Confirmed: Romney family had Ann Romney's atheist father posthumously baptized into the Mormon...

Business Insider.com ^ | Jan. 27, 2012 | Jordan Teicher

[svcw]

clever and funny

[ejonesie22]

Yes they did.

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

Put it where the sun doesn’t shine.

After reading some of your angry posts on this thread I decided to look into your posting history.

All of your posts are quite snotty and angry. Nothing informative, just bitter and reactionary.

I am not telling you not to post, and I can understand how difficult it can be to deal with people who have contrary thinking to yours, but dude, LIGHTEN UP!

[crosshairs]

It is an attempt for the living to offer the dead the opportunity to salvation as a Mormon. It offers hope for the living that their deceased relatives will be able to enter Heaven as a baptized Morman - nothing more.

That may be even more rediculous than the concept of Purgatory.

[crosshairs]

I had to convert from Catholicism (and attended other denominations for a while) to non-denominational to get an understandable and simple idea of what our relationship with God is supposed to be. I also have trouble understanding why folks would want to pray to dead mortals (the Saints) when they have been given a direct path to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Or have masses specifically for the dead to spring them out of Purgatory (with the proper indulgences, of course) like they are some bail bondsmen.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I’m never surprised when someone in a cult carries out cultic rituals.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“GOT A PROBLEM WITH IT?”

Only that it is bogus and has no effect other than to make the fake baptizer wet...
but to each the hobby that brings him pleasure.

[reaganaut]

When Newsweek asked Romney whether he had performed any proxy baptisms in the past, Romney responded “I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

- - - - -
More dissembling. He didn’t mention that most LDS ‘baptisms for the dead” are performed by teenagers.

A better question would have been when was the last time you did “Endowments” or “Sealings” for the dead? Those are what adult members who have already been through themselves do, not baptisms.

[reaganaut]

I’m pretty sure Mormons do this for everybody.

- - - -
They do. Popes, Hitler, Jesus Christ, Elvis.

http://famousdeadmormons.com/

[reaganaut]

It IS crazy and insane for the Mormons to think they are saviors of men.

Want quotes?

[reaganaut]

but said it was “counter to [LDS] Church policy for a church member to submit names for baptism for persons to whom they are not related.”[52]

- - - - -
That is a policy that is never enforced either.

[reaganaut]

GOT A PROBLEM WITH IT?

- - - - -
Yeah, it is stupid, the height of arrogance, and unbiblical. It is also an insult to the person, especially when they livd a life of faith, but Mormons don’t care, they just want the ‘brownie points’ for doing it.

I have a lot of problems with the Mormon church - having been one but most are much bigger that BFTD.

[reaganaut]

The reason Ancestry.com encourages non-LDS to use the site and submit info is specifically to get more info to do their temple work for the dead (Baptism, endowments, sealings).

Also, beware, Mormons are notoriously sloppy when submitting info. I found that out when I took a semester long genealogy class at BYU.

[reaganaut]

Both ancestry.com and familysearch.com are owned by the LDS church.

[EDINVA]

Genealogy *buffs* might appreciate the LDS services, but serious genealogists don’t accept any documentation from there.

[bonfire]

The wording is different but the intent is the exact same.

sigh...

[StPaulRevert]

The site is run and maintained by the LDS they use the info to baptize the dead

[StPaulRevert]

LOL I just spit coffee on my monitor

[StPaulRevert]

No it is run by the LDS too as is rootsweb