Actually, no, not Hell, Outer Darkness.
That is the Mormon version of Hell. There are only a handful of people there: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ted Bundy but soon enough Trey Parker and Matt Stone will be joining the pack.
The nail in their coffin? Their upcoming Broadway show, The Book of Mormon.
Christopher Beam from Slate tells us that "What followed is unlikely to please the Mormon church. The musical, written by Parker and Stone with Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez, tells the story of two young missionaries dispatched to Uganda to spread the gospel of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion. Part coming-of-age story, part buddy comedy, the show mocks Mormons' clean-cut earnestness as well as the specific tenets of their faith--that Native Americans were actually Israelites who left Jerusalem for America in 600 B.C., that Jesus appeared to them after his resurrection, and that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates he found in the ground with the help of an angel named Moroni."
How is this all going over at World Headquarters in Salt Lake City? Uh, not the way one would think. Remember how pissed the Muslims got at that Danish dude for drawing a cartoon? And at that Rushdie fellow for that boring book? Don't get me started on the Christians. Mormons don't play that way. "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ."
F*cking brilliant they are, f*cking brilliant.
WFDS
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