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

Charani wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 09:38:06 +0200, 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, depsite the  fact that the main reason for this
>> enormous genealogical effort is in order  that their ancestors can
>> be retrospectively "baptised"?
> 
> I'm not mortally offended but I don't agree with the LDS baptising or
> offering to baptise my ancestors inc my father, as Mormons.  They
> wouldn't have agreed in life, so they wouldn't agree in the afterlife
> either.
> 
> It's a particularly complex situation for me because one of my cousins
> is a Mormon!  I find it hard to comprehend why he thinks he's got the
> right, moral or otherwise, to baptise us into his church.  It's not
> something I agree with at all.
> 
> It's like Jonathan says: some people are shocked that others will walk
> (or ski) across graves.  It's all down to respect for the dead.  I
> avoid walking on graves and have taught my children not to do so.  If
> I do have to step on one, I apologise to the occupant :))
> 
> I rarely use the IGI or any of their other genealogical resources
> unless I have no other option, such as the fiche of the parish
> registers at the record office because the originals won't be
> produced.

all religions are an illusion
"the opium of the people"

just a game human beings play each according to their local rules

Hugh W



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