Re: As a matter of interest (was Re: Vatican trying to avoid baptism by proxy)

"JJ206" <jj206@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Lesley Robertson wrote:
>> Just out of idle interest, how many of the people who claim to be so 
>> mortally offended by the religious activities on the LDS are actively 
>> using the IGI and the other genealogical sources provided by the LDS, 
>> despite the fact that the main reason for this enormous genealogical 
>> effort is in order that their ancestors can be retrospectively 
>> "baptized"?
>
> Just pretend that you are in heaven sipping on a really good strawberry
> smoothie on a cloud and humming a happy tune with your family and
friends 
> chatting about the old adventures. Then pops in a serious LDS
> suit and you spill smoothie on your white clothes and he loudly
proclaims 
> "Hey, would you like to be baptised Mormon and move to this other cloud 
> and sip these other strawberry smoothies with total
> strangers ?
>
> You wouldn't be "mortally" offended because you are already dead, but
you 
> might be "spiritually" offended. And the devil would laugh every time it

> happens.
>
> Perhaps if you were in hell, and the same question was asked, then maybe

> you would be glad to jump at the chance to be baptized, but I doubt you 
> could hear the message over the noise of the meat grinders and volcano 
> explosions.

You sound like you believe that your long-dead ancestors will actually 
"feel" their names being recorded or "baptized" by the LDS researchers,
and 
might be offended by it.  And that those ancestors will forever more be 
considered Mormon by posterity.