

Located in a remote portion of central Utah, Goblin Valley can be found near Hanksville and off Highway 24, a couple hours west of Moab and Arches National Park. As a state park, Goblin Valley provides camping and standard park services for Earth travelers looking to experience the rock monster’s home.

In contrast to most other parks, Goblin Valley doesn’t proscribe trails to follow in the valley among the stone formations, suggesting visitors walk in and amongst the brown goblins, letting SF fans see Galaxy Quest’s rock battle site up close. Park visitors can be overheard using the stone formations as a landscape-based Rorschach test, comparing the formations to mushrooms, ducks, trolls, eggs, and more.

Scouts from all over the Southwest frequently camp here, playing amongst the goblins. One ranger indicated visitors love to walk amongst the formations during full moons—and to play moonlit laser tag in the valley.

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But if you are a mormon boy scout you get to push over the goblins.

At least Disneyland doesn't pretend to be anything other than a fantasy.

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> At least Disneyland doesn't pretend to be anything
> other than a fantasy.

Disney aims to be one's Weltanschauung, by halting individuation and promoting what I call "lactating nostalgia" for "kidults". The Church of Russell M. Nelson of Lackadaisical Saints has a more primitive template to the same effect.

As I said here:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2312619,2312619#msg-2312619

"Infantilism is a context of the nostalgic, and recursive nature of the late church and indeed late capitalism. By establishing lactating nostalgia, the church becomes mother proxy within the patriarchal structure, with Smith as substitute son/brother. Just as the secular world entraps kidults within fast food, [Disney-owned] Star Wars nostalgia, and Furry Fandom... So the church relies on primary songs, vows made at eight and the unobtainable bourne of youth to which we cannot return. The church produces asexual adults who are mired in adulthood, while the figure of Smith is not actualized and cut off in physical death before he reaches senex, and in representational death before he reaches true adulthood."

Same with Las Vegas.

The Book of Mormon is real.
Does not change the fact it is fiction.

Wonder if they will emphasize how the Mormons moved OUT of the US into Mexican territory - specifically to get out of the US - and even had an Oath of Vengeance against the US in their Temple Ceremonies for decades after the move?

I’d be a fitting tribute to their Mighty Whitey Jesus if they post these white supremacist scriptures, written in stone, all over the park!

1 Nephi 11:13 (Mary): “She was exceedingly fair and white.”

1 Nephi 12:23 (prophecy of the Lamanites): “Became a dark, and loathsome, and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of abominations.”

1 Nephi 13:15 (Gentiles): “They were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people [Nephites] before they were slain.”

2 Nephi 5:21: “A sore cursing … as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.”

2 Nephi 30:6 (prophecy to the Lamanites if they repented): “Scales of darkness shall begin to fall … they shall be a white and delightsome people” (“white and delightsome” was changed to “pure and delightsome” in 1981).

Jacob 3:5 (Lamanites cursed): “Whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins.”

Jacob 3:8-9: “Their skins will be whiter than yours … revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins.”

Alma 3:6: “And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion.”

Alma 3:9: “Whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his seed.”

Alma 3:14 (Lamanites cursed): “Set a mark on them that they and their seed may be separated from thee and thy seed.”

Alma 23:18: “[Lamanites] did open a correspondence with them [Nephites] and the curse of God did no more follow them.”

3 Nephi 2:14-16: “Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites; And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites and … became exceedingly fair.”

3 Nephi 19:25, 30 (Disciples): “They were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus; and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness … nothing upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof … and behold they were white, even as Jesus.”

Mormon 5:15 (prophecy about the Lamanites): “For this people shall be scattered, and shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people, beyond the description of that which ever hath been amongst us.”

Instead of a House of Horrors they’ll feature a ‘Heavenly House of Whores’

I wonder if they’ll feature a larger than life version of Min,

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/s/wj6UYxL13f

In spite of El Gato’s implication that it will be an amusement park, that is not the case. It is planned to be a sculpture garden, grass and tree type park, amphitheater for lectures.

Remember, El Gato’s goal is not accuracy, it is provocation.

"Called the “Monument of the Americas,” Neal hopes it will be a place where the public can learn more about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ signature scripture and the “blessed land” he and many other of the faith’s members believe the book foretells."

It's a private venture, not a church project.

I would rather see a Monument to Middle Earth.

Damn it!

So no "Revenge upon Arkansas" daily perfomances to delight the faithful?

Heber can’t get a break.

Which of the Indian slaughterings will they stage at noon, 2pm and 5pm, with an 8pm show on weekends and JoJu's birthday?



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They will need more daily re-enactments

In chronological order

1. Battle Creek massacre

2. Fort Utah massacre

3. Nephi Massacre

4. Bear River massacre

5. Circleville massacre

schrodingerscat Wrote:
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> https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/11/03/planned
> -utah-park-honoring-book/
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> Planned Utah park honoring Book of Mormon, U.S.
> founding raises talk of Christian nationalism
> Backers hope the Heber City attraction will teach
> visitors young and old that this nation is a
> promised land with a divine birth and destiny.

This article is behind a paywall.

I, for one, totally support this idea: it will be a great place to remind oneself, and teach to others, the events and lessons of the Book of Mormon, which will be *totally* unlike early morning family scripture reading, seminary, Sunday school, general conference, devotionals, apologetics, church magazines, books, and websites.
I also look forward to the Whack-a-Mole type game where you try to lop off Laban's head in one stroke every time it pops up.

I wonder how excited the Q15 are about a BoM sculpture garden? “Mormon” is now a dirty word, and the BoM seems to be edging toward the same status as the BoA - still technically scripture, but nobody actually talks about it anymore.

I had a couple of missionaries stop by wanting to talk about Jesus. I asked them about the Book Of Abraham and Book of Mormon references to the Curse of Cain being black skin and they acted like it didn’t exist.

I asked about the Law of the Priesthood found in Doctrine and Covenants 132:62-65, again, they acted like it didn’t exist and denied it was a Law. I don’t have any scriptures to prove it to them and they didn’t carry any scriptures except the Bible.

I asked about the Church’s paper on plural marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo, they claimed they read it and all that information in there had long been public knowledge. I asked them how many wives Joseph Smith had. No clue. I told them, 34.
I asked how many of those ‘wives’ were already married to their real husbands. No clue. I told them, 11.
I asked them how they reconciled that with the Law of the Priesthood, D&C132:61, which clearly condemns polyandry as adultery in no uncertain terms. No clue.

Missionaries these days act like they were lobotomized at 12yo and never saw a computer or a smart phone since then.