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Originally posted by sugar and spice
As I said before, they can get upset about whatever they want. However, nobody's come up with any valid reasons for being upset. I think the problem here is a misunderstanding of the Mormon religion, not the actual act being done. Many equate baptism with conversion, but that isn't the case here.
Mormons are not converting anyone.
They aren't actually digging people up and using their bodies for the baptism . . . thus why the necrophilia analogy isn't really applicable here.
They aren't violating anyone's belief system because they're not forcing people to become Mormons. (Their door-to-door sermonizing is much more intrusive than baptism by proxy.)
All that they're doing is invoking someone's name when they baptize someone else. Who cares? It doesn't affect the person being "baptized" in any way, shape or form. Chances are that even their descendents will never know about it -- for everyone that's posted in this thread, your ancestors probably HAVE been baptized Mormon.
There are plenty of things about Mormons that bother me far more than this. Their institutionalized racism, their mistreatment of women, the amount of money spent on building their (insanely gaudy) temples that could go towards more worthwhile goals, the hypocracy of Joseph Smith . . . but this is nothing, really.
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"Who cares?" Jews obviously.
Why? For many reasons mentioned in this thread.
-Rudey