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SCantiGOP

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7. I thought they had stopped this?

Reply to Siwsan (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:36 PM

Feb 2018

They were called out for it years ago by some Jewish groups, and I think that backed them off a bit.
Talk about irrational - they apparently believe that the life you live isn't as important as somebody years later performing a ritual in your name. I guess their god is the ultimate nit-picking bureaucrat.

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Mormons Consider 4 Jewish Shooting Victims For Baptism Rite [View all] EllieBC Feb 2018 OP

What a vile and disrespectful practice Siwsan Feb 2018 #1

This gives the term "vile and disrespectful" a whole COLGATE4 Feb 2018 #3

I thought they had stopped this? SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #7

Grossly disrespectful MFM008 Feb 2018 #2

How come nobody complains about THIS KIND of religious discrimination? DetlefK Feb 2018 #4

A religion founded in 1832... czarjak Feb 2018 #11

This is all so hard to understand...why...they can explain why to me until their faces turn asiliveandbreathe Feb 2018 #5

Ancestry.com is part of my longtime concern about this practice. EllieBC Feb 2018 #10

Mormons, what a cult! Canoe52 Feb 2018 #6

Being baptized after you are dead CanonRay Feb 2018 #8

it makes the Mormons feel good- and superior. demigoddess Feb 2018 #9