Saw this comment about Romney's Libya remarks on another site ...

[markpkessinger]

...

"Romney's campaign is so dead he'll soon be baptizing it."

Snorted coffee on that one!

[Blue Belle]

1. !!

Hahahahahha!

[dimbear]

2. Comedy gold! Mitt can't buy a break, and with his money that's astonishing. n/t

[The Old Creak]

23. Awesome

There's a song in that line!

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Hee!

[skeewee08]

4. Too funny

[amandabeech]

5. Whoever posted this cites the wrong Christian rite.

It should be, "Romney's campaign is so dead that he'll soon be requesting last rites."

Last rites or final prayers are what Christian priests and pastors do to someone who is minutes away from death.

Baptism in some Christian Churches happens a few weeks or months after birth or when an adult accepts Christ as his or her saviour.

I wonder who posted the original.

[Lucy Goosey]

7. Mormons baptize the dead. Thats the joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead

[amandabeech]

12. Got it. Duh.

[Laelth]

34. I didn't know that.

Thanks for enlightening me.

-Laelth

[tk2kewl]

8. mormons have been know to posthumously baptize folks

[markpkessinger]

9. The joke is about the Mormon practice of baptizing the dead . . .

. . . So no, they did not post the "wrong Christian rite," but rather the correct Mormon rite.

[rsweets]

10. mormans are known to baptize dead people

I not sure of specifics... but the get names (birth certs) of
dead people and baptize them into the lds church ... they get
heaven point's for each one.

[Freddie]

14. That's why the Mormon Church has some of the best ancestry records in the US

Seriously-- they're keeping track of everyone they baptised posthumously!

[markpkessinger]

29. I've seen the records they have of my family . . .

. . . And they have it royally fucked up.

[freshwest]

32. Me, too. They 'baptized' some of my Quaker ancestors born here 4 centuries ago.

The Mormons were not a religion then, but their theology decided they had been around for a lot longer. Must be where Romney got that 'retroactive' thing. My people became retroactively Mormon, but weren't alive to object. Strange things that people believe.

[barbtries]

35. i think you meant

"were not" a religion then?
not trying to be anal but i had to google the age of the mormon church after that.

[freshwest]

36. Yes, you're right, I was sleepy. I knew the Mormons started much later. Sorry I made you google!

[barbtries]

37. no problem

i'm just supposed to be working! lol

[markpkessinger]

40. I mean the records themselves are messed up for my family ...

Incorrect lineages, missing generations, etc.

[freshwest]

42. I have the records of my family births, marriages and deaths back 422 years.

That's on my paternal line. On the maternal line, very little and I know some of that is because there were Cree and it appears they were relocated from the East Coast westward and not voluntarily, either. I thought to pursue that at one time, but since the living have passed on, as with many people, it's a waste of anyone's time. My brother's wife wanted some of that for her children and grandchildren, and I sent it all to her.

Back to my paternal line, one man had traveled back to Amsterdam 400 years ago to visit my great-great-etc. grandmother but the ship sank in an Atlantic storm on the return to the Americas. I have less useful records going back over 950 years. They have those old names that are a single word. I can't pronounce them, either.

Some places in the UK are named for them and one can be googled for the famous things he was part of and did in the Elizabethan era in London. Not that it has affected my life. Pictures of people of my name show the family resemblance. I discoveed strong patterns in the way they lived their lives and I've lived mine. My family never talked about it much, it was just a curiousity.

You could go to the Social Security Administration, and the US Census Bureau records. There's information on what properties were owned back to the founding of the country in the Census records and the SSA can research and find people. It's remarkable what they have.

[markpkessinger]

43. I have good records...

...my point was that the much-vaunted Mormon genealogical database is terribly inaccurate, at least so far as my family goes.

[freshwest]

44. Well, they are working on faith, you know. Too bad they bought up Ancestry.com, etc.

[Ilsa]

22. Baptism by proxy...

Someone stands in for and takes a dunk in the baptismal font.

[xxqqqzme]

39. Is that a mnimum wage job?

Baptism proxy? Do you have to wear a name tag?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Jennicut]

11. Maybe Mitt hopes to be "reborn again?"

I was baptized at 25. Not as much fun to have water poured on your head at that age.

[rsweets]

6. thanks ... i needed a laugh today

[smorkingapple]

13. LMAO!! Classic...

[rurallib]

15. the campaign is on the way to planet Kolub

[cbrer]

16. Mitt was dying, so he called his lawyer and CPA

As they were gathered around the death bed, they looked at Mitt and said they were touched that he wanted his last moments to be with them.

He said "Jesus died between two thieves, and I will too!

[Cleita]

17. That is funny.

Pathetic for Romney but funny.

[malaise]

18. Freaking brilliant

[Richard D]

19. I did snort coffee.

Well, tea, really.

[tomm2thumbs]

20. omg

priceless

[LiberalAndProud]

21. Zing!

[Cha]

24. That is Dead ON.

It's actually tragic that he got this far.

[Dalai_1]

25. Made my Day!

Thank you for posting this!

[JohnnyRingo]

26. Like they baptized Anne Frank and JFK?

They can do what they want with their cold dead campaign as long as they bury it deep.

[fleur-de-lisa]

27. I recently found out the Mormons posthumously baptized some of my ancestors . . .

uncovered this while doing research for family tree. I understand that they regularly baptize those of Jewish heritage. My mother thought this was kind of sweet, but I think it's insulting.

[Honeycombe8]

28. If it's from a freeper site, that's good. If it's from a liberal site, it's to be expected. nt

[stlsaxman]

30. anyone to credit it to? I'd love to share it with proper kudos...

it. is. perfect!

[PatrynXX]

31. fraid dad

is one in the crazy redstate.com world though. saying Mittens blew the socks off Obama today. oh bother. yeah another spat between him and myself. really sad when smart guys like my dad have fallen for this BS Like the Conservatives blew Mittens nuts off. not the Dems.

[Javaman]

33. That is a line someone could make serious money from.

[bayareaboy]

38. I have to say that DU folks ...

Have been good about LDS here.

Take a bow all of you DU folks.

It still is so different in so many ways from other religions. It is very different for us agnostics.

Now I guess I can say that to me it is pretty bizarre. it seems more like a country club than a church.

[Roy Rolling]

41. LOL