# Those Wacky Mormons and rebaptising (Not a repeat...its a whole new can of worms) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581 "2003-12-07T18:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581/101 "2003-12-10T02:40:26Z")
I appreciate your answer **Guinastasia** but I would like it if **emarkp** could give his/her take on my question. I thought someone said last page that they were indistinguishable from other members on the deceased rolls but of course now I can’t find it. :wally ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581/102 "2003-12-10T04:09:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > **It’s not enough that I have to deal with unsolicited attempts to convert me to mormonism in life, now I have to deal with this shit in death as well.** That’s what gets me – for as obnoxious as non-Mormon Christian proselytizers can be, at least they don’t make presumptions that their flavor of religion is so damned yummy that even the dead must be implored to take a little taste. It’s so arrogant I find it hard to be civil about it. Faith is an affirmative thing, but it’s also a very personal thing. This idea of “just in case” is so conceitedly presumptuous I can’t understand how anyone could look at it generously. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581/103 "2003-12-10T04:38:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by emarkp \* > \*\*And you still haven’t said why. Do you dislike it even when nothing is known at all about the religious beliefs of a person? Very important question: would you feel it insulting and disrespectful to attempt to proselytize someone who had suffered nearly to the point of death for their faith? If a Jew had been permanently crippled because he was a Jew–if he’d been only able to cling to life by asking passers-by for their assistance, and all this because he would not deny the Torah-- would it have been disrespecful for Peter to have said, “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee”? \*\* Yes. Yes, incredibly disrespectful and rude. How would YOU feel? Say you were a Mormon back in the day of serious persecution; do you honestly think you’d have given up your faith on the spot because some mainstream Christian was nice instead of abusive in his conversion attempt? Seems to me that a bunch of Mormons hung on no matter what happened to them… Look. If I want to know about your religion, WHATEVER that religion is, I’ll find YOU. And if I’m DEAD, then you may safely assume that it’s not your problem anymore – not that it ever was, since I’ve no interest whatsoever in converting. Really. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581/104 "2003-12-10T05:09:28Z")
Imagine yourself enjoying a wonderful dinner with your beautiful girlfriend, its a delicous rissoto of wild mushrooms topped with parmesan shavings and you are sipping a glass of delicous burgundy that perfectley compliments the meal. Suddenley the phone rings, you get up, already slightly miffed, and answer. Its a jaunty sounding fellow and he’s offering low, low, prices on double glazing that they [the company] _believes_ will save you money on your heating and also add value to your house not to mention make it look absolutley spiffing plus there is absolutley nothing to pay until the year 2004. You, quite rightly, tell him to stick his phone up his ass and piss off as if you had wanted his amazing double glazing you would have come to him at your leisure and at a more convenient time. Now picture this: you are in paradise sat next to a babbling brook in a splendid, tranquil forest playing chess with Ghandi whilst sipping from a glass of heavenley nectar and nibbling on a plate of pan fried manna, suddenley out of no where a couple of Mormons appear and start telling you about a once in an afterlifetime offer, thats right you can join their religion! Would you not feel inclined to slap them both upside the head? I’m pretty sure that Ghandi would even help you out with giving them a good shoeing. Heavenly telemarketing, thats what I calls it. It boils down, in my opinion, that Mormons _believe_ that what they are doing is right and helpful. What if someone else_believes_ that their dog is talking to them and telling them to shoot the Prime Minister because it will save the world from damnation? I know its a bit extreme but I can’t help but see it that way, interfering with other people even if it is done in the spirit of good is just plain annoying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-mormons-and-rebaptising-not-a-repeat-its-a-whole-new-can-of-worms/217581.md?page=5)