re: #280 Obdicut

I think the deal with the Mormon baptism is that most religions have this kind of deal where they don’t pay too much attention to the fact that they’re all asserting each other are damned heretics who are doomed unless they convert, and the Mormons are just being more honest and upfront about it— and saying that that chance to convert doesn’t end with death.

I raised the issue earlier that by using names the Mormons quickly reach a point where they’re only baptizing those people who were famous or successful enough to have their names end up in history books. If they were interested in saving all of humanity they’d issue one blanket, massively inclusive baptism for all of humanity, from ditch diggers to kings and everyone in between. Instead the way they do it comes off as elitist, maybe unintentionally but inherently so. It’s like they’re trying to arrange a really interesting dinner party in the afterlife and have arrogated themselves to keepers of the official list of whose invited.