re: #300 goddamnedfrank

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.

No can do. The very nature of baptism is such that it must be individual.

I think this goes for all religions. When that Slavic Prince (coming up blank on the name) herded all of his people down into the river, they all had to go.