On 4/13/2009 1:25 AM, JOHNJWILSON wrote to CHINACAT:

-> -> ->  C> But he belongs to a religion that
-> -> ->  C> believes in baptizing the dead to make them all
Mormons. That
-> isn't an
-> -> ->  C> EXTREME form of pushing your religion on somebody?
-> 
-> Yep. After you are dead, they are going to come and MAKE you a Mormon.
-> Bwahhhahahahaha!
-> That'll scare you atheists!!!

You don't care to understand, do you? I've explained it 6 ways from Sunday
but I'll try again.

You and several others keep bleating about RESPECT for other people's
religions. And yet you continue to defend this practice. Let's see if I can
put it in terms you might come close to comprehending.

Let's say you have someone you loved very much, cared for all your life.
Someone you saw frequently and knew quite well. Someone who shared a lot of
things with you. You knew the favorite foods, the way the person felt about
life and death issues. You knew what the person wanted in the way of a
funeral...the church where it was to be held, the music played, whatever. 

Now this person has died and you are in charge of the funeral but you
decide to scrap everything the person wanted, have them cremated and
scatter the ashes to the sound  of rock and roll.

Would you consider that respectful? Why not? the person's dead and wouldn't
have any way of knowing or caring.

It's the same thing with changing their religion after death...it's not
respectful of the person and what they wanted. Or doesn't that count if you
just tack 'religion' on to it?



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