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Okay, time for another rant from yours truly.

I just received this comment from Taylor on the infamous Mormon Temple article I wrote over a year ago. This article, I am convinced, is the ONLY article believing LDS members read. I never receive comments from them about my photos or my retro fashion sense, only the temple. Whats up with that? This blog is more than that article, people! Flip the page, read more... for the love of God, read something more current.

Anyway, this is what Taylor had to say:

When you say the things about baptisms for the dead and how the mormon church BAPTIZES the people, that is not accurate. What happens when someone gets baptized in proxy for a dead person, that person in Heaven gets to choose if they want to join or not. They have the agency to do that.

Taylor,

Do you really think that I don't know what Baptism for the dead is? I have been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints my ENTIRE LIFE. I have heard the same reasons behind this practice that you have. Chances are, I am older than you and I have heard them MORE than you.

Baptism by proxy is still baptism, is it not?

Here is the thing...

You don't have the right to do that. Period. It's not that hard to understand. You don't have the right to do it.

Religion is a deeply personal thing. Deciding to baptize someone who is deceased and has no ability to agree to the process is wrong. Even in my most TBM teenager days I argued with this. It's so uncool.

The fact that you say that they can accept or decline the baptism in the afterlife doesn't really mean much. That is taking the spotlight away from you and putting it in the hands of the deceased to who made their own decisions in life and lived how they saw fit.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has come under fire (again) for baptizing Holocaust victims after agreeing to stop the practice. The church gave their word and they lied. Nice. Really nice. These people died for their beliefs and the church has the nerve to arrogantly believe they know what is best for them in the afterlife?

I can't believe I stayed in this church as long as I have.

Andee

P.S. I just watched the finale of America's Next Top Model and Tyra Banks is really starting to scare me. Holy crap.