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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
22. Here's your mistake.
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 02:52 PM
Feb 2012

"What you posted as it was stated is insulting to me and probably to others."

This to me, reminds me of a child who is upset that you just sat on their imaginary friend who was just using that chair. "How dare you?! mr. Binky was sitting there first!" Which, by extension, makes this whole thing about people getting upset over other people baptising people who are dead into a wacky ball-pit religion, very similar to third-graders screaming at each other over which pokémon could beat all the others in a fight.

I understand you cannot see the silliness of this whole thing. That you can't understand that even from a position of "faith," it's ludicrous (what, does the Mormon Church have the magic power to overrule YHWH?) However, please don't act as if I have to respect you for your lack of ability.

"You have to respect my opinion that Nazis live in the hollow earth!"
"You have to respect my inability to understand basic biology!"
"You have to respect my belief that Obama will institute death panels!"
See? "I believe something!" does NOT translate into "You have to be respectful of what I believe!"

It looks to me as if you are wasting a LOT of energy and effort on ranting about the idea of someone's immortal soul being sent to the planet Kolob, when you COULD be, I dunno, making yourself a tasty snack or something.

Mormons baptized slain reporter Daniel Pearl [View all] Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 OP
Apparently, to some "enlightened" people, we shouldn't be offended by this practice. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #1
The Mormons are trying Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #3
As I said, I have been told I shouldn't be offended. I have no right to be offended. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #4
It your right to get your bowels in an uproar. TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #6
Why shouldn't it matter to them? Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #8
Sorry, but you don't get to decide what should or shouldn't matter to others. 11 Bravo Feb 2012 #10
Where did I write that? TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #12
Where did you write that? Ummm ... that would be where you typed ... 11 Bravo Feb 2012 #19
That's my opinion not a command telling anyone what to do. TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #23
It does matter. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #24
I'm tired of the phrase "manufactured outrage." It means that some people's feelings matter more yardwork Feb 2012 #37
Someone else who seldom posts has it spelled correctly. So I'm stuck with it. TexasProgresive Mar 2012 #42
That's what I figured. yardwork Mar 2012 #43
Do you think it actual *does* anything? Matariki Feb 2012 #27
It's irrelevant. It is arrogant and disrespectful, as you also said. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #30
"Arrogant and disrespectful" carry meanings. yardwork Feb 2012 #38
Do you know they also Baptized the Earth? Ichingcarpenter Feb 2012 #2
Just to be clear, Joseph Fielding Smith is not the founder of Mormonism. white_wolf Feb 2012 #40
Religion is some goofy shit Scootaloo Feb 2012 #5
That is your opinion. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #7
"there are a lot of people who would gladly do you harm" snooper2 Feb 2012 #13
I guess you missed the deth threats Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #15
Did somebody go out and pick the girl up a shotgun? snooper2 Feb 2012 #18
What's with the racist photo? geardaddy Feb 2012 #35
Here's your mistake. Scootaloo Feb 2012 #22
Cool, another newbie vying for the title of "Hippest, most Righteous, Lefty Dude on the Internet!" 11 Bravo Feb 2012 #25
Not only is this unethical by "baptizing" without consent of the subjects, no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #9
How is it unethical? metalbot Feb 2012 #16
Baptizing dead people is like shooting fish in a barrel. No challenge and no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #21
So do you believe that Mormon postmortem baptism is efficatious? TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #26
The baptism itself doesn't affect the dead. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #29
^This geardaddy Feb 2012 #39
Only if they let it-It has no power except what others give it. n/t TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #41
I hope they know about Stephen Colbert's reciprocal proxy circumcision of dead Mormons. tanyev Feb 2012 #11
Wait, so if I posthumously baptize my dead dog as a cat, will that have the same effect? truebrit71 Feb 2012 #14
Well said. +1 nt. hifiguy Feb 2012 #20
So why don't the Mormons, every single day, baptize *everyone* who died that day? Nye Bevan Feb 2012 #17
It's a bit more nefarious than that HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #32
" it's the disrespect that offends." Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #33
Is it me, or do they really seem to concentrate on converting Jewish people... joeybee12 Feb 2012 #28
I am not sure. I know they do it to others, as well. Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #31
Could we just hearing about them more... joeybee12 Feb 2012 #34
Apparently, they recently baptized Anne Frank geardaddy Feb 2012 #36
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