Apparently I'm not gettin' thru.
Maybe this fellow can explain it...
Posted on 03/30/2012 7:44:55 PM PDT by Colofornian
Thomas Jefferson’s most famous slave, and the mother of several of the third American president’s children, died in 1835...We don’t know when news of Joseph Smith’s... religious movement reached...where Sally Hemings spent most of her 62 years, as a house servant and eventually as Jefferson’s “paramour.” But even if Mormon missionaries had come to Monticello during Heming’s lifetime, they would, per the instructions of Smith himself, have worked first to convert the masters, and only then—with the masters’ permission—the slaves.
Heming’s chance to become a Mormon came much later, in a Mormon temple in Mesa, Ariz., 13 years after the church lifted the ban on full membership for people of African descent. On April 21, 1991, two members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints entered a baptismal font. One...proclaimed, “...I baptize you for and in behalf of Sally Hemings, who is dead.”
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After the recent furor over Mormon proxy baptism, this news about Hemings should surprise no one. We should...take it as a given that Mormons have baptized by proxy almost every famous person...even Elvis...[...a Jewish friend recently quipped to me, “Mormons can baptize dead Jews when Jews can circumcise live Mormons.”)
What is surprising is that the LDS Church, according to its Family Search registry, considers Hemings to be Thomas Jefferson’s wife. (One of two—the other of course being Jefferson’s legal wife, Martha...)
...Mormons not only believe in baptizing non-Mormons who have died—they also...“seal...” families so they can spend eternity together...
...the LDS church recognizes Hemings as Jefferson’s wife...I strongly suspected that Hemings and Jefferson had been posthumously sealed as husband and wife. I asked the LDS Church to confirm my hunch...the Church obliged: ...Hemings and...Jefferson, I was told, have been posthumously sealed as husband and wife in an LDS Temple...
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Apparently I'm not gettin' thru.
Maybe this fellow can explain it...
Apparently I’m not getting through. So what? So Mormons are wrong. So Mormons believe weird things. So do other people. Why obsess about Mormons?
Note, I’m not suggesting you shouldn’t point out crazy Mormon beliefs. I think it’s entertaining. I’m just wondering why you single them out. If you want to point out crazy religious beliefs, let’s not stop there. There’s lots of pickings to choose from.
WHAT?
We have one of those DECEIVED individuals running for PRESIDENT - THAT's why!!!
Okay. What would you like to pick?
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