re: #311 Jimmah

Exactly. It’s a public insult to the families of the dead. You don’t have to believe that their souls are being interfered with to find it offensive.

But so is the Catholic belief that all my non-Catholic ancestors are damned unless in the last moment of their life they accepted Catholicism. And likewise even the soft and plush Presbyterians are jerks in that they think that my ancestors are saved, but that they converted after death and realized the truth of Presbyterianism.

It’s all the same bundle of insult and “We’re right, you’re wrong”, and I don’t get why the Mormons get singled out. In their case, they’re actually offering a choice to the dead, and so they’re, to me, one step ahead of a lot of other faiths.