Posted on 12/21/2017 7:47:05 PM PST by NRx
Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 Holocaust victims, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.
Baptisms have been attempted – but blocked – for Charles Manson, Stephen Paddock and Devin Patrick Kelley. Paddock was the gunman who killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 in Las Vegas in October. Kelley killed 25 and wounded 20 in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last month.
The grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg have also been baptised, despite church rules intended to restrict such ceremonies to the ancestors of church members. Ancestors of Kim Kardashian, Carrie Fisher, Joe Biden and John McCain were also baptised.
The researcher, Helen Radkey, is a former Mormon who left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the mid-1970s and was excommunicated after publicly criticising it. She was blocked from the baptisms section of the massive collection of genealogical records the Utah-based church makes available to the public through its website, familysearch.org, until she was given a login by a friend.
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I looked into my hat and saw that this is all true.
Ask any of my wives.
I can think of no other established religion that baptizes someone post mortem. I’ve never heard of Catholic’s doing this, or asking for it to be done.
I can see why a family of a miscarried child or victim of SIDS may want that to happen.
I found out that my late grandfather was baptized by the Mormons too, but I am sure he remained a Lutheran.
“Ancestors of Kim Kardashian, Carrie Fisher, Joe Biden and John McCain were also baptized.”
Now, that would be a party.
Back in college I had a room in a house. The land lady was mormon, and an older lady renter was new age. One day the new-ager said she had visited me in my dreams through her spirit-walker or something. I told her “Don’t EVER do that again!” (Funny though - she said I would be a preacher. I DID preach one sermon 30 years later!).
I’m thinking now I should have told the mormon gal (GREAT lady!!) not to baptize me. Although she was quite a bit older than me - so hopefully I’ll outlive her.
Let them have their rituals. It is meaningless. I can’t get all worked up if a group wants to do this as long as they are not harming anyone. My relationship with Jesus Christ and my salvation is not threatened by whatever this group or anyone else does. In the same vein I do not understand why atheists get all worked up over prayer or religion in the public square. If they are so sure there is no God then what difference does it make to them? I think they are not very secure in their unbelief.
Never understood why people get so upset over this.
If the Mormons are wrong, it didn’t matter to begin with.
If the Mormons are right, we got a free ticket to Heaven.
Personally, I just laugh at it.
I am positive Grandpa wouldn’t have cared for this, but I wonder what difference it made to him in the afterlife. No more coffee in heaven, etc.?
Speaking of Paddock I guess the LV LEOs must have things just about wrapped up, eh?
I just thought they were nuts.
Sick dangerous bastards.
No coffee - but more wives?? (That could be good or bad!)
Good friends and neighbors of ours are Mormons. We were in Idaho and stopped by their mom’s house. She offered me coffee. I laughed and said “Is this a trick?”
“Oh no! I know you like coffee, so I’ll brew you some if you would like.”
I said sure - but what will the others think?
She said she had already had that discussion when one of their Bishops saw the coffee maker and coffee. She told him that it was HER house, and she wanted to be a good hostess to her non-mormon friends, and she was going to serve them coffee if they wanted it. And if Joseph wasn’t going to let her into heaven for being nice - well so be it. And if it bothers you that much, well you are free to leave.
She was one lovely, and feisty gal! While I don’t care for their make-believe religion, most mormons I have met are GREAT people.
That was thoughtful of her. I haven’t had much experience with Mormons except for a couple of brief visits to Utah. I had a good impression of the people I ran into there. Of course, I outed myself whenever I stopped at a gas station for coffee and smokes.
One time I was at my parents’ house and a couple of young Mormon missionaries came to the door. I stepped out to see what they wanted and they asked me if I was open to the idea of a new prophet. I said no, and that could have ended the discussion except I explained that as a Christian I believed the revelation of Christ was complete, without the need for anything further. We had a nice conversation.
Mormons baptize the dead and Catholics pray to dead mortals instead of using the direct line to God the Father that Jesus set up....go figure on what tom-foolery them religions will produce.....
You are misinformed.
Catholics do not “pray to dead humans instead of using the direct line to God the Father.”
Please keep this correction in mind on future threads.
False witness us still a sin.
Thank you.
IS STILL A SIN.
Freaks. Cult.
Queen Mother? The Queen of England? How odd.
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