How I see the Book of Mormon & the Bible
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:35 am
For this little bit of silliness, Bob represents the Book of Mormon while Sean Connery represents the Bible. Bob is employed with Pixar as an animation/effects specialist, and is a big Sean Connery fan. Sean hasn't the foggiest idea who Bob is.
As a bit of an over the top Connery fan, Bob embarks on a project involving a recent connery film. Within this project, Bob takes footage of himself and superimposes these images, as well as bits of dialog into the film. He does a good job and is careful not to occupy the same space on screen as one of the real actors. Bob interjects as many little comments in the film as opportunity would allow, and even manages to reply to a couple of Sean's lines in the movie, even though Sean wasn't addressing him.
At long last Bobs work of art is finally completed. He invites a new lady friend over to view this movie in which he "co starred" with Sean Connery. They watch the movie. The gal, with a puzzled look on her face, asks him to start the film over from the beginning. A quarter through the second showing, she stands up and proclaims in a disgusted voice, "you were never in this film, its obvious nobody addresses you. You just chime in here and there with your quick little one liners - look at me, look at me"! She grabs her coat and is gone.
that's how I see the Book of Mormon. Trying to occupy the same time line and share the lime light of the Bible. "Looky here, me and the Bible, two testaments of Christ". The Book of Mormon quotes profusely from the Bible in a desperate attempt to garner legitimacy through association with the biblical script. The Book of Mormon tries to one up the Bible by using 20/20 hindsight to descriptively forecast the coming of Christ, and repeatedly mentioning its own purpose for the generation that would discover it.
As a bit of an over the top Connery fan, Bob embarks on a project involving a recent connery film. Within this project, Bob takes footage of himself and superimposes these images, as well as bits of dialog into the film. He does a good job and is careful not to occupy the same space on screen as one of the real actors. Bob interjects as many little comments in the film as opportunity would allow, and even manages to reply to a couple of Sean's lines in the movie, even though Sean wasn't addressing him.
At long last Bobs work of art is finally completed. He invites a new lady friend over to view this movie in which he "co starred" with Sean Connery. They watch the movie. The gal, with a puzzled look on her face, asks him to start the film over from the beginning. A quarter through the second showing, she stands up and proclaims in a disgusted voice, "you were never in this film, its obvious nobody addresses you. You just chime in here and there with your quick little one liners - look at me, look at me"! She grabs her coat and is gone.
that's how I see the Book of Mormon. Trying to occupy the same time line and share the lime light of the Bible. "Looky here, me and the Bible, two testaments of Christ". The Book of Mormon quotes profusely from the Bible in a desperate attempt to garner legitimacy through association with the biblical script. The Book of Mormon tries to one up the Bible by using 20/20 hindsight to descriptively forecast the coming of Christ, and repeatedly mentioning its own purpose for the generation that would discover it.