EH> DOUG POWLESS -> ED HULETT wrote:
EH>  EH>>>>>> BTW, have you gone to CVS and bought
your Obama "Hope and
EH>  DP> Change"
EH>  EH>>>>>> Chia?

EH>  RC>>>>> Helleffinno, perfect waste of pottery.

EH>  EH>>>> It's amazing what people will buy, though.

EH>  RS>>> Yeah, even asinine religions that baptize dead people.

EH>  EH>> What church baptizes dead people?

EH>  DP> I believe that some groups within the Mormon religion do that.

EH> I'm LDS (Mormon) and we don't baptize dead people, we baptize live people in
EH> proxy for their dead ancestors (those who did not have a chance to accept the
EH> gospel in life).

Yes, that's what I meant (and should have said).  

EH> The Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (popularly called the Mormon
EH> Church) is not a collection of groups within a religion. We are *Christians*
EH> first and are referred to as Mormon because of the name of only one
part of the
EH> scriptures we have. We also have the King James Bible and other scriptures.

I'll take your word for it.  I picked up on the idea of sects within 
LDS from Wikipedia, which as we all know has to be the gospel truth.  I 
mean if it's printed there you can *trust* it, you know?  This phrase in 
particular jumped out at me: "Baptism for the dead is also practiced by 
several other current groups in the Latter Day Saint movement."

Which was the first time I'd ever heard that the LDS might be composed 
of more than one group.
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