Jesus Wants Me For A Rainbow

The goal of it is to have audiences laugh at the way white American Christianity views and treats outside groups, especially those in non-white countries, and then walk away thinking "oh jeez, I do some of those silly things myself. Better fix that!" Instead, by choosing Mormonism as their "stereotypical white church" they solidly prevent any mainstream Christian from seeing themselves in the story. It then becomes "look at how ridiculous those Mormons (who I already hate) are! Glad I'm not like them at all!" And they walk away feeling superior and never once looking inward except to say how much better they are than the pretend Mormons on stage. So already it encourages the exact type of bigotry and self importance that it wants to discourage.

And then! It only depicts people of color as ignorant, violent, and diseased. You know, like a racist would. Now you COULD argue that it's supposed to be from the racist white character's perspective so of course they would appear that way. But here's the thing, narratively that only works if you, at any point say, "hey, actually this stuff isn't true". Otherwise, you're just doing racist shit.

And here's the rotten cherry on the whole shit cake: fans keep saying "yeah it's offensive, but the music is so catchy!" You know what else had catchy music? Blackface minstrel shows. Shit's still racist.

Heavenly Mother by Del Parsons

JACOB: Okay so I grapple the angel.

DM: You’re asleep. It’s an angel.

JACOB: I grapple. The angel.

Batya: ok i pick it up

DM: Its out of your reach

Batya: what if I stretch my arm reeeealy far?

DM: ok fine I guess you can try, roll acrobati-

Batya: Nat 20.

DM: Ok Moshe I gave you clear instructions. This is a puzzle for kindergarteners. You just have to find this rock right here and talk to it. And then you couldve gotten the water you were looking for. And now, because you didnt want to try to solve the puzzle, God and the people are pissed.

Moshe: yes but the people were being jerks and you refused to give me any hints and at a certain point you just give up and do what works. Hitting random shit has worked pretty consistently in this campaign

"Remember folks.

It says *Church Leaders* counsel against [blah blah blah].

But God is not Church Leaders,

God is God

And God counsels us through our own personal revelation.

God loves and He wants you in His temples.

Being driven away from the temple because of others who don't understand what you understand, does not mean that God Himself doesn't want you.