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Me: Joseph Smith uses macabre setting – a funeral sermon – to first introduce the doctrine of necro-baptism

You:
"macabre setting", really? Necro-baptism? No where in the LDS scripture does the word "necro" appear anywhere.

So you're suddenly hypersensitive about a word that just means "the dead?" What? Lds never use the word, "dead?"

But, hey, thanks for reminding me that I actually did a "break-out" broader on this subject two years ago: Smith used Lds funerals to introduce necro-baptism, 'becoming gods' [The OTHER World Series: Vanity]

Me:: Joseph Smith becomes obsessed with the dead:

Your response: Joseph pondering on dead, in your words makes him "obsessed with the dead".

Well, it helps if you don't wrest my commentary away from the content: Lds "apostle" Boyd Packer, 1980 book, The Holy Temple:
"The Prophet Joseph Smith...had received the revelations (sections 124, 127, 128, and 132) which pertain directly to this work.” [Re: the dead] “And during the last part of his life he said, 'This subject was upon my mind more than any other.'"

So the supreme attention-getter of ANY subject of Joseph's last 2 or 3 years becomes in your mind mere "ponderin'"...

And so the fact that he was more fixated upon the dead (ya know, those 'necro-ized' ones) than ANYBODY alive makes it sound like the image of Joseph you would like to portray...
...was simply a flesh-and-blood Auguste Rodin statue version (we've seen "The Thinker" statue...hand on chin)...
...philosophically ponderin' away...
...not realizing that what he was overly fascinated with happened to be more "stiff" than the marble Rodin's statue was made out of!

So you're suddenly hypersensitive about a word that just means "the dead?" What? Lds never use the word, "dead?"

So I'm "hypersensitive" when I call you out for an out right lie?

"just means "the dead?"

And here's another ugly lie. Necro is known through out literature as "evil" or "evil sorcerer". It's short for "Necromancer" or "Necromancy". It's a dark art. Equating myself and other Latter-day Saints with anything "necro" is guilt by association. It's a foul and low thing to do Colofornian.

Well, it helps if you don't wrest my commentary away from the content..

You're the one who used the word "obsessed" along with other hyperbolic phrases. Kind of like your use of the offensive word "necro" to describe me.

I guess you know you're over the top or you wouldn't be so "hypersensitive" about be called out for it.

So the supreme attention-getter of ANY subject of Joseph's last 2 or 3 years

So you consider any length of study to be "obsessed" with something? Obsession is considered an unhealthy mental state. Do doctors study medicine or are they obsessed with it? Is anyone that spends their life seeking after God, obsessed? Again you're using innuendo and lies to paint a fearful picture of me to the reader.

Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ command all men to love one another and not bear false witness against each other.