Cidu Bill on Dec 21st 2011
As a show of class during the holiday season, the Ten Craziest Mormon Beliefs website has been created as a tool against Mitt Romney. Because what’s more American than demeaning your opponent by mocking his religion?
Now with all due respect toward everybody’s beliefs, is this somewhere any person of faith really wants to go? Seriously? Because, you know, one man’s belief is somebody else’s “crazy”: do I need to describe how my sister-in-law’s Italian family felt about my nephew’s bris?
(Let’s stipulate that some of you are atheists and that “well, all religions are just stupid” is not a constructive contribution to this discussion)
Filed in Fred Karger, Mitt Romney, Mormons, politics | 53 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Sep 3rd 2010
Many Jewish leaders are angry about the Mormon practice of posthumous baptism by proxy — specifically, ceremonies in which the names of Jewish Holocaust victims are used to offer the departed a chance to convert in the afterlife.
Now, I can understand calling people who participate in these ceremonies arrogant, insensitive and disrespectful — but beyond that, who really cares? In the end it’s meaningless. Nobody’s forcing anybody to convert and the jokes on them anyway because Jews don’t believe in a Christian-style afterlife. By making a big deal out of this, Jewish leaders only seem to be acknowledging that there’s some validity in all this.
Personally, I’d rather have Mormons try to convert me after I’m dead than have Jehovah’s Witnesses wake me up by ringing my doorbell on Sunday mornings when I’m alive.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Judaism, Mormons, afterlife, posthumous baptism by proxy, religion | 102 responses so far
