Confirmed: Romney family had Ann Romney's atheist father posthumously baptized into the Mormon...

Business Insider.com ^ | Jan. 27, 2012 | Jordan Teicher

[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."

[who knows what evil?]

Guess the dead have no say in the matter...that’s just flat-out weird, not to mention disrepectful.

[Elsie]

Luke 16:19-31

New King James Version (NKJV)

 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.  But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,  desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.  So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.  And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’  But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.  And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’

“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,  for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’  Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’  And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’  But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”

But I am SURE that MORMONism has restored the MISSING verse 31A:

 "But thine soul mayest have hope, for thine suffering shall not last, but be relieved after TRUE Christians give you anOTHER chance, in many OTHER Temples to be built the world 'round."

 

 

 

Yeah... THAT's the ticket!

[Elsie]

Dang!

You’ve beaten me to all of it!

(I should stay up later...)

[catfish1957]

Actually familysearch.org

[Elsie]

And that in itself is despicable

 

You are DESPICABLE!

 

[ejonesie22]

Do we have a new player?

[Elsie]

[ejonesie22]

Yes. Yes I do.

Now can I have some sort of arrogant, cocky retort? Seems to be your style and fits in with Romneybots, Mormons and their defenders...

[Elsie]

Not for long; iff’n he don’t calm down!

OBviously not called to mission; for they LEARN to take all them doors slammed in their faces.

[Elsie]

Seems to be your style and fits in with Romneybots, Mormons and their defenders...

a Defender is to Shrek as a Flying Inman is to Donkey.

[ejonesie22]

just plain southern stupid?

I know the post was removed, as such tripe should be, but “plan southern stupid?”

Really?

[Tennessee Nana]

ROFLMBO

Wee Willie Mitty jumpin on Oprah “Every Path Leads To God” Winfrey’s couch

:)

[ejonesie22]

I am still laughing about the “southern stupid” bit...

As we say down hear in ‘ssippi, “My my, well just bless his little heart”...

[ejonesie22]

I am still laughing about the “southern stupid” bit...

As we say down hear in ‘ssippi, “My my, well just bless his little heart”...

[OldEagle]

"Guess the dead have no say in the matter..."

So is it wrong to ask if Ho Chi Minh is now a Mormon?

[ejonesie22]

Well if they dunked ole’ Adolf...

[svcw]

Nice points.
Great commission into the grave commission - brilliant.

[OldEagle]

Good one! Do think they did?

[svcw]

Yea, I do. IT’S NOT BIBLICAL.