Go God Go XII

After reading the two reviews submitted to this and the first part which were topically concerned with simply retelling the plot as it occurred, I felt it more relevant to create a discussion to explore what I feel to be the heart of what the two episodes were trying to convey: whether religious wars have less to do with religion than they have to do with human nature. The juxtaposition is our modern era which is overwrought with religious extremism and war (which is mentioned by Richard Dawkins in the first part) and a future without religion but competing powers of atheistic organizations (who are fundamentally fighting each other for power rather than any religious dominance.)

If I was forced to come up with the message Tre and Matt were trying to prove ultimately with this episode (and I do believe nearly every episode of South Park in the last 6+ seasons has had a moral/ideological message), then my guess would be that although religion is often blamed for "holy wars," "jihads," or violence by those who oppose religion, it is likely simply a matter of human nature to be territorial and divisive and have wars against others... almost as sensible and self-conclusive as the theory of evolution might be.

And of course otters evolve and talking.... must all the japanese with otter pets :D like YouTube otters like Hana, Aty, Sakura, Bingo, and Belle,KOTSUMET

I genuinely love this episode to death, and as if the first wasn't good enough, the second just keeps building and building to a hilarious climax. I mean, Dawkins banging Mr. Garrison is already so damn funny, but the commentary about human nature and combination between spot on comedy is just amazing.

The Crank Prank Timephone part is arguably one of the best scenes in South Park.

Face it, this is nothing but rleigious nonsense.

Sure, the crators of SP a lot of times call attention to how ridiculous religions tend to work - but they never questioned their whole existence.

Here they do that to atheism, and not just that, but hughly misrepresent atheism, making it causing global war, ony answer to The Big Questioon, what is nonsense, overused apologetic lie. Atheism never provided any answers, just dismissed false claims, .There's also the anti-science attitude of the religious comminuty in this one, transforming athism to the fictious "scientism", equaling not just atheism, but also the whole of science to religions, and thus dismissing both on this false ground.

The episode is also obvious ripoff of the Life of Brian (from Monty Python), and by the wholehearted rejection of atheism (and science) also antisemitic, and not just mocking jews, like through Kyle, but rejecting judaism wholesale, declaring it as something to be eradicated.

And as good religious folk, for the final scene they just confuse everyone with that scene, where War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Christianity if Atheism, and Atheism is Christianity.

I like time travel stories, and I also like when they satire religon... so this was in my opinion a great two part episode.