Interesting article in today's London Daily Mail (web edition) on Mitt Romney and baptism for the dead. Seems Ann Romney's father, a confirmed atheist, was baptized in the Salt Lake Temple shortly after his death.

I got on there and there are the usual pro-Mormon comments along with some comments that more or less agree that Mormons are wack jobs. What really bothered me is that you can rate a comment pro or con, and it looks like Mormons have been on that site like crazy, giving a thumbs up to all comments that either support Mormonism or say religion isn't important in an election. Anything against Mormonism has a thumbs down rating. You can rate comments without registering - everyone should get on and give a thumbs up to comments that expose Mormonism and a thumbs down to the dumb apologetic crappola.

yeah but........... no one with any sense takes a daily fail article seriously, let alone the comments section.

daily fail readers are generally known for being carpet munching, xenophobic and slightly to the right of 'Attila the Hun'.

What you say has an element of truth but remember the article is about Romney's Mormonism and not politics. Regardless of its political leaning, the Daily Mail has a huge circulation in comparison with American newspapers as a whole and those readers are hearing something about Mormonism that they might not perhaps have known.

I think the Daily Mail website is the most popular newspaper site in the UK.

I just looked up the DM and it has the most popular news website in the world.

Attila the Hun? You remind me of my favorite nickname for Margaret Thatcher the school milk snatcher: Attila the Hen.

EssexExMo Wrote:
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> yeah but........... no one with any sense takes a
> daily fail article seriously, let alone the
> comments section.
>
> daily fail readers are generally known for being
> carpet munching, xenophobic and slightly to the
> right of 'Attila the Hun'.

Ah. You'll be a *Grauniad reader, EssexExMo? ;oD

*Me too. As it happens.

Thank you Kentish, I've added a comment.



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The "likes" are certainly in our favour now.

It's OK, we've baptised Mit Romney into the pagan religion.

- Helen, Colchester, 29/1/2012 10:59

and also make a comment on the story on the Daily Mail website, too.

I'd love it if some hard-line evangelical church started purposefully proxy baptising dead Mormons into its church in a similar style ceremony. Can you imagine how up in arms TBMs would be regardless of being told "they can still choose to accept it or not". A taste of one's own medicine comes to mind.

I've had an idea for a while to have a website where you could do excommunications for the dead. You just need to get volunteers to sin, for and on behalf of ________________, who is dead. Exmos and others who resent their ancestors baptisms could submit their names to my website along with a favorite "sin" if it's known, (like drinking too much scotch) and one of our volunteers would pour themselves a scotch and before they drink it say

I, sherlock, drink this scotch, for and on behalf of Uncle Fester, who is dead, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

Then, you drink the scotch and Uncle Fester no longer is worthy of his temple recommend and free from Mormon heaven. I hope someone steals this idea from me because I'm too busy to do it myself but would happily perform the ritual for any and all tea drinkers and rum and coke fans.

>I'm not surprised at all. I baptized a pet squirrel once after he died. He's waiting for me on the other side. I was screaming, "DON'T GO TOWARD THE LIGHT". But it was all too late

- resident, somewhere in America, 29/1/2012

:oD

"The Mormons have been baptising on behalf of the dead for well over a hundred years..." That is true, Sue. But it still does not lessen the potential insult to the memory of the person concerned and the hurt it could cause to the living family members.

+1,000,000!!!

It wasn't me but I wish it had been! LOL!

sherlock Wrote:
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> I'd love it if some hard-line evangelical church
> started purposefully proxy baptising dead Mormons
> into its church in a similar style ceremony. Can
> you imagine how up in arms TBMs would be
> regardless of being told "they can still choose to
> accept it or not". A taste of one's own medicine
> comes to mind.

That idea was the theme of an interesting novel published in 2009 written by K. Thomas Murphy, "End of Grace." The plot involved a scheme to notify the survivors of recently deceased Mormons that their departed loved ones belonged to a false church and have been posthumously baptized into the true church. It becomes so widespread that it sharply decreases LDS church revenue.

A good thriller-type novel, which unfortunately has some misrepresentations of some details of Mormonism.

You can read 20 reviews (mostly favorable) at amazon dot com

And these are the guys who accuse gays of recruiting!

Good one! :-)

Something we need to think about. A mormon dead dunks somene and the family of the deseased are angry about it but Mormons say a dead person can choose those ordanences for themselves well... Isnt that like saying only the mormons beliefs are vallied and the whole argument that after death no one else should worry because that persons dead kind of hints at there being moremon heaven to them or notohing no other belief systems where a dead person might get miffed and whats happening with thair name and thair memory.