The Mormons have baptized over 100 million dead people, including the victims of the Holocaust.
If you don’t believe in that stuff, it shouldn’t matter, huh?
Is that like finding out the lady down the street has a voo doo doll of you, and she’s sticking pins in it?
If you don’t believe in that stuff, it shouldn’t matter, huh?
I don’t get it… care to simplify the question and/or point?
Yes it does, because of their intentions. If i set a bomb in a public place but it didn’t go off it doesn’t matter, right?
yeah if i attempt to kill someone be i fail it dosnt matter right?
Billy the answer to your question unequivocally is yes, it doesn’t matter.
And by the way, it is the Mormon belief that dead folk can be converted to their faith that has resulted in their being a major source of genealogical history.
The difference is the Mormons have good intentions…and if it does ‘work’, that means you get to live in Paradise for eternity. So, if you feel that it does matter you should be thanking them for ensuring you a spot in Heaven.
Mormons sometimes have baptisms for the dead, which means they baptise someone still alive but in place of someone who died without being Mormon…basically, it’s so the dead person will be in Mormon Heaven instead of Mormon Hell.
What!?
They’re making it up as they go along!
And that’s different from other religions how?
This is why I’m not religious.
Although when leathering it down a mountainside on my uni, I have been known to shout out “Save me, unicycling Jesus!”
But he never answers.
That’s because Jesus isn’t the God of unicycling, he’s the God of the universe or something like that…Kris Holm is the God of unicycling, try him next time.
Ryan Atkins is my hero. Kris Holm is my god.
Did you watch the PBS frontline/American Experience special last night?
They only baptize the dead of people who would have never known of the existance of Christ. So that they can make the decision in the afterworld to accept Christ and choose whether or not they go to Mormon hell or not.
They’ve also stopped baptizing Jews unless they are the family of a Jewish Mormon and it is requested by the family member.
It’s all pretty goofy.
Esoteric
That’s deep.
I hate to say it, but I discovered that, without consulting me, the Atheist Faith Baptism Committee has baptised EVERY MORMON into the Atheist Faith!!!
This is getting out of hand!
what did Joseph Smiths spouse say when he yelled?
“yes honey?”
“be in soon”
“Love you Jo!”
heheehe
eh? anyone get it?
(warning, this may not be 100% accurate as I don’t listen very well at church seeing as how I don’t quite believe it myself and I’m only 16 and have only been going to church for the last 16 years not listening very well I might add…)
ok to clarify, You know the big white castle looking buildings the mormons own?
Those are temples, we don’t go to church in them every sunday(we have normal church buildings for that). We perform ordances in them such as “baptisms for the dead” which the Youth of the church do once every few months, all the ‘dead people’ that are baptised are actually just peopel that memebrs of the church have discovered in geneology work who weren’t members of the church, if the family so choses they can sumbit the family member’s information to the church who distributes it to the various temples so that people can be baptised in the name of the dead person.
The heaven and hell thing is comlicated in mormonism, there isn’t just a straight up HELL and a straight up HEAVEN there are 3 degrees of glory, Celestial, Telestial, and Terestial (not sure if I spelled them right) Celestial is the highest degree of glory where ion order to get there you must live by all the rules and if you break one you must repent ASAP(basically).
Telestial is the second degree where you go if you obey most of the rules and repent most of the time.
Terestial is the third degree and you can get in there no matter what you do basically (unless you were extremely evil).
Now our take on HELL our take on Hell is basically you only go there if you are extremely evil (Hitler-like) or if you are Satan (Lucifer) himself or one of his ‘Original’ Followers in which case you never got a body and went straight to hell after the “war in heaven”.
That’s where according to our beliefs 2/3rds of the host of heaven were exiled becaue they sided with satan’s plan (make sure everyone does everything right and NOBODY will ever go bad, but he wanted all the credit) instead of Jesus’ plan which was to just guide people and let them have free agency and give people an ‘Out’ in case they sinned and give them a chance to be resurected.
Oh and instead of going straight to one of these levels when you die you wait around in a kind of ‘Spirit waiting room’ until judgement day where your fate is decided as to which level you are going to… there you have it the mormon belief in the afterlife in as small and simpe of a nutshell as possible I hope I didn’t bore you all to death, this took me a half hour to write…
It was interesting. No offense, but to me, that seems crazier than most other religious things.
none taken like I said, it’s not quite my cup o’ tea either…
Like 20% of teenagers who are members of Christianity have no faith in God of Jesus. Membership without Belief. Look it up.
exactly…