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Date: February 18, 2012 01:23PM
bignevermo Wrote:
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/16/explainer> -how-and-why-do-mormons-baptize-the-dead/?hpt=hp_t
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“Every person matters. Perhaps it is this feeling that prompts millions to seek out their family history. For most, records of their ancestors provide key links to their past.”
https://indexing.familysearch.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf?3.12.1Think about it! How far back are Mormon temple workers prepared to go to do this work of dead dunking? To Lucy? To Arid? Most studies in cultural anthropology show that relational ties are maintained for about three generations of ancestors and three generations of descendants, with the “speaker” in the middle.
The image that information produces of the Mormon family tree, if they plan to do temple work for all of their ancestors, is of an ever widening, ever branching tree and, presumably, would eventually entail all people ever born. The idea of “families are forever” thus produces the image of a very crowded “family” that would no doubt include some pretty hairy characters. Kinda hard to hold a family reunion with this bunch!