If Mormons can convert non-mormons after death I have decided to convert all their dead prophets

[rbrnmw]

To the church of reality

http://www.churchofreality.org

[zbdent]

1. convert them to Atheism ...

and really eff up their system ...

[rbrnmw]

2. Seems fair to me after all

They baptized John Lennon and George Carlin after death

edit and Karl Marx

[Bigmack]

5. Just Fuckin' Great! Carlin....?

They had to pick on Carlin after he was dead.... he'd have massacred them if he was still alive.

[rbrnmw]

6. yes those bastards

http://famousdeadmormons.com/

there are tons they "converted" after death

[white_wolf]

14. Okay, they baptized Pope John Paul II.

If I was a Catholic, I"d find that extremely offensive. Oh, and Stalin's on the list too. Do they just baptize every famous person they can think of?

[rbrnmw]

18. yes it appears they do

The have no shame

[Edweird]

3. I was thinking Church Of Satan myself.

[Tikki]

4. Honestly...we need like a Burning Man thing were we take back...

all the sh*t placed on our dead ancestors.

Many cultures revere their departed family members
and would do anything to protect their memory.

This mormon thing is disrespectful and contemptuous.

Tikki

[rbrnmw]

7. Very offensive

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. LOL

[Tikki]

10. Hey GPV...just Grand to see you here...

Bet you're digging the new digs

I don't understand why this church would purposely hurt the
feelings of the families of departed people.

Is it like a control thing?

I am betting other religions find this just wrong.

Tikki

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. We surely are! *hugs* I think it is a control thing, although it's

like the evangelicals who are always trying to convert the living, I think ultimately they _think_ they are doing "the right thing" rather than acting out of malice. At least most of them, anyway.

[white_wolf]

13. One of my brother's whole family are Mormons.

If any of them outlive me, I should probably put something in my will telling them not to baptize me.

[LiberalFighter]

21. I would suggest several possibilities

1) If they baptize you anything willed to them will require them to return and the estate donates to a charity that offends them.

2) If they baptize you then they must submit to being baptized into the Muslim faith. Or just have it arranged by someone in the estate to baptize them.

3) If they baptize you then have the estate arrange for the estate to call them for 90 days and let them know it is time to face Mecca and pray before each time allotted.

[HockeyMom]

11. In my genealogy search,

I think someone in the LDS church may have baptized my Grandfather. Knowing Grandpa, I don't think he would have cared if he was baptized by a Morman, Protestant, or Catholic. He wasn't religious at all, until his dying day,

[wandy]

12. I still think the lot of you are makeing this up. nt

[white_wolf]

15. Baptizing for the dead is real. Whether that list posted above is accurate, I don't know.

Here is the Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead

[metalbot]

17. I don't think most people on this site understand posthumous baptisms

The mormon posthumous baptism doesn't "convert" a non-mormon to the LDS church, even according to LDS doctrine.

Essentially, the church teaches that in order to enter the "good heaven", you need to be baptized. Since most people never had the opportunity to be baptized, Mormons perform a baptism by proxy, in which the deceased are OFFERED a baptism, which they are free to accept or decline in the afterlife.

I don't see why people are so offended by this. They are basically doing for the dead what the missionaries do every day. After a baptism by proxy, it's not as if there are a bunch of Mormons in the temple high-fiving each other saying "We got another one!"

[rbrnmw]

19. Because they have no right to do it that's why

Leave other faiths or non faiths alone

[Tikki]

23. "Since most people never had the chance to be baptized"...You have got to be kidding me...

..the mormon missionaries are every where.


Tikki

[Major Nikon]

24. Wasn't it enough pulling this crap while you're alive?

They peddle around on their bicycles in their wal-mart slacks and ties banging on your door at 9am on a fuckin Saturday shoving pamphlets in your face. As if this weren't bad enough, now they have to bug the shit out of you when yer dead? Fuck that. Leave the dead alone.

And yes, it is offensive. Damn offensive even. It's an insult to anyone who doesn't share their beliefs. I don't have to understand it, nor do I care to. It's all nutty hocus pocus bullshit as far as I'm concerned.

[rbrnmw]

25. yeah and if you are even remotely polite to them

they will hound your ass until you move. Then when you die they still wanna give you a chance to convert fuck that leave me and my dead ancestors the hell alone

[Major Nikon]

26. I had to threaten to turn the dogs out on them a few months ago

...after I say "not interested" for the third time, my patience starts to slip.

Had I done so, I think the worst they would have gotten was paw prints on their white shirts from my border collies wanting to play.

[rbrnmw]

27. Great article

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-14686-rabble-rouser-helen-.html

[customerserviceguy]

28. Good point

To me, it's no different from a Catholic saying a prayer for the soul of a deceased Jewish friend. No harm, no foul, unless they rub your surviving relatives' noses in it. As I recall, the Mormon church doesn't do that.

It's just a silly little ritual to please an invisble skyfather who doesn't really exist in the first place.

[dimbear]

20. I just want to convince living ones to stop persecuting gays and other minorities.

Not much to ask.

[Douglas Carpenter]

22. I care about the policies Romney would implement as President. I care what people he would appoint

to the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous other positions. I care about the direction he would lead the country. I don't care about his religious beliefs that have no effect on me or anyone else.