WFcatamount22
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Based on their ACTIONS. What they did was immoral and was directed from the top levels of the church.
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Based on their ACTIONS. What they did was immoral and was directed from the top levels of the church.
Ancestry.com is run by Mormons to. Mormons are solid people nice people, no need to hate based on faith here.
It's the ruling body of the faith and of a faith who uses ruling bodies extensively. The father of one of the guys we played ball with for years was on the committee that oversaw where people on their missions. Yes, your concepts of rewarding and punishing for the destinations of the faithful does exist.
Baptism of the dead is an accepted tenet of the religion.
"BYU Religious Studies professor Randy Bott has suggested that God denied the priesthood to black men in order to protect them from the lowest rung of hell, since one of few damnable sins is to abuse the exercise of the priesthood. Bott compared the priesthood ban to a parent denying young children the keys to the family car, stating: "You couldn’t fall off the top of the ladder, because you weren’t on the top of the ladder. So, in reality the blacks not having the priesthood was the greatest blessing God could give them."
Are many Mormons good people? Of course, but that doesn't excuse many of the rules of the religion.
I never said anything like that.
Also on Wednesday, the church released a letter reiterating its policy that “without exception, church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims.”
In proxy baptism, a living Mormon immerses himself or herself in a baptismal font on behalf of a dead person. A church spokesman, Michael Otterson, said Friday that the ritual was done in the spirit of love, and that people’s souls were free not to become Mormons.
“The sentiment is one of inclusiveness and reaching out, that God loves all his children,” Mr. Otterson said. “We make this offering to them, and they have the agency in the next life to accept or reject the offering.”
Church policy is that people baptize only their own dead relatives, hence the baptism of Anne Frank and Mr. Pearl both violated church policy. According to Mr. Otterson, the Mormon who baptized Anne Frank intentionally misused the church’s Internet-based software.
“With Anne Frank,” Mr. Otterson said, “this person tried to enter the name, found it was rejected, then created a duplicate record and falsified information to submit the record. And our system didn’t catch it.”
He said the perpetrator’s account had been suspended.
Long story short, she's my Dad's biological cousin (and thus, actually my second cousin) and has all but confirmed who my biological Grandfather is! Now, I need to forge some connections on the maternal side.
Are many religious people good people? Of course, but that doesn't excuse many of the rules of their religion.
Who cares if others have been worse? It's totally irrelevant to what they have done.
Since RJ brought up the MORMON thing. I found something out about the MORMON faith that is unlike any faith I know. If you walk by a church, synagogue, temple, mosque or other house of faith, people welcome you to come in any see the facility or join their ceremony. Non-MORMONS are NOT allowed inside MORMONTemples.
This is even weirder when you consider every MORMOM is supposed spend two years converting people to their faith.
I consider MORMOMS slightly above Scientologists.
When your "institution" is founded on racism and sexism, that "institution" doesn't deserve respect. The only reason the MORMONS theoretically gave up polygamy was to get Utah into the US. There are STILL many MORMONS who practice polygamy. It took being scared about losing their non-profit status to change their racial bigotry in the late 70s. Then, the church attacked Jews. SORRY, their history is filed with sketchy actions taken by their leaders.
There aren't many good people who are MORMONS, and their church is despicable. The way they treat Non-WHITES is disgraceful.