Guess I just don’t get the point of it. After all, God knows the difference.
It’s as if the act itself, independent of the will, intentions or even existence of the person, is some sort of alchemical, magical act.
My seventh great grandfather came to this continent in the seventeenth century. A branch of the family became Mormon in the mid-nineteenth century. He’s been baptized by proxy, dead dunked, whatever you want to call it, so many timesm now with so many errors, birth dates ranging over a century, same for death, wrong locations ... probably about ten entries, only one of which is even remotely correct.
Whatever the intent, they shot a brick on that one, missed him by a country mile.
I don’t understand why people get upset.
If the Mormon god is false, then it’s all a lie anyway. If the Mormon god is true, we should be happy for the assist.
If you don’t believe in it, why should you care? It’s not like YOU violated YOUR faith with this. Lighten up. God knows the difference.