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Mormon Mythology
Watch this video if you feel like wasting a few minutes. It's a cartoon depicting the Mormon creation mythology. There's a character named Jesus, otherwise it doesn't sound anything like the traditional "Judeo-Christian" mythology. Trillions of stars ruled by many gods having lots of sex, a Jesus-Lucifer conflict that plays out on Earth and followers of Joseph Smith trying to get to Heaven so they can become polygamous gods themselves.
I'm not going to waste my time pondering the philosophical merits of monotheism vs polytheism, because frankly, it's all ridiculous and I don't really care. But let's be honest: if someone proclaimed ancient Greek mythology as the absolute truth guiding his life today, he would be laughed out of town. I question the whole concept of "Judeo-Christian traditional values," because it's an arbitrary hodgepodge of contradictory ideas united more by politics than philosophy or theology. But even if such a tradition did exist, I can't see how Mormons can claim to be part of it.
I'm not going to waste my time pondering the philosophical merits of monotheism vs polytheism, because frankly, it's all ridiculous and I don't really care. But let's be honest: if someone proclaimed ancient Greek mythology as the absolute truth guiding his life today, he would be laughed out of town. I question the whole concept of "Judeo-Christian traditional values," because it's an arbitrary hodgepodge of contradictory ideas united more by politics than philosophy or theology. But even if such a tradition did exist, I can't see how Mormons can claim to be part of it.