Mormons -- what a fucked up cult they are :P

[corin91]

I'm not one to place too much credence on the maunderings of Bill Maher -- he is far too ready to accept 'woo', and has several times said anti-vac'er inanities. However, he is dead-on with his 'de-baptism' of Mitt Romney's father-in-law. And, personally, this is a revolting practice of the Mormon cult. At least xtianity, while it practices

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[merlinwon]

I Loved this clip!!! :)

Happy Sunday 2 ya!!

[kakoukorakos]

Mormons also were posthumously baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims and others by proxy. It's an extremely common practice in their church, all it takes is someone submitting the name of a dead person.

The "All About Mormons" episode of South Park explained Mormonism pretty well. The "Book of Mormon" play by Matt & Trey also sounds to be pretty good at satirizing what deserved to be satirized.

[corin91]

I'd say, not just satirised and ridiculed, but called out from the same position as James Randi takes with all of these 'psychics'. They are damaging the only 'real' thing that is left of whoever is getting this posthumous 'baptism' -- the memories of those who are still alive.

If I croak tomorrow, and someone goes to a psychic & they give all sorts of pablum messages from me 'on the other side' about peace and love and happiness in la-la land, that is an assault on the cantankerous curmudgeon I was. Personally I won't care -- I'll already by worm-food (or, more precisely, I'll be ashes fertilising the woods out back). But it assaults people's memories of me, for good or ill makes no difference. And the same applies to some bunch of idiots dressing up and 'baptising' me as a Mormon. I won't care -- I'll be dead. But to NOT see this as an assault on the memories of me (from those what care to remember I existed at all) is ludicrous.

Almost as ludicrous as the whole religion thing to begin with!