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VZ Gardner
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Date: November 29, 2017 04:26PM
VZ Gardner Wrote:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead>
> > #Genealogy_and_baptism
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> While it’s routinely accepted that Joseph Smith,
> Jr. was an egomaniacal philandering cheat who
> over-stretched his intellectual legs and got
> practically every Biblical interpretation wrong,
> the requirement for proxy baptism was one of his
> most colossal blunders. Rather than being one of
> the most merciful/charitable doctrines, it’s
> easily the most insidiously deceptive one.
>
> Except for keeping many devout Mormons comatosely
> infatuated with scouring records for names of
> “damned” ancestors and spawning the erection
> of obscenely pricey albeit useless edifices that
> are nothing more than huge multi-million dollar
> billboards, the notion that a loving Heavenly
> Father would demand corporeal ceremonies performed
> by living substitutes before allowing most of his
> dead children into his Kingdom is a benchmark of
> gullibility.
>
> Of course, it’s no more absurd than anything
> else Mormons feel they must do to keep their
> capricious SkyDaddy™ happy; it’s just so
> damnably pointless and massively wasteful.
Damn and blast; they keep deleting my special edit...