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Princess Diana baptised as a Mormon
Monstersandcritics.com ^ | Feb. 29, 2012

Posted on 02/29/2012 6:04:50 PM PST by Colofornian

Britain's late Princess Diana has been posthumously baptised a Mormon.

The royal - who was killed in a Paris car crash in August 1997 - was 'baptised' by the church after her death, even though she didn't belong to the religion.

Diana - former wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles - was listed by her maiden name, Diana Frances Spencer, with her address as the family seat of Althorp, Northamptonshire.

Her file also includes her birth and death date, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

Other late stars to have been 'baptised' posthumously include Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth.

The Mormon Church believes that in the afterlife no one is beyond redemption, no matter how evil they were, so the list also includes Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Helen Radkey has been investigating the Mormon Church - which is one of the world's fastest growing religions with 14 million followers, almost half in the US.

Using a computer log-on passed to her by a disaffected follower, she researched the databases in the Church's Family History Library and found that the names of hundreds of thousands of dead people had been logged, so they could be baptised as Mormons.


TOPICS: Current Events; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: baptismofdead; ladydi; lds; mormonism; mormons; princessdiana; romney; vulturebaptism; withouttheirchoice
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From the article: Britain's late Princess Diana has been posthumously baptised a Mormon...Other late stars to have been 'baptised' posthumously include Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth.

(I wonder if Monroe is reserved for Joseph Smith as an afterlife wife...what would Emma think...or Joe DiMaggio?)

1 posted on 02/29/2012 6:05:01 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

just out of curiosity...

why would the mormons be doing something that seems so... stupid?


2 posted on 02/29/2012 6:06:47 PM PST by Mr. K (Were the Soviet-Era propogandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
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To: Colofornian

People say they don’t care about Romney’s religion, but I quite frankly don’t want anyone who believes this craziness leading the nation.


3 posted on 02/29/2012 6:07:35 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: Colofornian

If Romney is on the GOP ticket,
these egregious events will be DAILY fodder
on all channels of the MSM.


4 posted on 02/29/2012 6:09:08 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mr. K

So they can claim to be the world’s fastest growing religion, don’t you know.

The article says 14 million are Mormons, but don’t say how many are alive.


5 posted on 02/29/2012 6:10:14 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Colofornian

I can’t understand why people get upset over this stuff. They think they are doing a good thing. What harm are they doing?


6 posted on 02/29/2012 6:15:30 PM PST by DManA
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To: Colofornian

Whats up with this weirdo practice?


7 posted on 02/29/2012 6:15:52 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Colofornian

Well darn. I wish there were a pervasive 24 hour news channel, radio stations galore and a global web, erh, Internet so we could learn about this.


8 posted on 02/29/2012 6:24:30 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: DManA

It doesn’t affect but injures the living for it’s insult of co-opting a loved ones memory with an appendix.

Personally, you wanna pray over my ashes, which will be compressed into golfballs and sent sailing into the ocean... be my guest.Luke 16


9 posted on 02/29/2012 6:27:52 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Colofornian

Good for Diana. Now I know I’ll meet her in heaven. She was still a babe when she crapped out!


10 posted on 02/29/2012 6:28:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Colofornian

Can Whitney Houston be far behind?


11 posted on 02/29/2012 6:30:37 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Ever tried to explain Christianity to a Buddhist?
12 posted on 02/29/2012 6:31:20 PM PST by MindBender26 (New Army SF and Ranger Slogan: Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord.... but He subcontracts!)
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To: Colofornian
The Mormon Church believes that in the afterlife no one is beyond redemption, no matter how evil they were, so the list also includes Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler?

So, the holocaust victims are in mormon heaven with Hitler. And they are there to do what? Be servants to the Mormons in the celestial kingdom?

13 posted on 02/29/2012 6:33:44 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: DManA
I can’t understand why people get upset over this stuff. They think they are doing a good thing. What harm are they doing?

So if you were a Jewish mortician who got a network of worldwide morticians to circumcize dead people...to make them supposed afterlife Jews...why, they think they are doing a "good thing"...would they not? And who would know? (Therefore, in your book, what harm would they be doing?)

Harm:

Millions of Mormon man-hours -- Genealogy -- is rooted in baptizing dead people. Now, genealogy for "roots-searching" is fine, but when "genealogy as ultra time consuming religious obsession" takes over, wouldn't you say it might be good to consider what the apostle Paul has to say about this?

Or do you all just ignore the New Testament?

...stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths AND ENDLESS GENEALOGIES. THESE PROMOTE CONTROVERSIES RATHER THAN GOD'S WORK—which is by faith." (1 Timothy 1:3-4)

But AVOID FOOLISH CONTROVERSIES AND GENEALOGIES...because these are unprofitable and useless. (Titus 3:9)

(Paul says it's useless, provokes controversy, and is not faith-promoting. So even the controversy ignited by protagonist Mormons is distracting)

As for the question, "Does this 'hurt' anyone?" yes it does -- in two prominent ways...

(a) It hurts the living because over-focusing on the dead distracts what we can do in relating to & in caring for the living!.

We can all agree that Jesus talked much about serving the living -- the poor, the widow, the orphan, the lost sheep, right?

So what would happen in the world if all religions obsessed with the dead as much as Mormons do? Obviously, we're not going to "end poverty in our lifetime" (Jesus said, "the poor will always be with you")...but since countless LDS leaders have called the Mormon people self-saviors and saviors of the dead, it's not only a distraction from the poor but delusional.

(b) Since countless LDS leaders have called the Mormon people self-saviors and saviors of the dead, it's not only a distraction from the poor but delusional.

We already have a "Savior of the world" -- we don't need millions more trying to bump Jesus out of that limelight:
* And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be THE Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14)
* They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is THE Savior of the world." (John 4:42)

Last time I looked in the Bible, Christians were supposed to object to idolatry in their culture. And if you don't think that Mormons make baptizers of the dead "saviors" who rival Jesus Christ, you haven't read their leaders' comments on baptism of the dead. For those citations, see: Are Mormon people LITERAL saviors of dead Jews, others? (The OTHER World Series: Vanity)

If you're a Christian or Jew and you conclude "this doesn't harm anyone," you're catering to idolatry -- substitute "saviors" pretending to act in his name.

14 posted on 02/29/2012 6:34:06 PM PST by Colofornian (An anti-FREEPER: That's a poster who says, "Let's elect one socialist to beat another!")
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To: Revolting cat!

I’m hopeful that the Mormons keep this up .... especially babe-wise.

“GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN, BUT BAD GIRLS GO WHEREVER THEY WANT”


15 posted on 02/29/2012 6:34:47 PM PST by magritte (Nevermind)
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To: Vendome

See that doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t now how it insults or co-opts anything. If you don’t belive as they do (and I don’t) then they are just flaping their gums.


16 posted on 02/29/2012 6:36:47 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

No harm. They do believe that Princess Diana can decline the invitation in the great beyond. Kind of like Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on your door, but your dead.


17 posted on 02/29/2012 6:37:24 PM PST by gusty
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To: mylife; Mr. K
just out of curiosity...why would the mormons be doing something that seems so... stupid?[Mr. K]

Whats up with this weirdo practice? [mylife]

See post #14...See vanity link about how Mormons describe themselves as competitors of Jesus as saviors...They really think they act as "saviors" by doing this...

18 posted on 02/29/2012 6:37:49 PM PST by Colofornian (An anti-FREEPER: That's a poster who says, "Let's elect one socialist to beat another!")
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To: mylife
No disrespect to my fellow Christians, but have you ever tried to explain our religion to someone steeped in oneof the Oriental religions.

“There was this guy who was born to a woman to had never had sex, he could raise men from the dead, then he died, but he wasn't really dead....”

It tough.

19 posted on 02/29/2012 6:40:37 PM PST by MindBender26 (New Army SF and Ranger Slogan: Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord.... but He subcontracts!)
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To: Colofornian

Mormons are such silly people. Based on a cult, one that denies the Grace of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. There was nothing for Jesus to complete in the Americas, other than conversion of the lost whom live there!


20 posted on 02/29/2012 6:40:41 PM PST by JSDude1
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