He has also never cured Peyronie's disease

Can God make a rock so big even HE can't lift it?

Can God devise a theological paradox so intractable that even HE
can't resolve it?

God cannot lie and remain God.
Yet he seems to be able to change his mind a lot.
Maybe God is a woman?

reminds me of that saying, God never heals amputees.

What about the people who die in explosions, bombs or massive fires? Is that any different from cremation or are they doomed for eternity too?

God can't do anything. He's failed every test and request I've given him.

Also those poor pinheads who think they act in God's behalf can't do anything either.

Religion, adeu!

Can God microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it? Seriously; Is there an LDS prohibition formal or informal, against cremation? I personally would love to be cremated when I die. But it's likely that my TBM fam will dress my cadaver in a baker's costume and bury me in a casket encased in a concrete vault. Expenses that could be better applied to the needs of the living! Of course I won't care. I'll be F-ing dead!



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The CHI says that the brethren aren't big fans of cremation, but that it's okay in places where it's required.

I don't know that there is a prohibition, but it is discouraged.

They would only dress you up if you are endowed and still a member.

I am a member of record, but not spirit. And yes, I know the handshakes.

Let me do you one better. Take my ashes and plant them in a garden. I am the soil, and then the plants, fruits, and vegetables. When I am used as the fuel to support a growing, new life, say, a fetus or a young child, who "gets" that matter in the resurrection? Matter (according to mormon doctrine) can't be created ex nihilo, so will I have to worry about stealing back the kidney of a young child?
Another piece of mormonism that never made sense.



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I have actually been told that cremated remains are harder for God to resurrect. I guess that remains that have rotted to dust are easier to reconstruct for some ridiculous reason. I don't know why God would go all Bartleby on us like that, refusing the more challenging tasks.

No worries, you go poof out of the urn like a genie. That is why my mother picked it.

to be used by medical students. Cremation will follow after use. I expect to have no problems getting to the next life (I personally believe there IS one), and I expect no chastisement when I get there.



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Ha! Older TBMs think you won't be resurrected as quickly if you're cremated. My MIL is extremely against cremation, something about coming forth in the 2nd resurrection, not the first, because god has to gather up all your pieces together first. She is aghast at the fact that dh insists on being cremated (fine by me, it's much cheaper). My father is against cremation too.

I've always thought it was so silly that TBMs thought this way, even when I was TBM. Do they not think about the millions of people that have died over thousands of years whose bodies are now literally dust?

So the people that were atomized in nuclear blasts won't be resurrected?

What about those eaten by animals?

It will all be sorted out in the next life, silly. Stop thinking already.

It is also not needed for your salvation (but neither is any of the other Moron crap)

There was no turning back. And that had to be some 40 years ago. Reading about what-all is done to bodies to prettify them for funerals so they won't smell bad and they will look more like they are just asleep than that they are DEAD. . .that did me in.

To me, cremation is the simplest, least expensive, and most earth-friendly way there is. If Mormons have a problem with it, well, that's ANOTHER point in its favor!