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.

I believe ancestry.com is a Mormon business, possibly started with this in mind. They purchased many public domain genealogy lists from Europe and Scandinavia to add to their databases, so in principle they have millions of names to baptize, including probably mine. I haven’t felt any tingles, but who knows. They could spread this out for a long time if they wished, or they could write a script to do it in a millisecond.