It bothers me in much the same way as it would if someone where to dig her up and make flutes of her bones. Her bones are not her. They are nothing more than something that was once a part of her. But to treat them in such a fashion would be to disrespect her.
Likewise she expressed her wishes very explicitly, regarding whether any posthumous work should be done. Her thoughts and wishes are at least as much (and in my opinion more) an integral part of her as her bones. And for some busy body bitch who never took the time to talk to her while she was alive, to force her into an eternal marriage with a man who abused her in life, is as big slap in her face as I can think of. And all my family members, including those that are bishops in the LDS church, were quite offended.
These are not prayers to the Mormons, these are deeply important and significant rituals. They represent religious conversion, marriage, and the like.
Well, as a counterpoint, as an ex-Mormon, I couldn’t care less if they rebaptize me posthumously. Hell, they can seal me to Joseph Smith while they’re at it.
Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and George Carlin have all been baptized posthumously Mormon. Does that MEAN anything? Of course not. Someone mentioned their names and birthdates while doing a bunch of mumbojumbo in a temple. It’s literally castles in the air.
Frankly, it’s sad that my parents are wasting several hours a week in their twilight years doing this crap, but it doesn’t mean a thing to Og, born ?, died ?, sealed to Ug.
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Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and George Carlin have all been baptized posthumously Mormon. Does that MEAN anything?
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It means the Mormon afterlife has the potential for one helluva sitcom. I’m imagining those three along with perhaps Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Todd Lincoln and Patsy Cline all being introduced in madcap antics to the theme song of FRIENDS.
“No one told you the afterlife was gonna be this way…”
True, but my mom has been assigned a shift every week. She has to report to the temple at 5:30 am EVERY Friday. If she can’t make it, she has to find someone to cover her shift. As it’s so early, she has a hard time finding anyone to cover her. She plans her vacations around this. (She’ll leave on Friday afternoon and come back by Thursday.) That’s sad to me.
This is a “volunteer”, unpaid position, by the way.
Sure, nothing would happen if she didn’t show up, but she believes her eternal soul is at stake. Mormons often exploit old people this way, for free labor. It’s not criminal, but it’s sad and annoying.
I meant to add that I think I misread the site and that L. Ron Hubbard is listed as one of the few famous people NOT baptized. But I would seriously be surprised if no one had ever submitted his name.
Maybe the Mormon Church scrubs names off its records of leader of other religious groups like popes and Billy Graham.