Posted on 01/27/2012 8:11:10 PM PST by Colofornian
After wondering aloud yesterday whether the Romneys converted Mitt's dead father-in-law to Mormonism...Yes. They did.
Edward Davies, Ann Romney's father, was an atheist who was also strongly anti-religion. By the time he died, he was the only member of Ann Romney's immediate family to not convert to Mormonism.
Fourteen months later, in 1993, he was baptized in a special ceremony at a Salt Lake City church. This practice requires a living person who has already been baptized to undergo the immersion in water again on behalf of the dead. No word on who this person might have been in Davies' case.
Information on the ceremony was listed on a genealogical database, and another entry on Ancestry.com detailed a separate sealing ceremony that linked Davies to his wife in death...
Baptism of the dead is encouraged by the Church of Latter-day Saints, as it is seen as essential to salvation. But the LDS Church has been criticized for it often. After coming under fire in 1995, the Church agreed to stop baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims posthumously. It had already added tens of thousands to its baptism registry by that time.
Romney's faith has done little to damage his quest for the presidency so far. But the issue pops up once in a while, most recently after Romney's tax returns showed a $4.1 million donation to the Church. There's also evidence to suggest that anti-Mormon sentiment could have given votes to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina.
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."
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clever and funny
Yes they did.
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!
I’m never surprised when someone in a cult carries out cultic rituals.
“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.
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.”
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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.
I’m pretty sure Mormons do this for everybody.
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They do. Popes, Hitler, Jesus Christ, Elvis.
It IS crazy and insane for the Mormons to think they are saviors of men.
Want quotes?
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]
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That is a policy that is never enforced either.
GOT A PROBLEM WITH IT?
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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.
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.
Both ancestry.com and familysearch.com are owned by the LDS church.
Genealogy *buffs* might appreciate the LDS services, but serious genealogists don’t accept any documentation from there.
The wording is different but the intent is the exact same.
sigh...
The site is run and maintained by the LDS they use the info to baptize the dead
LOL I just spit coffee on my monitor
No it is run by the LDS too as is rootsweb
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