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A then-prominent apostate who’s since been excommunicated (but who was still, at that point, claiming to be very much a Mormon in some inscrutable sense) made an astoundingly foolish comment to a national news organization back in 2011 about the Book of Mormon musical: “I’m super excited,” he said. “I think this is our Mormon moment. The Jews had Fiddler [on the Roof] and the Catholics had Sound of Music and now we have this.”
Ummm, no.
Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of Music offered affectionate portraits of, respectively, the doomed life of an eastern European shtetl and the adorable human foibles of a few Austrian nuns, but they didn’t ridicule Judaism or Catholicism and neither was even remotely derisive of religious belief as such.
The Book of Mormon musical is something quite different indeed, as this newspaper article aptly points out:
As the saying goes, we shouldn’t be so open-minded that our brains fall out.
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