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.
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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.
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.
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 elsebelieves 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.