Good question. Here's a quote from a sidebar article from the Trib I just posted -- WhoIsHelenRadkeyAndWhyIsSheOutToGetTheLDSChurch? :
Mormons believe they have a spiritual mandate to offer the faith to those throughout human history who didn't have a chance to embrace it while they were alive.
Well, let's look at "what's wrong" over a few posts:
CONCERN #1:
It leads to billions of Lds man-hours being obsessed with the dead. I think we should be consumed with the living -- not the dead.
CONCERN #2:
It leads Mormons into thinking of themselves as "saviors" of the world, when in reality, we only have One, Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate this month. (He doesn't need false competitors):
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be THE Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14; cf. John 4:42).
(If you don't think Lds deem themselves as "saviors," then you've haven't been in touch with what their revered "prophets" have said through the years:
...we are the only people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;...we in fact are the saviours of the world..." (Lds "prophet" John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, vol.6, p.163).
"... mortals have to be saviors on Mount Zion, acting by proxy for the dead." (LDS "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, p. 325)
"We know something about our progenitors, and God has taught us how to be saviors for them by being baptized for them in the flesh, that they may live according to God in the Spirit." (LDS "prophet" John Taylor, March 20,1870, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 14, 3/20/1870)
When my Methodist minister gave me the good news of the Gospel he prayed with me and told me how fortunate that I was that he had saved me. Most evangelist are taught to save the world, that is that they dedicate their lives to. They and we all know that there is only one Savior of the world, the saviors on Mt Zion is flowery talk. The Mormons, at least the ones I know, don’t confuse themselves with The Savior.
As far as wasting their good time, who cares, it’s their time they are wasting. It doesn’t seem to be any of my business what they spend it on as long as they leave me alone.
I know Mormons, most of the ones I have met only have the most serious reverence for THE Savior. Personally I don’t care if they do think of themselves as saviors it has no effect on me. I say let them alone.
They like the rest of us will face God some day and He can judge them and their actions. It fortunately isn’t my job to do that.
As I look at your quotes I can see that they do this for totally unselfish reasons, all the more reason to leave it alone.