Report: Mormons Posthumously Baptize Anne Frank (this past Saturday)

[Johnny Rico]

100. Hm...I think we still have poor analogies.

But my RESPONSE (and that is what I am doing here, responding) is that the mere act of voicing that view is somewhat insulting in the same way (Not the same situation, but the same WAY) as it would be to tell a black person that they shouldn't be offended by the suggestion that they should be good at dancing or the suggestion that a homosexual woman just needs to meet the right guy, or something like that.

In each of these cases you would be speaking of something that is demonstrably not true (dancing & meeting the right guy)...whereas in the case of the Mormons baptizing Anne Frank, it is something that they have done...they conducted their rituals and said all the appropriate magic words. Whether or not it had the slightest effect is, of course, totally unverifiable (convenient, that).

You have every right to be offended by this, or even by my indifference towards the whole sillly thing. What you don't have is the right not to be offended. I still don't understand how my dismissal of what is (essentially) some witch doctors casting a magic spell is insulting. While I appreciate your efforts to explain it, I guess I still don't "get" it. Allow me to explain via what I think is a good analogy.

I'm part Blackfoot Indian. Were the Mormon church to go to the effort of posthumously baptizing every Blackfoot Indian who had ever lived, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, because what they're trying to do has nothing to do with reality.

So yes, discussion is great and we are STILL discussing. And what I am saying now is part of that discussion.

Which is the whole point of being here, yes?