The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Turning the tables
John Safran, an Australian television prankster, decides to give missionary loving Mormons a taste of their own medicine.

Safran's indignant rant at the opening of his video bit about being the "Mahatma friggin' Gandhi of tolerance" is hilarious:
I don't care if you think Christ is the Messiah. I don't care if you think Christ is the anti-christ. I don't care if you think you are the Messiah. ... Care factor: zero.

Do whatever you want to do. Just don't knock on my door before midday on Saturday. Don't do it. I'm looking at you Mormons.

Seeking revenge, Safran and a film crew fly to Salt Lake City where he and a companion don dark suits and name tags and go door to door trying to convert residents to atheism. Pretty good, huh?

Safran does stumble onto one Mormon bishop, but what his Australian audience likely doesn't know is that Salt Lake City is less than half LDS. Thus, at least 50 percent of the poor schlubs he's annoying and branding hypocrites are Catholics, Episcopalians or pagans trying to sleep off a Saturday morning hangover.

2 Comments:

At May 29, 2008 7:48 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glen,

This is old news. This one has been out for at least a year or two.

 
At June 3, 2008 10:52 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe old news, but hilariuos, and I'm glad it was posted with a good link so I could see it. I am an active Mormon with a sense of humor (something you have to have to be somewhat sane and a Mormon), and this bit had me laughing out loud. Great stuff. Very funny and also good social commentary. I look forward to the day when the "Church" spends more time practicing what we preach rather than telling others how to live.

 

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