(and that's rarely a good thing)
Yet all of that is sanctioned by posters like you...because apparently many don't raise a peep to the Mormon Church about that. (Why not?)
Only, and religiously hypocritically on your part, is some zeal apparently objectionable.
Secondly, Lds spend MILLIONS of man-hours researching the dead & $millions in doing that -- and baptizing the dead...and you call this little "back room" operation of a few bucks "obsessive?" (You're hilarious on that count)
Finally, for the Son of God to take on baby form and dirty his diapers...all so that we would be saved by this Immanuel...and that He still is both God and man even now in eternity...now that's the kind of obsession we can all in this world appreciate: A God who actually is so jealous of us -- in the best sense of the word -- that He would send His Son to become man and die for us on the cross.
"14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God" (Exodus 34:14)
The root Hebrew words, btw, for "jealous" and "zealous" are the same.
And God's jealousy isn't tainted like man's; He has a right to creative ownership of us.
Merry CHRISTmas!
So you’re a defender of Joseph Smith.
Well, when you go to Hell, make sure you have a mouth full of spit, because when you meet him in the lake of fire, he’s going to be thirsty.
Still better than a DECEived or DECIEving MORMON!