Fulfilling a Prophecy?
August 4, 2011 6:50 PM Subscribe
“They’re just building little Jerusalem.” The LDS church is building a replica of biblical Jerusalem to be used as a film set, in the Utah desert.
This post was deleted for the following reason: is there a non LOLMORMON angle to this? if so, maybe make this more than a news of the weird post? -- jessamyn
The LSD Church? Hey, I used to attend frequently!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:07 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:07 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I look forward to the gritty photos taken by the urbex kids twenty years from now.
posted by cmyk at 7:09 PM on August 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by cmyk at 7:09 PM on August 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
So the real reason their building this is so that Jesus can return to Jerusalem without having to deal with a bunch unappreciative heathens. In this case, Jesus will be a clean shaven white man with a very firm handshake.
posted by doctor_negative at 7:12 PM on August 4, 2011
posted by doctor_negative at 7:12 PM on August 4, 2011
So, it's some four dimensional hypercube arrangement?
Yup. You can't even see it properly without dropping LDS first. Two or three tabernacles should do it.
posted by eritain at 7:12 PM on August 4, 2011 [5 favorites]
Yup. You can't even see it properly without dropping LDS first. Two or three tabernacles should do it.
posted by eritain at 7:12 PM on August 4, 2011 [5 favorites]
This is quite possibly the most organically American thing ever made.
posted by The Whelk at 7:15 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:15 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
After months of construction, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will begin filming 55 educational vignettes about Jesus’ life next week on a new movie set modeled mainly after biblical Jerusalem. The set — roughly a football-field-by-a-football-field in size near Goshen, south of Utah Lake — has been painstakingly erected by hundreds of workers in hope of bringing the holy city to life.The nice thing about making religious films is all the free labor.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:17 PM on August 4, 2011
Sigh. Goshen's one of the few corners of Utah County still relatively untouched by development, and it seems likely this will become an attraction of some kind when they're done using it for film. While I guess Manti (which also has a lot of Mormon tourism with an old pageant that runs there in the summers) hasn't exactly abandoned its rural roots, it makes me nervous. I'd rather it stayed Goshen than became Jerusalem.
posted by weston at 7:18 PM on August 4, 2011
posted by weston at 7:18 PM on August 4, 2011
twenty years from now
Actually, they're hoping to still have it in use then.
posted by eritain at 7:19 PM on August 4, 2011
Actually, they're hoping to still have it in use then.
posted by eritain at 7:19 PM on August 4, 2011
It would be awesome if they were using it to crucify Warren Jeffs.
posted by elizardbits at 7:22 PM on August 4, 2011
posted by elizardbits at 7:22 PM on August 4, 2011
Boy I'm tired of pushing west. How long ago'd we leave Goshen?
About two hours ago! Ain't we ever going to stop?
...
Gee, what we stopping for? Are we in Goshen yet?
Oh, I do miss The Firesign Theatre.
posted by hippybear at 7:25 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
About two hours ago! Ain't we ever going to stop?
...
Gee, what we stopping for? Are we in Goshen yet?
Oh, I do miss The Firesign Theatre.
posted by hippybear at 7:25 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
More tasty tasty details. And now I think I'm done adding coverage.
They had a casting call out earlier this year for people with olive skin and other plausibly Near Eastern features. I'm hoping that means we get a nice brown Jesus this time around.
On preview, Warren Jeffs might go for that. Crucifixion by the monogamous mainstream church would fit nicely into this martyr thing he's had going on lately. I think the State of Utah would take issue, though. (I like to believe Texas would be totally cool with it.)
posted by eritain at 7:30 PM on August 4, 2011
They had a casting call out earlier this year for people with olive skin and other plausibly Near Eastern features. I'm hoping that means we get a nice brown Jesus this time around.
On preview, Warren Jeffs might go for that. Crucifixion by the monogamous mainstream church would fit nicely into this martyr thing he's had going on lately. I think the State of Utah would take issue, though. (I like to believe Texas would be totally cool with it.)
posted by eritain at 7:30 PM on August 4, 2011
football-field-by-a-football-field
I'm having trouble picturing this. Can anyone convert this to cubits4?
posted by etc. at 7:30 PM on August 4, 2011
I'm having trouble picturing this. Can anyone convert this to cubits4?
posted by etc. at 7:30 PM on August 4, 2011
It would be awesome if they were using it to crucify Warren Jeffs.
In fairness to the Mormons whose state I live in, and who are better-than-average neighbors, a reminder that Jeffs has as little to do with their practice of religion as David Koresh had to do with whatever Christian denomination you hold.
posted by Trurl at 7:36 PM on August 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
In fairness to the Mormons whose state I live in, and who are better-than-average neighbors, a reminder that Jeffs has as little to do with their practice of religion as David Koresh had to do with whatever Christian denomination you hold.
posted by Trurl at 7:36 PM on August 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
LOL crazypeople.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:38 PM on August 4, 2011
posted by five fresh fish at 7:38 PM on August 4, 2011
Jeffs has as little to do with their practice of religion as David Koresh had to do with whatever Christian denomination you hold.
yes, that was actually my point. I imagine mainstream Mormons hate him even more intensely than anyone else does.
posted by elizardbits at 7:44 PM on August 4, 2011
yes, that was actually my point. I imagine mainstream Mormons hate him even more intensely than anyone else does.
posted by elizardbits at 7:44 PM on August 4, 2011
In fairness to the Mormons whose state I live in, and who are better-than-average neighbors ....
I'm glad you have good neighbors, but that first part? No.
And hippybear, it's not much, but what more can a returning veteran with no shoes hope for.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:45 PM on August 4, 2011
I'm glad you have good neighbors, but that first part? No.
And hippybear, it's not much, but what more can a returning veteran with no shoes hope for.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:45 PM on August 4, 2011
benito.strauss: you get the medal for outstanding standing-out-ness. That's awesome. Thanks so much!
posted by hippybear at 7:47 PM on August 4, 2011
posted by hippybear at 7:47 PM on August 4, 2011
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So, it's some four dimensional hypercube arrangement?
I knew I'd been educated stupid...
posted by pompomtom at 7:00 PM on August 4, 2011 [1 favorite]